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b-flat
A 300-capacity Mitte jazz club built around nightly live sets, broad programming, and a long-running Wednesday jam.
- Upcoming shows
- 42
- Capacity
- 300
- Address
- 40 Dircksenstraße, 10178 Berlin
- Next show
- Sun, 15 Nov 2026
About b-flat
b-flat is a 300-capacity acoustic-music and jazz club in Berlin’s Mitte district. Its clearest calling card is Robin’s Nest, a Wednesday jam hosted by Canadian bassist Robin Draganić since 1999, with a changing cast and a public platform for musicians. That regular, alongside a program of about 310 concerts each year, makes b-flat a working room for discovery as well as a place to catch established players.
A forced move, then a fresh room
In 1995, musicians Jannis and Thanassis Zotos joined actor André Hennicke to found b-flat, and architect Claudius Pratsch helped shape a room intended to give acoustics equal weight with design. Jörg Zieprig joined in 1997 and took on programming as the club developed a calendar full of live music. The pivotal chapter came in 2016. After 21 years at Rosenthaler Straße 13, the building’s owners declined to renew the lease. A June 19 farewell closed that chapter; b-flat resumed at Dircksenstraße 40 on July 15. The club crossed Mitte after a brief interruption, carrying its founders’ open-ended approach to jazz into a new address.
The room and the booking philosophy
b-flat books across jazz styles, alongside funk, R&B, soul and world music, at about 310 concerts each year. Its 300-person capacity gives the venue a dedicated concert-room scale, while Pratsch’s acoustic-focused design remains part of its identity; the club also operates with a cocktail-bar character. Wednesday’s Robin’s Nest begins at 9 p.m. and uses its changing-session format to introduce players and projects. The strongest fit is a listener who enjoys improvisation, regular local talent, and a program that leaves genre borders loose.
Sources
- CLUB — b-flat berlin — b-flat
- b flat in Berlin macht zu und gleich wieder auf — Jazzpages
- b flat — Musikinformationszentrum (miz)
- JAMSESSION — b-flat berlin — b-flat
Next 15 shows
- Sun, 15 Nov 2026 · 21:00 June Yun & Arseny Rykov: Raw Sketches View in the CrowdMate app
- Tue, 17 Nov 2026 · 21:00 open excess: + Anna Reizbikh & Peter Ehwald View in the CrowdMate app
- Wed, 18 Nov 2026 · 21:00 Robins Nest View in the CrowdMate app
- Thu, 19 Nov 2026 · 21:00 The Ari Erev Group View in the CrowdMate app
- Fri, 20 Nov 2026 · 21:00 SUPERSALAD View in the CrowdMate app
- Sat, 21 Nov 2026 · 21:00 Tempo Havanna View in the CrowdMate app
- Sun, 22 Nov 2026 · 21:00 Ramiro Olaciregui „TONIC“ View in the CrowdMate app
- Tue, 24 Nov 2026 · 21:00 Jörg Schippa´s UnbedingT View in the CrowdMate app
- Wed, 25 Nov 2026 · 21:00 „ VANDOJAM MEETS ROBIN`S NEST“ + JAMSESSION View in the CrowdMate app
- Thu, 26 Nov 2026 · 21:00 MATHEI FLOREA NEW GROUNDSNever Odd or Even View in the CrowdMate app
- Fri, 27 Nov 2026 · 21:00 mOOn dOgs View in the CrowdMate app
- Sat, 28 Nov 2026 · 21:00 Roman Ott Quartett - for new recording View in the CrowdMate app
- Sun, 29 Nov 2026 · 21:00 Searching for Home View in the CrowdMate app
- Tue, 1 Dec 2026 · 21:00 FOR FREE HANDS | Berlin . Sofia . Rom . Ljubljana . Rabatt| URBAN JAZZ . WORLD FUSIONjust announced View in the CrowdMate app
- Wed, 2 Dec 2026 · 21:00 Robins Nestjust announced View in the CrowdMate app
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