A-Trane
The A-Trane is a jazz club founded in autumn 1992 in Berlin-Charlottenburg (Bleibtreustrasse 1, corner Pestalozzistrasse). It is one of the Berlin jazz clubs with an international program. It is open daily, mostly with a daily changing program. A jam session "Jazz after Midnight" takes place on Saturdays. The club can accommodate 80 to a maximum of 100 guests who sit at tables around the stage, making it relatively small (the stage is around 12 square meters). It has also been one of the venues for the JazzFest Berlin for a long time .
The owner has been the Turkish-born ex-graphic artist and basketball player Sedal Sardan , who in 2002 tried to expand to a larger live club (with a restaurant), the "Soultrane" in the "Stilwerk" (from 2003 in a different hand as "Soultrain") continued) and started with the "BeBop Bar" in Kreuzberg in 1991. He also acts regularly as an MC . In April 2013 Sedal Sardan was honored with the German music award “ ECHO Jazz ” as a “sponsor of jazz”.
In April 2011 the A-Trane received the Live Entertainment Award (LEA) in the category "Best Jazz Club in Germany". In 2013, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann presented the club with the venue program award 2013, which this year was awarded for the first time for the “culturally particularly high-quality live music program in 2012”.
In the A-Trane occurred among others Wynton Marsalis , Herbie Hancock , Don Grusin , Lee Ritenour , Lee Konitz , Brad Mehldau , Larry Coryell , Dave Grusin , Diana Krall , Jasper van't Hof , James Carter , Detroit Gary Wiggins , Esbjörn Svensson or Till Brönner up. Various recordings have been released from concerts recorded there, for example by Mo 'Blow , Metro ( Chuck Loeb , Mitchel Forman , Jerry Brooks , Wolfgang Haffner ), DePhazz , Marc Schmolling , Joe Sachse / Ernst Bier or Walter Norris / Leszek Możdżer .
The club is named after John Coltrane (nickname "Trane"), reminiscent of the Duke Ellington standard Take the A-Train .
Web links
- A-Trane website
- Tina Molin: The greats of jazz on a twelve square meter stage . In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 15, 2006
- Johannes Völz: All that Jazz . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 1, 2002
- Video portrait of the A-Trane at Jazz-Online
- A-Trane at jazzdimensions.de
- A-Trane at clubguideberlin.de
- Kulturmacher: The Jazz Optimist ( Memento from October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Engels: For body and soul . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 28, 2002. (Accessed October 16, 2010.)
- ↑ ECHO Jazz Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento from April 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 4, 2019
- ↑ LEA 2011 - The winners have been announced | Music market. February 11, 2013, accessed April 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Venue program award (JazzThing)
- ↑ A-Trane at Discogs
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 26.5 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 12.4 ″ E