'...it's truly a beautiful thing when ... Sassoon surrenders so completely to her instrument and the moment that, like a medium, reveals mysteries to us in ways both intimate and oceanic...'

'..."At the Water Tower" is an emotive, forward tumbling elegy of darkness and light. Sledgehammer and flower. While it swirls around you its center stays calm, and from that vantage both pianist and listener watch the world move...'

Mike Jurkovic - allaboutjazz.com

'a moment of pure magic ...'

Geert Ryssen - fullcirclemusic.com

‘…Sassoon has always possessed an uncanny instinct for sidestepping mimicry or cliché…

...in the gliding, airborne "Murmuration" she was flying free... seamlessly evolving through startling harmonic modulations, alternations of staccato and sonorously rolling passages, dreamy reveries quietly punctuated by gleaming treble notes and deep chords, before a Jarrett-like rocking groove takes it out...'

John Fordham

Read John Fordham's feature/interview in London Jazz News

2021 GIGS

12. June - Julie Sassoon Quartet @ Gruveniushaus - Sassnitz postponed

17. June - Julie Sassoon + Frank Paul Schubert @ Terzo Mondo - Berlin

29. August - JSQuartet - Charlotte Salomon Project @ Glad Haus - COTTBUS -15.00

11. September - SOLO @ PEITZ JAZZ FESTIVAL - 17.00

17. September - Sassoon/Kellers Duo @ Nikodemuskirche - BERLIN - 20.00

13. October - Sassoon/Kellers Duo @ Sowieso - 20.00

14. October - JSQuartet - CSP @ Jewish Museum AMSTERDAM (tbc)

21. Oct - JSQuartet - CSP @ Jüdische Kulturtage - Forum Gestaltung - MAGDEBURG - 19.30

22. Oct - JSQuartet - CSP @ Bunker Ulmenwall - BIELEFELD - 20.30

23. Oct - JSQuartet - CSP @ Hospitalhof - STUTTGART - 20.00

24. Oct - JSQuartet - CSP @ Alte Synagoge HECHINGEN - 16.00

Jazz + Klassiktage Tübingen

18. Nov - JSQuartet - ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT @ ZIGZAG - BERLIN - 20.00

25. November - JSQuartet - CSP @ Cologne (tba)

26. November - JSQuartet - CSP @ Van Der Heydt Museum - WUPPERTAL - 19.00

28. Nov - JSQuartet - CSP @ Jüdische Kulturtage - VIENNA - 11.00 Matinee

4. Dec - 'Inside Colours' Duo @ 40. Jubilaum Bayerisches Jazzweekend- REGENSBURG

2020

'Inside Colours Duo' + special guest Mia Ohlmeier on drums

5. September @ Kulturfestival - Lüneburg - 3.30 & 7pm

Julie Sassoon/Willi Kellers Duo

22. September - double bill with Rolf Kühn @ InstituteFrancais - Berlin - 20.00

2. October - Kulturspeicher - Leer - 19.30

Solo Piano

15. November - Solo double bill with Sophie Tassignon - Schlot Jazz Club - Berlin - 20.30 - postponed

Julie Sassoon Quartet

6.+7. Nov - Quartet CD Recording @ the Loft - Cologne

8. December - Zigzag Jazz Club - Berlin - postponed

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET - SPRING TOUR 2020

CHARLOTTE SALOMON PROJECT

20 Nov - Kulturbrauerei - Berlin - 20.00

13 Feb - TH Helmholtz-Hörsaal - Ilmenau - 20.00

14 Feb - Gedenkstätte Mittelbau Dora - Nordhausen - 20.00

14 Feb - Villa Rosenthal - Jena - 20.00

16 Feb - Schleswig-Holstein-Haus - Schwerin - 18.00

17 Feb - ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - 19.30

18 Feb - Charlotte Salomon Grundschule - Berlin - 19.00

21 Feb - Potsdam Museum (Altes Rathaus) - Potsdam - 20.00

16 Apr - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefeld Postponed to April 2021

17 Apr - Opernfoyer Jazz Series - Wuppertal (not Charlotte Salomon Project) Postponed to April 2021

25 Apr - Stüler Kirch - Peitz - 19.00 Postponed

CHECK OUT THESE VIDEOS OF THE QUARTET LIVE IN BERLIN!

New Album on Jazzwerkstatt!!

