Cologne Jazzweek: Sebastian Gramss – Meteors

A meteorite is a cosmic solid body that has passed through the earth's atmosphere and crashed to earth. The majority of these meteorites will land on the Cologne Jazzzweek stage when the bass virtuoso Sebastian Gramss, who lives and teaches in Cologne, presents his album MessageT Outer Space, released in 2023, with his septet of the same name. Meteors is a kind of chamber music core that he spun off from his large-scale formation States Of Play in 2022. The inscribed information from the universe may help to somehow save the terrestrial age of the Anthropocene. Gramss sees his spectrally unfolding soundscapes as a "cinematic sound event": sounds that become film images, between improvisation, composed surfaces and experimental explorations. The Australian trombonist Shannon Barnett, who teaches as a professor in Cologne and, like Gramss, was awarded the German Jazz Prize in 2022, will also be taking part.