A-Trane

About A-Trane

A-Trane is a roughly 100-capacity jazz club in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district, a short walk from Savignyplatz. Its defining feature is the room itself: founder Ralf Rudolph built it using a room-within-a-room construction, with sound isolation, quiet ventilation and acoustics planned at structural level. That engineering gives the small club an unusually focused listening environment, with audience members gathered close to the bandstand. The name joins John Coltrane’s “Trane” with “Take the A Train.”

A former potato shop turned listening room

The story began with a disused potato shop at the Bleibtreustraße/Pestalozzistraße corner. Rudolph converted the ground-floor space into a jazz club, following a building application filed in September 1989 and approved on November 2, 1990. A-Trane opened on September 11, 1992; its opening run featured the New Berlin Jazz Quintet, including a young Till Brönner, across four weekends. The detail matters because the club arrived as a purpose-built room, conceived around studio-quality sound instead of adapted as an afterthought.

Sedal Sardan took over in 1997 after Rudolph sought a successor. Sardan, previously a designer, illustrator and professional basketball player, became the club’s owner-manager and regular master of ceremonies. In 2011, A-Trane received the Live Entertainment Award for Best German Jazz Club, a formal marker of the work’s reach beyond its small floorplan.

What the room gives you now

The calendar centers modern, cool, contemporary and avant-garde jazz, with fusion, soul and R&B also in the mix; the club presents concerts on almost every evening and keeps a Monday Andreas Schmidt & Friends session as a low-barrier introduction. Expect seated listening around a compact stage, plus limited standing room when the room fills. Full air-conditioning, dedicated light and sound systems, and an in-house recording studio underline the venue’s musician-first setup. The club also appears regularly in JazzFest Berlin programming.

Sources

1. History – International Jazz-Club A-Trane Berlin — A-Trane
2. 27 Jahre A-Trane — A-Trane
3. A-Trane — Wikipedia
4. A-Trane jazz club — visitBerlin
5. Live und mit Gefühl — Forum – Das Wochenmagazin
6. Keeping the jazz alive — The Berliner
7. Programme — A-Trane

Next 15 shows

• Mon, 16 Nov 2026 · 20:30 ANDREAS SCHMIDT & FRIENDS View in the CrowdMate app
• Tue, 17 Nov 2026 · 20:30 LETZTEN PLÄTZE AN DER BAR-LAST SEATS LEFT AT THE BAR A-TRANE PRÄSENTIERT: Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet «Bright Folk» Album Release Concert Feat: Jakob Manz-Nils Kugelmann-Sebastian Wolfgruber View in the CrowdMate app
• Wed, 18 Nov 2026 · 20:30 Thomas Stieger + Simon Oslender, Igor Osypov, Marc Doffey, Peter Gall View in the CrowdMate app
• Thu, 19 Nov 2026 · 20:30 Thomas Stieger + Simon Oslender, Igor Osypov, Marc Doffey, Peter Gall View in the CrowdMate app
• Fri, 20 Nov 2026 · 20:30 PRÄSENTIERT TAG1: Christoph Titz & Band «August Stories» Feat: Gero Körner-Thomy Jordi-Alfonso Garrido View in the CrowdMate app
• Sat, 21 Nov 2026 · 20:30 PRÄSENTIERT TAG2: Christoph Titz & Band «August Stories» Feat: Gero Körner-Thomy Jordi-Alfonso Garrido View in the CrowdMate app
• Mon, 23 Nov 2026 · 20:30 ANDREAS SCHMIDT & FRIENDS View in the CrowdMate app
• Tue, 24 Nov 2026 · 20:30 TC.KYLIE + JOYA, Natasha Petrović, Karlos Hall, Indigo Pearce, Alex Skinner View in the CrowdMate app
• Wed, 25 Nov 2026 · 20:30 Mathias Ruppnig + Gianni Gagliardi, Tony Tixier, Lorenz Heigenhuber View in the CrowdMate app
• Thu, 26 Nov 2026 · 20:30 PRÄSENTIERT: THÄRICHENS TENTETT FEAT: Michael Schiefel-Sven Klammer-Jan von Klewitz-Andreas Spannagel-Nikolaus Leistle-Sören Fischer-Robert Kessler-Andreas Henze-Kai Schönburg View in the CrowdMate app
• Fri, 27 Nov 2026 · 20:00 EB DAVIS & THE SUPERBAND + KAT BALOUN View in the CrowdMate app
• Fri, 27 Nov 2026 · 20:30 PRESENTS BLUES DAY1: Will Jacobs & The Unit BERLIN LATE ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT "GOLDFISH BLUES" FEAT: Christian Keymer-Arne Imig-Brian D. Sauls View in the CrowdMate app
• Sat, 28 Nov 2026 · 20:30 PRESENTS BLUES DAY2: Will Jacobs & The Unit BERLIN LATE ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT "GOLDFISH BLUES" FEAT: Christian Keymer-Arne Imig-Brian D. Sauls View in the CrowdMate app
• Sun, 29 Nov 2026 · 18:00 PRESENTS: CAROLINA BUBBICO «Vocàlia» GroundUp Records New Album Tour FEAT: Filippo Bubbico-Gabriel Prado View in the CrowdMate app
• Mon, 30 Nov 2026 · 20:30 ANDREAS SCHMIDT & FRIENDS View in the CrowdMate app

Artists playing here

Bene AperdannierCarlos CoronaLily DahabMax Hughes

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• Fri, 13 Nov 2026 · 20:30 Lily Dahab + Bene Aperdannier, Carlos Corona, Max Hughes, Rolo Rodriguez

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