WILLI KELLERS + JULIE SASSOON DUO - 'WAVES'

TOURDATES - Sassoon/Kellers Duo

13. May - Gladhouse Cottbus - 20.00

5. June - Intersonanzenfestival Potsdam - 19.00

14. June - Jazzclub W71- Weikersheim 20.00

15. June - Zoglau3 - 20.00

31. Aug - Zommerjazzfietstour 2019- Groningen

1. Oct - Aufsturz - Berlin - 20.00

3. Oct - Forum Gestaltung - Magdeburg - 20.00

5. Oct - ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - official Album release concert

13. Dec - Inside Colours Duo @ Potsdam Museum - 20.00

Past gigs 2019

Julie Sassoon Quartet

Thu - 3. Jan @ Porgy and Bess - Vienna

Fri - 4. Jan @ Sägewerk - Bad Gastein

Sat - 5. Jan @ Unterfahrt - Munich

Sun - 17 Feb - Keith Tippett's new suite performed by 'Zinc + Copper' plus:

Willi Kellers/Sassoon Duo + Toby Delius/Hilary Jeffrey/Rozemarie Heggen play...

music for Keith + Julie Tippett - Industriesalon, Schöneweide, Berlin

Julie Sassoon Quartet

Fri - 8 March - Aufsturz - Jazzkeller69 - Berlin

Sat - 9 March - Neustätdisches Palais - Goldener Saal - Schwerin

Sun - 10 March - Saxstall

Fri - 22 March - MAERZMUSIK FESTIVAL 2019 - Opening Concert - Horatiu Radulescu’s 'Clepsydra'

Sat - 6 April - Sassoon/Thiele Duo @Villa Rosenthal - Jena

Julie Sassoon Quartet

Tues 30. April - Zeiss Planetarium - Bochum (Charlotte Salomon Project)

Wed 1. May - Saalehof Gottesgnaden - Calbe (Saale)

Thurs 2. May - Zeiss Grossplanetarium - Berlin (Charlotte Salomon Project)

Sun 12. May - Johannes Bauer Memorial Werkstatt Orchestra Industriesalon, Schöneweide Berlin

Fri 17. May - Jazz Live im Speicher - Leer

28 July - Sile Jazz Festival - ITALY

Here are some impressions of our quartet tour - playing @ Ruhr, Freiberg and Magdeburg Jazz Festivals - and ending with a wonderful concert at the Elbphilharmonie!!!

Read new live reviews here...

Ruhr Jazz Festival review...

Magdeburg Jazz Festival review...

2018

6. Sep Inside Colours Duo - ARD Radiofestival 2018 JAZZ - 23:35

In April - 'Inside Colours' Duo were invited by the Bayerischer Rundfunk to play a concert at Zoglau3.

This concert will be broadcast again on Thursday 6. September - 11:35pm on ARD Radiofestival 2018.

12. Sep Solo piano @ Schlot - Berlin - 21:00

15. Sep Solo piano @ ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - 21:00

16. Sep Inside colours Duo - Lüneburg - 16:00

6. March Julie Sassoon-Solo /Conny Bauer Trio @ A-Trane - 9pm - Berlin

17. March Julie Sassoon/Willi Kellers Duo @ Ruhr Jazz Festival - Kunstmuseum - 7.30pm - Bochum

22. March Inside Colours Duo with Lothar Ohlmeier @ B Flat - 9pm -Berlin

6. April Bayrischer Rundfunk live CD recording of INSIDE COLOURS DUO @ Zoglau 3 - 8pm

Julie Sassoon Quartet

8. April RUHR JAZZ FESTIVAL - Bochum

13. April FREIBERG JAZZ FESTIVAL - Freiberg

20. April MAGDEBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL - Magdeburg

21. April ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - SOLD OUT

9. June Julie Sassoon/Willi Kellers Duo PEITZ JAZZ FESTIVAL

Julie Sassoon/ Nora Thiele Duo @ Jazz Units Festival Berlin

Saturday - 6. January 2018 - Musikbrauerei - Berlin - recorded by RBB

'Inside Colours' Duo Concert - Berlin

Saturday 13. January

Opening Concert - Masters of Minimal @ Schönes Wochenende Festival 2018

Thu - 18. January - TONHALLE - Düsseldorf - Music of Julius Eastman

2017

Julie Sassoon Quartet - Fourtune

Official Album Release Concert

19. April @ A-Trane - Berlin - 9pm

16 July @ Jüdisches Museum Berlin - 'Jazz in the Garden' Kultursommer

20 June - @ Peitz Jazz Festival - Rathaus Peitz - 11am

20 October - Kulturforum Lüneburg - 20:30

23 Nov - Zigzag Club - Berlin

24 November - Jazzwerkstatt Festival - Vortex - London

Click here to read the review of the Peitz Festival on LONDON JAZZ NEWS

"...It was certainly a great pleasure to hear again Julie Sassoon's quartet,

recently recorded impeccably on jazzwerkstatt label at the Berlin radio studios.."

