Jazz at Green Room: Lucca Keller "open excess" feat. János Löber

The "open excess" combo's trademark is a bubbling joy of playing combined with a lot of humor. The three musicians first came together for the RoboLAB Festival 2021 at Odonien in Cologne. They discovered their shared fascination for music that is created in the moment. "open excess" play original compositions in the tradition of Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Roy Hargrove. For their concerts, they like to collaborate with various guest musicians.

The pianist and composer Lucca Keller is a colorful dog in the NRW jazz scene. He is a stylish border crosser who likes to break free from harmonic guidelines, which he also proves on his current solo album "mood of regrowing". The list of his collaborations is almost endless.

Till Menzer, a busy drummer from the Cologne scene, studied jazz and traditional oriental percussion at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar and at the ITÜ-Istanbul. His band projects, the Horst Hansen Trio, FL!M, Naheli and Isaac Vacuum, have taken him all over Europe for several years.

Bassist Torben Schug studied jazz and popular music in Enschede, Amsterdam and Cologne. The focus of his work as a musician and lecturer is to give people access to music from a wide variety of genres. To this end, he brings music to places where it tends to be underrepresented: prisons, asylum centers, kindergartens, hospitals and public squares.