Today is Jan Roder’s birthday
Today is Jan Roder’s birthday, and to mark the occasion, I’d like to share a video from our early days—one that very few people have…
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Sven-Åke Johansson
The first time I shared a stage with Sven-Åke was in 1990, at Günter Christmann’s small Vor Ort festival at the Eisfabrik in Hannover. I…
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The Remedy & Zeena Parkins – Live at Jazzhaus Festival 1995
After recently sharing a short excerpt from a 30-year-old concert with The Remedy and Zeena Parkins on social media, I was genuinely surprised by the…
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Industriesalon on Trouble in the East
I first met Marina Džukljev in 2019 at a Klub Demboh performance, when Joel Grip had invited her as a guest.I was immediately intrigued the…
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Interview in JazzPodium, Germany’s oldest jazz magazine
The April/May 2025 issue of JazzPodium, Germany’s oldest jazz magazine, features an interview with me conducted by fellow drummer and journalist Niklas Wandt in early…
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Pete “LaRoca” Sims
I just happened to find out that yesterday was Pete “LaRoca” Sims’ 87th birthday. When I played with Dave Liebman and Bob Lenox at the…
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So I’m playing drums in a movie that won an Oscar for Best Original Score.
It’s a surreal feeling to hear my own sounds that I know so well incorporated into a movie on the big screen. I imagine that’s what…
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In the current issue of We Jazz magazine
In the current issue of We Jazz magazine, Peter Margasak reviews three of my recent releases.About the double CD GRIENER/RODER: BE OUR GUEST, with which…
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I don’t consider myself a composer
I don’t consider myself a composer, but over the years I have composed a few pieces from time to time. In 2015 I recorded one…
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Today is Ulrich Gumpert’s 80th birthday.
Today is Ulrich Gumpert’s 80th birthday.We first played together in the mid-nineties, shortly after I moved to Berlin, on the initiative of bassist Matthias Bauer,…