Still Waters (Record Release) From the Black Forest via Berlin and New York to London – Niklas Lukassen unites exciting individualists from the jazz scenes of Amsterdam, London, Paris and Berlin in his internationally renowned quartet with alto saxophonist Ben Van Gelder, pianist Ivo Neame and drummer Francesco Ciniglio. Like water, the ensemble charts its course through multifaceted terrain in flowing improvisations – only to create towering waves through deliberately daring collision. For the concert, the quartet presents material from Lukassen's debut album Still Waters (released with liner notes by Ron Carter, his mentor, under whom Lukassen completed his master's studies at the Manhattan School of Music). As a bassist, composer and vocalist as well as current doctoral candidate at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Lukassen combines painterly instrumental lyricism with a distinctive bandleader potential that is increasingly capturing the attention of the European jazz scene.