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Great performance of Sven Decker’s Transparency at Zimmermanns.art.beats.burger in Cologne.

The WINTER JAZZ FESTIVAL has firmly engraved itself into the audience’s hearts. This sparkling event at the start of the year surprises, astonishes and inspires people beyond the city and surroundings of Cologne.
Enticing 50 musicians, 19 concerts on 5 stages which are all within walking range. The festival’s backbone is the ‘Stadtgarten’ with its three stages in the concert hall, ‘Studio 672’ as well as its cafe and restaurant. Across from the Venloer Straße are the smaller venues ‘Zimmermann´s’ and ‘Umleitung’ with a more intimate feel.
This sparkly musical display makes it plain obvious to the eyes and ears how diverse and vital the Cologne jazz scene is. It’s a preview into how much can be discovered at those various (jazz) venues in Cologne all year round.
Further information: http://winterjazzkoeln.com/en/

Closely linked to the idea of transparency and reduction is the music of TRANSPARANCY, the new trio by Cologne sax player and composer Sven Decker. Reduction of sound density while simultaneously maximising intensity and transparency in order to develop melodic and compository styles. Those eleven compositions on the current CD ‘Sepia’ are very autobiographic, intense. Complete stories in themselves, sometimes dream-like and melancholic, they sometimes come across eruptive and demanding. Co-musicians Matthias Akeo Nowak and Etienne Nillesen, both firmly established in the Cologne scene, understand how to bring out the essential elements within each composition by the means of a reduced and intense performance. // Matthias Akeo Nowak (cb), Etienne Nillesen (dr), Sven Decker (ts, cl, bcl, mel)
Further information: https://www.facebook.com/sven.decker.754?fref=ts