Jazz at JAKI: Lisa Wilhelm Quartett

feat. special guest

Gone are the days when drumming bandleaders mostly took center stage. The young Stuttgart drummer and composer Lisa Wilhelm - winner of the Soloist:innen Prize of the Young German Jazz Award in 2023 - belongs to a generation that thinks in a group-oriented and serviceable way, leads sensitively from the background and surprises with her sensitive compositions. On this evening, the string quartet features a special guest on vocals!

With her new album So Close, Lisa Wilhelm and her quartet are fulfilling a long-cherished dream: the recordings were made in collaboration with a string quartet and three very different great singers - from Hamburg to Chicago.

Her debut album Potpourri - quoted not stolen was named one of the Jazz Albums of 2023 by WDR and was also NDR Jazz Album of the Week in February 2023. The second album So Close will be released in May 2025. The lyrical, melodic jazz of the debut album is complemented by dreamy pop music and stories that life writes: about dreams, hopes, fears and the love of films, books and loved ones.