From Thursday 1 October through Saturday 3 October, Kunstfabrik Schlot offers one of the week’s cleanest concert routes: three successive evenings in the 13th EUNIC Jazz Festival, each at 21:00. The series gathers ensembles tied to Malta, Estonia and Lithuania, using the same Berlin-Mitte room as a fixed point while the instrumental language shifts each night. EUNIC Berlin’s festival framework gives the run a practical coherence: the participating groups present original music, alongside pieces connected to their respective musical backgrounds and room for improvisatory exchange.[1][2][3][4][5]

Kunstfabrik Schlot is well suited to that close-range format. The club has operated as a jazz venue since 1993 and sits in the Edison Höfe on Invalidenstraße, near Nordbahnhof. Its own listings advise arriving via the individual event pages, and state that doors generally open an hour before the programme. For listeners building a weekend around music with clear personnel, instruments and compositional approaches, staying with this single-room sequence has a strong appeal.[1][2][3][4]

Thursday begins with the Eberhard / Brincat / Jahnel / Berns / Marcelli Quintett, a Germany–Malta meeting led by saxophonist Silke Eberhard and Maltese trumpeter Adrian Brincat. Benedikt Jahnel joins on piano, Pepe Berns on bass and Andrea Marcelli on drums. The Schlot programme frames the group as contemporary European jazz built from originals and compositions carrying colours from the players’ home contexts. Eberhard’s own site identifies her as a Berlin-based saxophonist and composer, with a musical practice that places complex structure alongside incisive instrumental writing.[2][5][6]

Friday’s Estonian post-bop conversation

On Friday 2 October, the Aleksander Paal Quartet featuring Holger Marjamaa brings a four-piece configuration: Paal on saxophone, Marjamaa on piano, Heikko Remmel on bass and Ivars Arutyunyan on drums. The group’s stated centre of gravity is post-bop, with Paal’s writing balancing melody, rhythmic detail and spontaneous interaction. That makes this the most compactly defined bill in the three-night stretch: a working quartet format, individual compositions and a programme shaped by ensemble interplay. The EUNIC overview places the concert within the festival’s Estonian contribution.[3][5]

The attention to personnel matters here. Paal’s page describes him as an Estonian saxophonist, composer and educator based in Tallinn, active across several jazz settings and with established connections to both Remmel and Marjamaa. At Kunstfabrik Schlot, those existing links meet the festival’s broader international setting without dispersing the focus from a single quartet. Friday therefore provides a direct route for listeners drawn to contemporary post-bop vocabulary, where composed material and collective response share the same frame.[3][5]

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Lithuanian guitar closes the run

Saturday 3 October shifts the lead voice to acoustic guitar with the Mindaugas Stumbras Quartett. Stumbras appears with pianist Andrius Savčenko, bassist Niklas Lukassen and drummer-percussionist Andrea Marcelli, who also plays in Thursday’s quintet. The official festival listing describes the project through contemporary jazz and world-music language, while Stumbras’s artist page locates him in Vilnius and foregrounds his work as a Lithuanian jazz guitarist and composer. That recurring presence of Marcelli gives the three evenings one discreet connective thread, even as the lead instrument changes from saxophone and trumpet to guitar.[4][5][7]

The sequence works best as three separate visits, though Thursday through Saturday also form a compact festival passage. Each concert starts at 21:00 at Kunstfabrik Schlot, Invalidenstraße 117, 10115 Berlin. The venue lists admission at €20 regular and €15 reduced for these festival dates, with reserved tickets due for collection 30 minutes before showtime. Recheck the official Kunstfabrik Schlot event pages before travelling, since door, ticket and programme information can change.[1][2][3][4]

Sources

  1. Kunstfabrik Schlot Berlin – Jazz-Club — Kunstfabrik Schlot
  2. 13th EUNIC Jazz Festival: Eberhard / Brincat / Jahnel / Berns / Marcelli Quintett (MT) — Kunstfabrik Schlot
  3. 13th EUNIC Jazz Festival: Aleksander Paal Quartet featuring Holger Marjamaa (EE) — Kunstfabrik Schlot
  4. 13th EUNIC Jazz Festival: Mindaugas Stumbras Quartett (LT) — Kunstfabrik Schlot
  5. “MY UNIQUE JAZZ FESTIVAL #13” – Opening Concert with the Luxembourgish Trio Reis Demuth Wiltgen — Embassy of Luxembourg in Berlin
  6. Silke Eberhard — Silke Eberhard
  7. Music — Mindaugas Stumbras