Jens Düppe

Jens Düppe is “one of the most innovative representatives of improvised music in Germany” (German Jazzzeitung) and Chris Spector (Midwest Record) talked about Düppe’s first album as “a leading light for modern jazz”. Düppe feels comfortable in the smallest line-ups as well as in large formations and reconciles form and freedom in his drumming. He is an active bandleader. Next to his remarkable multi-instrumental solo album „ego_D“ Düppe has released four albums with his quartet since 2015. The album „Dancing Beauty“ was nominated for the international ECHO Jazz in 2018. In 2019 he was given the highly respected WDR-radio jazz award for improvisation.

Musically, Jens Düppe likes to think out of the box. For the festival ACHT BRÜCKEN Köln, Düppe designed a 45-minutes multimedia performance for choir, instrumentalists and dance together with film-director Peter Schanz. He was commissioned other compositions by the European Church Music Festival or by the Böll Foundation in Berlin.

He taught for the national young talent promotion prize of the German Music Council “Jugend jazzt” and the German Youth Big Band “Bundesjazzorchester”. And worked together with all German radio big bands as with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.