José Davila, Nikolaus Neuser, Silke Eberhard, Kay Lübke / Andrey Guryanov & Alexander Markvart at PAS

Monday concert:

quartet:
José Davila – tuba
Nikolaus Neuser – trumpet
Silke Eberhard – saxophone
Kay Lübke – drums

duo:
Andrey Guryanov – electronics, lute
Alexander Markvart – feedback guitar, objects

Entrance in the courtyard, Aufgang II, 1OG
Doors 20:00, music a bit later.

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Silke Eberhard, Nikolaus Neuser, Kay Lübke, and José Davila first came together for a joint project at Jazzfest Berlin 2024. Henry Threadgill composed a piece for his ensemble ZOOID, which includes José Davila, as well as for Potsa Lotsa XL, to which the other musicians belong. The work was developed over an intensive week and premiered at the festival.
Building on this collaboration, they reunited last year and went into the studio with Potsa Lotsa XL. The resulting album will be released in early autumn this year.
Now, they come together again as a free quartet, drawing on their shared experiences.

Jose Davila – tubist, trombonist, arranger, composer and recording artist –  is a versatile New York-based musician whose work spans a broad spectrum of musical genres. A native of Puerto Rico, Davila received his formal musical training from The University of Connecticut and Mannes College of Music. Davila has worked with Ray Charles, Andrew Hill, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Marc Anthony, Eddie Palmieri, Butch Morris, along with The Lincoln Center Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Arturo O’Farrill Big Band, American Symphony Orchestra, and New York City Opera Orchestra. Davila has worked with Henry Threadgill for over a quarter century, including as an original member of Zooid, which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for their recorded work “In for a Penny, In for a Pound.” He is also a member in bands led by guitarist Liberty Ellman, alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, pianist Jason Moran and trombonist Ray Anderson. His has been instrumental in expanding the tuba’s role as an integrated rhythm-melodic instrument and a front-line solo voice. Additionally, his playing on trombone can be heard on the Grammy-nominated salsa recordings “Un Gran Dia en El Barrio” from The Spanish Harlem Orchestra and “Remebranzas” and “Siguiendo la Tradicion” by the Soneros del Barrio.

The Berlin-based saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Silke Eberhard moves between jazz, improvisation, and contemporary music. Her work is shaped by an engagement with musical structures, sonic possibilities, and spontaneous interaction.
In her own ensembles – including the Silke Eberhard Trio and Potsa Lotsa – she focuses on both original compositions and the music of Eric Dolphy. In addition to these projects, she is active in various formations and collaborates regularly with musicians from diverse stylistic backgrounds. Improvisation as an open dialogue often plays a central role in her work.
Her music unfolds in many settings – from solo to large ensemble – and balances expressive freedom with textural clarity. Interdisciplinary projects with theater, visual arts, and dance further expand this approach.
Tours and concert travels have taken her to all continents (except Antarctica!), and her work is documented on more than 50 albums. In 2020, she received the Jazzpreis Berlin for her artistic work.
www.silkeeberhard.com
www.potsalotsa.com

Nikolaus Neuser is a trumpeter, improviser, and composer based in Berlin. His primary focus is on exploring the intersections between jazz, free improvisation, contemporary music, and transdisciplinary projects. He studied at the Folkwang University in Essen with Uli Beckerhoff. He currently works with I Am Three, the duos noiserkroiserand and duospiracy. 
Nikolaus Neuser has performed and/or recorded with numerous artists, including Matana Roberts, Maggie Nicols, Baby Sommer, Benny Bailey, Joe Morris, Matthew Herbert, Nate Wooley, Marshall Allen, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Peter Fox, Seeed and can be heard on over 80 CDs to date. Tours and guest appearances have taken him through Europe, to China, Thailand, Vietnam, North Africa, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia and Colombia, where he also taught as a guest professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá. 
www.nikolausneuser.com

Kay Lübke came via Frankfurt and Mainz to Berlin at the end of the 90s to study at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. He is a member of numerous projects, together with artists such as Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Uschi Brüning, Uli Gumpert, David Liebman, Majid Bekkas, Henrik Walsdorf, Christof Sänger, Georg Boeßner and Uli Kempendorff, all of them documented on CDs and leading to concert tours and festival engagements in other European countries, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Azerbaijan, China, Canada and the USA. He shared the stage with John Schröder, Demba Nabe, Till Brönner, Shabaka Hutchings, Richie Cole, Kris Davis, Lyambiko and Gitte Hænning, among others. He is also active at various Berlin theatres, including the Volksbühne with the Sir Henry Trio, the Schaubühne am Lehniner-Platz, the Festival Spielzeit Europa, the Berliner Ensemble and Tanzplan Dresden. In 2008 he won the Berlin Senate’s Studio Prize with the band Croomp and in 2009 with Stephen Brandon, and in 2013 again with his own project Slowboy (with Jan von Klewitz and Wolfgang Roggenkamp).