Uli studied jazz saxophone in Berlin (“Hanns Eisler” School of Music) and New York (City College).

2007 and 2010 saw CD-releases with the Uli Kempendorff Quartet (“Louise” (2010) received a 5 star review in the German magazine Jazzthetik), while in 2013 he released the first record of his newly formed group “Field” on the Swiss label Unit Records. He is a founding member of the “Berlin Art Orchestra” and initiated the “Serious Series”, a concert series in the former senate reserve (now a gallery) in Kreuzberg. His concerts, collaborations and recordings include artists like “Little” Jimmy Scott (New York-Berlin Festival 2007), Uli Gumpert Workshop Band, Toby Delius, Ignaz Schick, Mike Pride, Henrik Walsdorff, John Schröder, Andrew D´Angelo, Eivind Opsvik, Johannes Lauer, Stefan Schultze, Tomson Highway, Patty Cano, Benjamin Weidekamp, Gerlinde Kempendorff, Christian Lillinger, Ari Benjamin Meyer´s “redux orchestra”, Rolf v. Nordenskjöld, DJ Illvibe, Ronny Graupe, Jonas Westergaard and Oli Steidle.

www.ulikempendorff.de

Otis was born 1987 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He studied Jazz and Improvisation at HSM University in Gothenborg and at RMC in Kopenhagen where he first met guitar player Thor Oscar Olsson.
He moved to Berlin in 2007 were his unique tone quickly caught the scene’s attention. Otis is probably one of the most versatile horn players in town and is touring all over Europe with a great variety of groups such as: GOTHEBURG GADJOS, Markus Pesonen Hedectet, Simon Kanzler’s „Talking Hands“ and the band of singer Isabel Sörling Farvel, who was just awarded with the „Jazzkatten“ price as the „Newcomer of the Year 2013“ in Sweden.

Jonas studied classical piano at HfM „Franz Liszt“ in Weimar and UDK Berlin.
The blind pianist is one of the most interesting new discoveries of Berlin’s Jazz Scene and works as a multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger in some of the most different settings one could imagine, reaching from chamber music to rock`n roll, from noise music to jazz.
His insatiable curiosity has led him to work with a large variety of bands such as song poet Dota Kehr’s quartet DOTA, the Noise-Project Nutte & Huhn and Janis Görlich’s trio kleiner dicker mönch. He also performs as a classical solo-pianist and – accordionist.

www.jonas-hauer.de

Henrik studied Jazz, first at Fridhems Folkhögskola in Sweden and later at RMC in Kopenhagen where he first met tenor player Otis Sandsjö. In 2003 he won the „Håkan Hagegård“ Price.
The guitarist currently lives in Kopenhagen, Denmark, were he is working with bands such as the Johanna Elina Group, his own project Penumbra Ensemble and a powerful duo with singer Mia Marlen Berg. He is a member of Janis Görlich’s kleiner dicker mönch and contributed some of his own compositions to the material on the trio’s record “Bei Nacht”.
The self-entitled “Penumbra Ensemble” was released 2014 on LP. It features Henrik’s outstanding qualities as a guitarist, composer and bandleader.

Janis studied Jazz in Berlin (HfM „Hanns Eisler“), Sao Paulo (Conservatório de Tatuí) and New York City (Aaron Copland School of Music). After graduating from HfM in 2006 he worked as a freelancing drummer and released a record entitled “K.illY.ourD.arling” with the band-collective GLÜCKLICH1. Receiving a DAAD scholarship in 2008 he moved to New York were he earned his master’s degree in Jazz-Performance and played with various jazz & avant-garde bands in the city as well as touring with indie pop band WakeyWakey. In 2011 he headed back for Berlin.
Janis is the drummer of Song Poet Dota Kehr and occasionally appears as a sideman of delicately selected other Projects such as: The Magnetic Ghost Orchestra, a trio with Carlos Bica and Carsten Daerr, the POLIVERSAL SOULS, Hans Unstern and The Magnificent Brotherhood among others.

At the same time he is highly active as a composer & bandleader. The debut album of his quintet BUMMELZUG EXPLOSION was released in 2013.
2014 saw him releasing yet another LP as a leader: kleiner dicker mönch “BEI NACHT”, features his Trio with Jonas Hauer on accordion and Henrik Olsson on guitar. His latest record BUMMELZUG EXPEDITION “In die Ferne” is presenting a septet. It will be released in early 2016.

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