Three Nights, One Rhythm Section Thread at Kunstfabrik Schlot

For the Thursday through Sunday window of October 22–25, 2026, Kunstfabrik Schlot supplies a particularly concentrated reason to stay with one room. Its Thursday-to-Saturday sequence is built from three compact jazz ensembles, each with a distinct bandleader and instrumentation, yet drummer Andrea Marcelli appears across every date. That recurring presence gives the run a practical through-line: listeners can hear one musician move through three different settings over 48 hours, from Florian Menzel’s four-piece on Thursday to Walter Gauchel and Ekkehard Wölk’s quintet on Friday, then Gianni Gagliardi’s Southern Lights Quintet on Saturday. The focus is ensemble work, with pianists, horns, bassists and drums continually reshuffled around an experienced Berlin-based percussionist.^[1][2][3]

Kunstfabrik Schlot has been a Berlin-Mitte jazz club since 1993, after beginning as a small live stage in Prenzlauer Berg. Its present base sits in the Edison-Höfe near Nordbahnhof, a basement room whose iron, stone and wood surfaces are part of its long-established character. That history matters to this week’s selection. The club’s calendar has space for large ensembles, local players, international connections, cabaret and literature, yet this run narrows the lens to working jazz groups at close range. Three nights in succession make the booking identity unusually legible: musicians with different geographic and musical reference points meeting inside a venue that has long maintained ties to Berlin’s scene.^[1][2][3][4]

Thursday’s Mediterranean Fragments opens the sequence

Florian Menzel leads the opening concert on Thursday, October 22 at 21:00 with Alessandro Di Puccio, Giuseppe Bottiglieri and Andrea Marcelli. The title, Mediterranean Fragments, frames the first evening around a four-player exchange and sets the geographic tone that carries into the weekend’s later bills. In a room accustomed to everything from jazz to spoken-word programming, this is the tightest possible entry point: one horn-led group, a defined personnel list and a late-evening start. It also establishes Marcelli as the connective musician before the wider instrumentation of Friday and Saturday expands the picture.^[1][2][3]

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Friday gives Ekkehard Wölk’s Pictures in Sounds a fuller frame

Friday, October 23 at 21:00 brings Walter Gauchel, Ekkehard Wölk, Kristoff Becker, Olaf Casimir and Andrea Marcelli together for Jazz Quintet: Pictures in Sounds. The billing places Gauchel and Wölk at the centre while enlarging the Thursday quartet into a quintet with Becker and Casimir alongside Marcelli. Marcelli’s own biography records collaborations in Berlin with both Wölk and Becker, including work connected to Wölk’s Pictures in Sounds recording, which makes this date a useful focal point within the three-night stretch. For a venue portrait, Friday is the clearest expression of Schlot’s preference for musician-led combinations with durable local connections.^[1][2][3]

Southern Lights closes with five players in motion

Gianni Gagliardi’s Southern Lights Quintet completes the run on Saturday, October 24 at 21:00. Gagliardi is joined by Ramón García, Tino Derado, Thiago Duarte and Marcelli, creating the weekend’s third distinct configuration around the same drummer. The sequence comprises separately billed groups whose personnel overlap reveals the scene’s working relationships. That approach fits Kunstfabrik Schlot’s broader role as a meeting point for Berlin jazz musicians while drawing on international networks cultivated over many years. A listener attending all three nights will encounter three bandleaders, changing harmonic voices and a rhythm section thread that remains audible across the programme.^[1][2][3]

Plan the room, then check the listings

Kunstfabrik Schlot is at Invalidenstraße 117 in the Edison-Höfe, with access also listed via Schlegelstraße 26. The venue says it generally opens one hour before programme start; Berlin’s official listings place Nordbahnhof and Naturkundemuseum among the nearby public-transport stops. For this October 22–25, 2026 weekend, the selected concerts begin at 21:00 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Reserve or confirm directly through the official Kunstfabrik Schlot pages, and recheck those pages before travelling for current entry, ticket and schedule information.^[1][2][4]

Sources

1. Kunstfabrik Schlot Berlin – Jazz-Club — Kunstfabrik Schlot
2. Kunstfabrik Schlot — visitBerlin
3. IG Jazz Berlin – Szene und Netzwerk — IG Jazz Berlin
4. Kunstfabrik Schlot — Berlin.de