Lisa Hofmaniger – klarinet & soprano saksofon / bass clarinet & soprano saxophone
Alexander Fitzthum – piyano / piano
Judith Schwarz davul / drums


With the contributions of the Austrian Embassy in Ankara, First Gig Never Happened is participating to the festival and sharing their music inspired by the most important names of jazz: Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus. We appreciate Samm’s Bistro for the hosting.

The first program of the band, whose first gig apparently never happened, takes up the compositional aspects of the old masters and transforms them with new arrangements into their own musical language. The trio with bass clarinet or soprano saxophone, organ, Rhodes or piano and extended drums, may see the icons as pathfinders, but never lets them get in the way. Rather, their inspiration, their "spirit", "energy, passion and pleasure", as the band itself calls it, paves the way for new ideas and improvisations.