The upcoming Thursday-to-Sunday stretch, November 12–15, holds a compact jazz route with a particularly satisfying internal logic. Three consecutive 21:00 programmes at Kunstfabrik Schlot move from Sophia Oster’s song-centred quartet into Matej Korbelič’s trumpet-and-tenor ensemble and Béla Meinberg’s return to the standard-songbook tradition. Across town, A-Trane gives Lily Dahab two 20:30 nights to present new material with the same five-person band. The result is a weekend shaped by musicians who treat repertoire as living material: new songs, original compositions, older forms and arrangements all enter the frame.[1][2][3][4][5]

Thursday: Sophia Oster’s vocal-jazz entry point

Kunstfabrik Schlot opens the thread on Thursday, November 12, with the Sophia Oster Quartet at 21:00. Oster arrives as vocalist, pianist and composer, joined by Konstantin Herleinsberger on saxophone and flute, Paul Imm on bass, and Rafael Müller on drums. The venue characterises the music as contemporary vocal jazz rooted in tradition, gospel and Brazilian music; its programme also identifies Praise as the current album context. That makes this the most song-focused start to the sequence, with Oster’s piano placed inside a compact quartet sound instead of separated from the voice.[1]

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Friday: two distinct takes on ensemble colour

Friday, November 13, offers a genuine fork in the route. At 21:00, Kunstfabrik Schlot hosts Matej Korbelič Quartett feat. Ben Kraef. Korbelič brings trumpet, flugelhorn and compositions; Kraef joins on tenor saxophone alongside Conrad Stephenson, Elias Störr and Heinrich Eißmann. The billed instrumentation gives the night a defined front line, while the programme places Korbelič’s Berlin-based work and Kraef’s long Berlin–New York musical history in focus. It is a useful choice for listeners drawn to the details of writing, brass texture and small-group interaction.[2]

Friday and Saturday: Lily Dahab’s two-night Latin American programme

At A-Trane, Lily Dahab begins a two-night run on Friday at 20:30 and continues on Saturday at the same time. Both evenings bring Bene Aperdannier on piano and Rhodes, Carlos Corona on guitar, Max Hughes on bass and Rolo Rodriguez on percussion. A-Trane frames the programme as “Colourful Latin American Modern Music” and says Dahab is previewing songs intended for her next release. The club’s description traces the material beyond her Argentine roots to rhythms associated with Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and Chile, while also naming tango, folklore, samba, flamenco and bossa nova among the colours in her wider work.[4][5]

Saturday: standards as a working language

Saturday’s 21:00 Kunstfabrik Schlot programme turns the route toward a more explicit engagement with jazz history. The Béla Meinberg Quartet – Original Standards features Meinberg on piano with Ignaz Dinné on saxophone, Ugo Alunni on drums and Makar Novikov on bass. The venue describes the set as straight-ahead and modern jazz, built around the original forms of standards whose source material includes Broadway musicals of the 1920s and 1930s. Following Oster’s contemporary vocal writing and Korbelič’s composed brass-led set, this is an evening for hearing familiar jazz architecture examined in close-up.[3]

Plan the route

For the full five-show version, start at Kunstfabrik Schlot on Thursday, return there Friday or Saturday, then make A-Trane the anchor for Lily Dahab’s Friday and Saturday performances. Kunstfabrik Schlot is in the Edison Höfe on Invalidenstraße, while A-Trane is on Bleibtreustraße in Charlottenburg. Doors, ticket availability and running orders can shift before show day, so recheck each venue’s official event page before travelling.[1][2][3][4][5]

Sources

  1. Sophia Oster Quartet — Kunstfabrik Schlot
  2. Matej Korbelič Quartett feat. Ben Kraef — Kunstfabrik Schlot
  3. Béla Meinberg Quartet – Original Standards — Kunstfabrik Schlot
  4. A-Trane Presents Day 1: Lily Dahab — International Jazz-Club A-Trane Berlin
  5. A-Trane Presents Day 2: Lily Dahab — International Jazz-Club A-Trane Berlin