McPHEE SWELL TOKAR KUGEL
Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone
Steve Swell - trombone
Mark Tokar - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone
Steve Swell - trombone
Mark Tokar - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
Next tour: October/November 2026
Booking: Constanze Schliebs
+49 30 61285671
constanze.schliebs@asianetwork.de
24. Oct 2026 Gdansk (PL) Jazz Jantar
25. Oct 2026 Chemnitz (DE) Neue Sächsische Galerie im Tietz
26. Oct 2026, Vienna (AT), Porgy & Bess
27. Oct 2026, >>> available
28. Oct 2026, Budapest (HU), Opus Jazzclub
29. Oct 2026, Zagreb (HR), Močvara
30. Oct 2026, >>> available
31. Oct 2026, >>> available
03. Nov 2026, Warsaw (PL), Pardon To Tu (w/ special guests)
04. Nov 2026, >>> available
05. Nov 2026, Jena (DE), Café Wagner
>> more dates soon!
Listen to the quartet here:
Booking: Constanze Schliebs
+49 30 61285671
constanze.schliebs@asianetwork.de
24. Oct 2026 Gdansk (PL) Jazz Jantar
25. Oct 2026 Chemnitz (DE) Neue Sächsische Galerie im Tietz
26. Oct 2026, Vienna (AT), Porgy & Bess
27. Oct 2026, >>> available
28. Oct 2026, Budapest (HU), Opus Jazzclub
29. Oct 2026, Zagreb (HR), Močvara
30. Oct 2026, >>> available
31. Oct 2026, >>> available
03. Nov 2026, Warsaw (PL), Pardon To Tu (w/ special guests)
04. Nov 2026, >>> available
05. Nov 2026, Jena (DE), Café Wagner
>> more dates soon!
Listen to the quartet here:
Past Tour in 2025:
April-04, Zarchlin, Gutshaus Zarchlin (DE)
April-05, Vilnius, Improdimensija (LT)
April-06, Warsaw, Pardon To Tu (PL)
April-07, Krakow, Alchemia (PL)
April-08, Lviv, Jam Factory Art Center (UA)
April-10, Weikersheim, W17 (DE)
April-11, Saarbrücken, Festival FreeJazzSaar (DE)
April-13, Brugge, Parazzar (BE)
April-14, Bonn, Zentrifuge (DE)
April-15, Vienna, Martinschlössl (AT)
April-16, Linz, Galerie Maerz (AT)
April-17, Villach, Kulturhof:keller (AT)
"Joe McPhee: The tireless reed player’s multi-decade career serves as a road map of the international avant garde, encompassing performance, recording and cross-genre collaborations." - By Daniel Spicer, WIRE, February 2019
"... Joe McPhee's magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene. He still has one of the most beautiful tones on the planet, even when he’s reaching for jazz’s outer limits." mjd 5/02
"Steve Swell attacks and exploits the instrument's peculiarities as a race car driver would a Ferrari. No wind-blown instrument is more capable of tonal extremes than the trombone, a fact that Swell makes manifest with his howling glissandi and chattering chromaticism, to say nothing of a postbop linearity that would make J.J. Johnson proud. Swell has an extraordinary conventional technique which he puts to quite unconventional use, spiced liberally with an assortment of his own very personal idiosyncrasies." (Jazz Now Magazine, USA)
"Mark Tokar plays double bass with concentrated absorption and utter openness to the act’s contingent events, showing an unwavering focus from which the will of enclosing devotion and wisdom in a single entity transpires." - Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes
"Mark Tokar's larger-than-life tone and impeccable intonation is front-and-center …" - John Vincent Barron, Jazzreview.com
"Klaus Kugel is a model drummer" - Francis Davis, USA
"Drummer Klaus Kugel is one of Central Europe's most articulate modern jazz drummers ... he treads the boundary between inside and outside playing in a particularly incisive way; always listening and never getting caught up in his own considerable chops." - Dave Wayne, AAJ, USA
Photo Credits: Joe McPhee by Photomusix/C.Marx / Steve Swell by Peter Gannushkin / Mark Tokar by Oleg Nitsko / Klaus Kugel by Photomusix/C.Marx
April-04, Zarchlin, Gutshaus Zarchlin (DE)
April-05, Vilnius, Improdimensija (LT)
April-06, Warsaw, Pardon To Tu (PL)
April-07, Krakow, Alchemia (PL)
April-08, Lviv, Jam Factory Art Center (UA)
April-10, Weikersheim, W17 (DE)
April-11, Saarbrücken, Festival FreeJazzSaar (DE)
April-13, Brugge, Parazzar (BE)
April-14, Bonn, Zentrifuge (DE)
April-15, Vienna, Martinschlössl (AT)
April-16, Linz, Galerie Maerz (AT)
April-17, Villach, Kulturhof:keller (AT)
"Joe McPhee: The tireless reed player’s multi-decade career serves as a road map of the international avant garde, encompassing performance, recording and cross-genre collaborations." - By Daniel Spicer, WIRE, February 2019
"... Joe McPhee's magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene. He still has one of the most beautiful tones on the planet, even when he’s reaching for jazz’s outer limits." mjd 5/02
"Steve Swell attacks and exploits the instrument's peculiarities as a race car driver would a Ferrari. No wind-blown instrument is more capable of tonal extremes than the trombone, a fact that Swell makes manifest with his howling glissandi and chattering chromaticism, to say nothing of a postbop linearity that would make J.J. Johnson proud. Swell has an extraordinary conventional technique which he puts to quite unconventional use, spiced liberally with an assortment of his own very personal idiosyncrasies." (Jazz Now Magazine, USA)
"Mark Tokar plays double bass with concentrated absorption and utter openness to the act’s contingent events, showing an unwavering focus from which the will of enclosing devotion and wisdom in a single entity transpires." - Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes
"Mark Tokar's larger-than-life tone and impeccable intonation is front-and-center …" - John Vincent Barron, Jazzreview.com
"Klaus Kugel is a model drummer" - Francis Davis, USA
"Drummer Klaus Kugel is one of Central Europe's most articulate modern jazz drummers ... he treads the boundary between inside and outside playing in a particularly incisive way; always listening and never getting caught up in his own considerable chops." - Dave Wayne, AAJ, USA
Photo Credits: Joe McPhee by Photomusix/C.Marx / Steve Swell by Peter Gannushkin / Mark Tokar by Oleg Nitsko / Klaus Kugel by Photomusix/C.Marx