Oliver Weindling LONDON JAZZ NEWS

Willi Kellers/Julie Sassoon Duo

20 May @ Einstein Kulturzentrum - Offene Ohren - Munich

22 April @ Magdeburg Jazz Festival - 8pm

10 September @ Novilla - Berlin - 3pm

'FOURTUNE' - JULIE SASSOON QUARTET

ALBUM on Jazzwerkstatt

Official Album Release Concert

19th April @ A-Trane - Berlin - 9pm

click here to read the CD review in the Guardian

"... nuanced, evocative, eloquent... " - John Fordham

‘Fourtune’ was featured on ‘Late Night Jazz’ - RBB Kulturradio. You can listen back to it here on Soundcloud

click on CD cover images to hear samples of the CD on Soundcloud

Voted CD choice on BR-KLASSIK RADIO

review by Roland Spiegel

"...das neue Quartett der Pianistin wirkt musikalisch wie die Verlängerung ihrer eigenen Fingerspitzen. Ganz hohe Sensibilität, sehr feines Aufnehmen und Weitergeben von Impulsen. Ein Ensemble, das sich wie ein Organismus bewegt - getragen von gemeinsamem Atem..."

"...eine schillernd-schöne Musik mit vielen Facetten. Musik, die zu berühren weiß mit Tönen, die keinem Klischee folgen, sondern sich dem Hörer auf ganz eigene Art nähern..."

"An iridescent, beautiful music with many facets… never one-dimensional…”

“… Music of such high sensitivity… that touches… with sounds that follow no clichées, but absorb the listener in a very unique way.”

“…an ensemble that seems to move as one organism… carried by the same breath…”

Review by Duncan Heining on Allaboutjazz

"...'Fourtune' is British pianist-composer Julie Sassoon's first quartet recording. Sassoon's musical approach draws in equal measure on her classical training and on a love of jazz and improvised music. This marriage goes far beyond the translation of a pianistic technique from one musical area to another but becomes something far deeper and more powerfully emotionally moving in her hands..."

BUY CD

New video - new album - FOURTUNE - recorded at RBB Studios Berlin

released on jazzwerkstatt label

14th March - Solo Piano Concert @ Altes Theater Steyr - 19.30

Steyr Jazz Festival - Austria

17th March - Julius Eastman - The Unbreathing - for 4 pianos

Haus der Berliner Festspiele - 20.00

MAERZMUSIK FESTIVAL BERLIN - Opening Concert

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET - NEW ALBUM - 'FOURTUNE'

@ LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL

Sat - 12th November 8pm

Supported by Initiative Musik GmbH with project funds from the

Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

1st Nov @ Mon Ami - Jazzmeile - WEIMAR

10th Nov - Verdict Jazz Club - BRIGHTON

12th Nov - Vortex Jazz Club - LONDON

Click here to read interview in the latest issue of Sussex Jazz Magazine

NEWS

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET

It was an incredible week in July at the Radio Berlin-Brandenburg - RBB Kulturradio Studios

recording the new quartet CD for Jazzwerkstatt label

with the support of five wonderful sound engineers!

We recorded some great music.

I also found time to record 2 new solo pieces…

but thats for later...

Thanks to Ulf Drechsel, Wolfgang Hoff, Peter Schladebach, Reinhard, Tilman, Benni, Rudi Fischerlehner, Meinrad Kneer, Lothar Ohlmeier, Tom Arthurs and Ulli Blobel for making this possible. Also to Joji Koyama for the video.

The mixing takes place next week.

