Luca Sisera ROOFER Jazz Quintet Tour
Mainland China
September 6, 2017
Eastshore Live Jazz Cafe, Beijing
At 9:30 pm
September 7, 2017
ON THE WAY, Hefei
At 9:00 pm
September 8, 2017
Blue Valley, Changsha
At 8:30 pm
September 10, 2017
JZ Club, Guangzhou
At 9:30 pm
September 11, 2017
JZ Club, Hangzhou
At 9:30 pm
September 12, 2017
Dusk Dawn Club, Beijing
At 7:30 pm
The quintet ROOFER plays contemporary, liberated jazz music, but always keeps a sublime eye on the tradition of classic jazz. The compositions on the debut album “Prospect” in 2015 all came about in an apartment in Brooklyn NY in 2013 and shine from the first moment on, due to their impressive complexity. They bear witness to great vigor and verve, trickery and groove, passionate improvisation as a collective and mutual swerve through rapid unison parts.
Austere sound collages and wonderfully hypnotic moods, but also fast-paced worlds of swing are experienced here. An exceedingly agile band that performs this balancing act with apparent ease and a playful looseness, without ever seeming arbitrary or accommodating. An open-minded approach is taken here, with unsated curiosity, invention, pleasure in the unforeseeable, and ears wide open. Together with their audience, the five “ROOFER” musicians, all of whom are highly experienced, delight in scaling their musical edifice, so as to enjoy the breathtaking view at a dizzying height.
The quintet was founded by Swiss double-bass player Luca Sisera from Grisons. His companions are Michael Jaeger (tenor sax / clarinet), Silvio Cadotsch (trombone), Yves Theiler (piano) and Michi Stulz (percussion). ROOFER is one of the six recipients of “High Priority Jazz Promotion”, Pro Helvetia’s three-year support program covering the 2017-2019 period.
LUCA SISERA – Bass & Composition
For a good 10 years, Luca Sisera has been a sought-after bassist in the Swiss jazz and improvisation scene. Musically, he likes to operate in the charged environment between composition and improvisation. He is frequently seen on stage at various festivals and jazz clubs across Europe in over 100 concerts each year, whereby some tours and concerts have already taken him to Egypt, China and America. To date, he has been involved in over 30 audio releases. Most recently, Luca Sisera has also started working as a composer for his own quintet “Luca Sisera ROOFER”. As interdisciplinary projects have always interested him, Luca Sisera has also worked with authors, cabaret artists, dancers and visual artists, among others, as well as on theatre and film productions.
MICHAEL JAEGER – Tenor Saxophone & Clarinet
Michael Jaeger has been active in the Swiss and European jazz scene since 2004. He is quick to attract attention via the individuality of his improvisation style and his playing concept. To date, his jazz musicians’ collective Michael Jaeger KEROUAC has released three CDs of Jaeger’s music on the renowned label Intakt Records and has played concerts all over Europe. His tours have also taken him to Egypt, the USA and China. Numerous projects in the fields of dance, theatre, electronics, film and literature. Collaborations with Tom Rainey (dr), Greg Osby (as), Urs Leimgruber (ss, ts), Hans Koch (basscl), Axel Dörner (tp), Martin Schütz (cello), Norbert Pfammatter (dr), Philipp Schaufelberger (git), Christian Weber (b), Fabian Gisler (b) and many others.
MAURUS TWERENBOLD – Trombone
Maurus Twerenbold, born in Zug (CH) in 1988, studied jazz trombone at Hochschule Luzern Musik with Nils Wogram, Adrian Mears and Gerry Hemingway as well as composition with Ed Partyka. After completing the master studies in performance in Luzern he continued his studies with an additional masters degree in pedagogy at Jazzcampus Basel. As an exchange student he studied one year at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Eric van Lier and many other great masters. Maurus leads his own project „Maurus Twerenbold Non Harmonic Quartet“ and plays as a sideman in different groups like the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, the Gamut collective, the David Regan Orchestra and the Lukas Brügger Jazz Orchestra. He is awardee of the Friedl-Wald-Stiftung 2012 and part of the „Generations Unit 2014“, the awarded band of the international Generations Jazz Festival 2014 in Frauenfeld (CH).
YVES THEILER – Piano
Yves Theiler has started his on-stage activity already in his teen years and has been perceived as a prodigious musical talent, as he got selected to join the Swiss K&S Art high school for young talented instrumentalists. Devoted to both composition and improvisation, he is focusing mainly on new composing and arranging concepts for the jazz piano trio format. All along his career he was constantly exposed to different ethnic musical influences, which are reflected in his works. His piano trio “YVES THEILER TRIO” is more than a distinguishable mirroring of his musical talent and has brought him not only local and international recognition, but as well numerous awards and prices. Yves Theiler is as well the recipient of several scholarships and awards, an acknowledgment of his talent. Moreover, he is a highly demanded sideman in the European Jazz scene and maintains an open minded attitude towards different musical styles.
MICHI STULZ – Drums
Michi Stulz has been active in the European jazz scene for a good ten years. Already at an early stage, his sensitive, intuitive approach to music and his ability to always play in the service of the music made him a very highly sought-after drummer for a wide range of different groups, such as Christoph Irniger Pilgrim, Lisette Spinnler Quartet, Stefan Aeby Trio, Tobias Preisig, Luca Sisera ROOFER, R.I.S.S. and many more.
His involvement in concerts has taken him around the world. He has played in concerts and on tours in Japan, China, South Korea, Malaysia, Peru, Syria, Kosovo and all of Europe. He can currently be heard on over 30 audio releases.
