The “Deadly Brothers” delight 350 jazz fans in the night club of the luxury hotel.
The man at the Hammond organ gives the direction of the evening without a long introduction. "We are now playing our own composition with the title: I sensed that the air is still scarce today." 350 jazz fans squeeze into the Night Club of the Bayerischer Hof, it couldn't be warmer in the Blue Spa upstairs and because of the crowds only three seats are planned: for drummer Pete York, for blues guitarist Henrik Freischlader - and for Helge Schneider, who announces: “We are completely improvised. So are the instruments. All bought together in the past 50 years, the old stuff. "
"The Deadly Brothers" is the name of the trio that works on the old stuff until midnight. A jazz evening was announced, but jazz without nonsense is rare with Helge - and it delivers as usual, happily jumps from Beethoven ("You may know") to Haddaway ("I danced with him here once"), praised the audience (" So standard slogans ”) and brushes the daily events lightly. "We have just come from a trip to China," he says, coughing into the microphone: "We want to enjoy the last days or hours with you." Of course, a bit of Brexit must be, York is British after all. "When the formalities are done, we want to play in England in 2031 or so."
And in between the three legends jazz and swing until the elderly woman also seesaws at the bar. "Boogie-Woogie in B", announces Helge, but basically the trio plays what shoots the brilliant Mülheimer through the head: an oblique version of "Waterloo", the classic "Puttin 'on the Ritz" - or the British anthem , At the drum solo in York, 77, Helge combs her hair - and not only worries about Freischlader's guitar amplifier before the break: "We have soldering irons, jacks - and ABC plasters."
No pharmacy aids are needed this evening, on the contrary. The “Deadly Brothers” seem lively - despite their 178 years of life.