'INSIDE COLOURS DUO' concert described as

'Highlight of the Bayerisches Jazzweekend 2016"

Bayerisches Jazzweekend 2016

Lothar Ohlmeier

Mittelbayerische Zeitung article

Bayerisches Jazzweekend 2016

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JULY 4 - 8th

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET CD RECORDING

AT RBB STUDIOS - BERLIN

FOR JAZZWERKSTATT

click on photo to enlarge

The concert will be broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk Klassik-Radio

23rd September - 11pm - midnight

presented by Roland Spiegel

SOLO LIVE @ THE BIMHUIS AMSTERDAM

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET

Friday 27th May - 19.30

@ Forum Gestaltung

MAGDEBURG

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Wed 8th June - 21.00

@ Schlot

BERLIN

SOLO PIANO CONCERT

Sunday 3rd April

@ Hugh Lane Gallery

DUBLIN

Thursday 28th Jan

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET

@ B-FLAT
BERLIN

Friday 18th December - 8pm

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET

@ T-BERLIN

Fidicinstrasse 38, Berlin-Kreuzberg

Friday - 30th October - 8pm

SOLO PIANO CONCERT

@ Juedische Kulturtage

MAGDEBURG

Sunday - 11th October - 4pm

INSIDE COLOURS DUO

Julie Sassoon + Lothar Ohlmeier

@ NOVILLA-BERLIN

Jazzkeller 69

Click here to see 'Inside Colours' Duo videos

with Lothar Ohlmeier on soprano sax and bass clarinet

Tuesday - 29th September - 9pm

JULIE SASSOON - SOLO

+ ZOSH - SOLO VOICE

@ B-FLAT - BERLIN

JULIE SASSOON SOLO - 'AT THE WATERTOWER'

JULIE SASSOON SOLO - 'TO BE'

Thursday - 24th September - 8pm

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET

+ MARILYN CRISPELL/GUENTHER HEINZ DUO

@ Kulturbrauerei - Maschinenhaus

BERLIN

Thursday - 10th September - 8pm

JULIE SASSOON QUARTET

HAMBURG

!!!! NEW QUARTET !!!!

with Lothar Ohlmeier - tenor,soprano sax/bass clarinet

Meinrad Kneer - bass

Rudi Fischerlehner - drums

Debut concert @ Schlot Jazz club - Berlin

Saturday 1st August - 21.30

FRIDAY 12th JUNE 8.30pm
SOLO @ THE BIMHUIS

Fri 5th June - SASSOON/THIELE @ Seppmaiers 2raumwohnung,

Sat 6th June - SASSOON/THIELE DUO @LÜNEBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL

Tue 9th June - solo @ Finnlandzentrum, Berlin

Fri 12th June - Solo @ the BIMHUIS, Amsterdam

recent live reviews

“…Her music cannot be categorised, it is quite impossible. The music ebbs and flows with grace, beauty, aggression and real soul. The listener is taken on a journey, never knowing where the next notes are coming from or where they will lead and often, Julie, immersed in the improvisation doesn’t know either. There were moments of blistering speed, running through incredible, atmospheric scales before returning to an introspective, dark lament. At times the lead notes are accompanied by her voice, hauntingly beautiful…

…I know of no music quite like it, forget trying to play her CD’s and videos as background music, it demands your attention throughout and her live performances are compelling.

“…I would urge anyone to seek out her live performances and experience it for themselves.”

"...simply spellbinding."

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"...an unclassifiable venture... Julie Sassoon consistently makes the piano, her voice and her deepest emotions sound awesomely and naturally inseparable."
John Fordham ****

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"... Jarrett is an artist with whom Sassoon shares a language and a tradition. Indeed, Land of Shadows might be thought of as the Cologne Concert after Jarretts The Koeln Concert.
It deserves (and given a chance, will receive) the same kind of recognition and adulation..."
Mike Butler - Dyverse Music

"Land of Shadows" voted favourite jazz CD of 2013

"... piano music that is a cut beyond, in the same class as

Jarrett or Pieranunzi or other first class players..."

'Land of Shadows' is a wonderfully rich and beautiful record. Its also a very brave one that succeeds in taking its message beyond the personal into areas both more spiritual and profound...'

***** Duncan Heining - All About Jazz

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12th Nov - House of Mirrors @ Kultraum Kleinmachnow 8pm

19th Nov - House of Mirrors @ WABE Berlin 8pm

25th Nov - Solo @ Jazz Cafe Newcastle UK 8pm

27th Nov - Solo @ Terry O Toole Theatre Lincoln UK 7.30pm

19th Dec - Solo @ Institute Francais Berlin 8pm

JULIE SASSOON + LOTHAR OHLMEIER
INSIDE COLOURS DUO

@ MUSIKFABRIK - BERLIN

Saturday - 20th September 8pm

REVIEW OF 'INSIDE COLOURS' DUO

"...Admirers of the saxophone playing of Jan Garbarek or the avantist Evan Parker, or devotees of the the piano improvisations of Keith Jarrett, would find themselves close to home here - though the music of Sassoon and Ohlmeier has an airy lightness, dynamic width and special lyricism entirely of its own...”

