The trio with Polish pianist Vladyslav Sendecki was originally announced, but he had to cancel this small concert tour for health reasons. Harry Sokal and Ronnie Burrage have known each other for many years and have also worked together on various projects, e.g. on Jean-Paul Bourelly, Harry Sokal, Lonnie Plaxico, Ronnie Burrage "Mag Five'" 1998. Sendecki was also a member of Sokal's band "Full Circle" at around the same time. What's more, the master saxophonist doesn't have a long way to travel. So it's only logical that he steps in at short notice. Exciting! CH

Ronnie Burrage has been one of the busiest drummers on the scene since the 1970s. Exposed to his first musical influences as a child through his family's choir and musical tastes, he began playing drums and became a professional while still in his teens. At 17, he moved to New York, where he gained a considerable reputation. He was a founding member of the legendary group Defunkt, played with McCoy Tyner for three years and continued to work with Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Jackie McLean and Woody Shaw. In his first own band he gathered Kenny Kirkland, Marcus Miller, Branford Marsalis; he played concerts around the globe at the biggest festivals and in the best clubs. In addition to his main instrument, drums, he is also a keyboardist, composer, producer and singer.

Darryl Hall is a jazz double bass player living in France. He learned his instrument the old-school way, self-taught, and only years later studied composition at the Manhattan Music School. This path enabled him to find a more intuitive approach to jazz music. It did him no harm at all, as he is now one of the most sought-after bassists in the world and even won the Oscar of jazz, the Thelonious Monk Bass Competition, in 1996. He has played and continues to play with Ravi Coltrane, Regina Carter, Didier Lockwood, Antonio Farao, Tineke Postma and many more.

Harry Sokal, most recently successful throughout Europe with his project Depart (ACT Music, with Heiri Känzig and Jojo Mayer), is one of the most important post-Coltrane saxophonists in Europe. A Who's Who of recent jazz history that he has accompanied, or who accompanied him, bears witness to this: as a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra as well as in the legendary Art Farmer Quintet from 1979 to 1999, as a partner of Art Blakey, Dave Holland, Wynton Marsalis, Terje Ryptal, Joe Zawinul, Harry Pepl, and many others. In 2005 he was awarded the Hans Koller Prize as Musician Of The Year. Harry Sokal about himself: "Thanks to 25 years of collaboration with Art Farmer and many other personalities and formations of the international jazz scene such as the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Carla Bley Big Band, Art Blakey, Idris Muhammad, Joe Zawinul, Jean Paul Bourelly, Dave Holland, Michel Portal, Daniel Humair, Harry Pepl, Jene Jackson, Andy Mc Kee, etc., all of whom have become a decisive part of my musical life, I have come to know all the facets and secrets of jazz. In all these projects, as well as in my own formations, the roots of jazz and my innermost melodies and grooves are always in the foreground, regardless of whether it's be-bop, soul, funk, classical or free improvisation. It is an addiction ... to experience myself, to surprise myself and to take my listeners with me on this exciting journey.