Jazz sounds move through the stage courtyard

"This is what summer sounds like" was the title of the Jazzy Moments for their concert.

The five-man Germeringer combo did more than fill the stage courtyard of the town hall with summer sound.

A whiff of the New York jazz club wafted from the truck loading ramp, which had been converted into a stage, over the sold-out courtyard.

Germering - Finally playing in front of an audience again, Claudia Dellian (vocals), Alfred Lorenz (saxophone), Dirk Bertram (guitar), Martin Müller (bass) and Volker Exner (drums) felt and audible fun. She hadn't seen each other for a year and a half, neither rehearsed nor performed. Since spring 2020, each of the five had only been able to practice their instrument in a quiet room - that's around half the time that the band, founded in 2018, has even existed in the first place.

But you didn't notice anything in those one and a half hours in the stage yard.

The interaction worked perfectly, the sound was right from the first to the last second.

“I'm a girl who wants to sing” - that's what Claudia Dellian believed in her sung greeting.

With her groovy voice, the Germeringerin took the audience to Harlem (“Take the A train”) and to “Georgia”, and with the help of Van Morrison's “Moondance” even to the moon.

The interaction works great

With obvious pleasure Dirk Betram plucked his guitars, sometimes acoustically, sometimes electrically, sometimes as an accompaniment, sometimes as an epic solo and occasionally with special applause.

Alfred Lorenz also impressed as a cool sock on the saxophone with powerful riffs.

Then again he took the sound back discreetly and let the colleagues in the limelight.

The reliable backbone of the sound was provided by the bass lines from Martin Müller and the rhythms from Volker Exner, who could also make his drums sound like a steam locomotive huffing into the train station.

“We are starved for the artist's bread, the applause,” Claudia Dellian said at the beginning.

The audience donated a good portion of this.