The Guardian

Click here to listen to 'Inside Colours'... and to read full review

SOLO PIANO

Sunday - 25th May

GALLERY OF TONES + AMP

De Lommerd, Arnhem, NL

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JAZZWERKSTATT

PIANO FESTIVAL HAMBURG

30th April - 8pm

@ NOCHTSPEICHER

Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 69a, 20359 Hamburg

Julie Sassoon - solo

Ulrich Gumpert - solo

Leon Gurvitch - solo

Uri Caine/Dave Douglas

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26th April - 5pm - Solo piano @ 40th Freiberg Jazz Festival

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Julie Sassoon solo + Enrico Pieranunzi Trio

@ Bishopsgate Institute

15th Nov

LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL

click to read the article by Duncan Heining

'Dancing in the Shadows'

'... soundboard-shaking power expressed along with meditative romanticism...'

Ken Waxman - Jazzword

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Click - to read article

Spiegel-online

reviewing the new CD - 'Land of Shadows'

'...Verdrängt das Klavier das Saxophon und die Trompete als Leitinstrumente im Jazz? Neue Alben von so erstklassigen Künstlern wie Julie Sassoon oder dem Thomas Rückert Trio stehen für die Vielfalt des Piano-Jazz..."

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'Land of Shadows' is a striking work. A mix of simple and complex, gentle and strident, dark and light,

it's powerful and affecting...'

Bruce Lindsay _ All About Jazz

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Click here to read

Review of the gig @ Petz Jazz Festival -

LONDON JAZZ NEWS - by Oliver Weindling

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Julie Sassoon Quartet

@ Peitz Jazz Festival

with Lothar Ohlmeier - clarinet

Tom Arthurs - trumpet

Samuel Rohrer - drums

Saturday 8th June

15.00 Rathaussaal

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Sassoon/Ohlmeier/Arthurs Trio

Tuesday 14th May

8pm

@ Direktorenhaus

[Am Krögel 2, 10179 Berlin ]

Jazzkeller 69

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Julie has recently released a new live solo CD – entitled

‘Land of Shadows’ on the Berlin Jazzwerkstatt Label.

RBB Kulturradio recorded and broadcasted her concert at the Neue Synagoge, Berlin - part of her Spring 2012 German Tour.

Performances at the Bauhaus, Dessau and the Loft in Cologne are included on the CD.

The result is a highly emotive and unique album.

'LAND OF SHADOWS' SOLO PIANO

CD RELEASE CONCERT

Thursday, 25th April

8pm

@ INSTITUTE FRANCAIS

Kurfürstendamm 211, 10719 Berlin

SOLO PIANO

Friday, 3rd May

@ THE LOFT - COLOGNE

Wissmanstrasse 30, 50823, Koeln

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Julie Sassoon

pianist/composer

It was a wonderful concert at the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal!

Inside Colours Trio at the Berlin Philharmonie

Photographs - Cristina Marx

Inside Colours Trio + Marc Ribot Trio double bill Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal on 28th April 2023.

INSIDE COLOURS TRIO Julie Sassoon - piano Lothar Ohlmeier - tenor sax/bass clarinet Mia Ohlmeier - drums

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VOYAGES on Jazzwerkstatt

You can listen back here...

1 At the Water Tower

2 Murmuration

'an album which can be counted as one of 2021's top solo piano outings...'

Dan Mcclenaghan - allaboutjazz.com

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'Inside Colours Duo' + special guest Mia Ohlmeier on drums

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CHECK OUT THESE VIDEOS OF THE QUARTET LIVE IN BERLIN!

WILLI KELLERS + JULIE SASSOON DUO - 'WAVES'

TOURDATES - Sassoon/Kellers Duo

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In April - 'Inside Colours' Duo were invited by the Bayerischer Rundfunk to play a concert at Zoglau3.

This concert will be broadcast again on Thursday 6. September - 11:35pm on ARD Radiofestival 2018.

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15. Sep Solo piano @ ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - 21:00

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14th March - Solo Piano Concert @ Altes Theater Steyr - 19.30

Inside Colours Trio + Marc Ribot Trio double bill
Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal on 28th April 2023.

INSIDE COLOURS TRIO
Julie Sassoon - piano
Lothar Ohlmeier - tenor sax/bass clarinet
Mia Ohlmeier - drums