Jeb Bishop, Matthias Muche, and Matthias Müller live at the Goethe-Institut Boston, October 9, 2023

Presented by the Goethe-Institut Boston and Non-Event
Video: Wenhua Shi
Recording: Matthew Azevedo

Jeb Bishop is considered one of the preeminent trombonists in improvisational music. He has played in Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet, Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band, and the Globe Unity Orchestra. The Chicago Sun-Times has called him “one of the best-kept secrets in American jazz.” Originally from North Carolina, he lived and worked in Chicago for over twenty years, resided in Boston from 2016 to 2022, and has recently returned to Chicago, where he is involved in several projects and groups.

Matthias Müller. has lived in Berlin since 2004 and has since performed with a variety of outstanding international improvisers. He is a member of the “Splitter Orchester,” a 24-piece ensemble of the Berlin echtzeit music scene and played for many years in the German-French Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Albert Mangelsdorff. Concert tours and festivals have taken him to Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and various European countries. With his own projects, he has released more than 50 CDs, among others on his own label MaMüMusic.

Matthias Muche lives in Cologne. He received the WDR Jazz Award 2021 in the category Improvisation. His large ensemble Bonecrusher – 10 Trombones & Percussion, was nominated for the short list of the German Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik [German Record Critics’ Award] for 2022. In his solo projects and Trio T.ON, he uses a wide variety of playing setups: feeds of speech and soundscapes into and on the trombone, spatial expansion using external bells, interactive computer graphics as synaesthetic perception, or simply the pure, naked trombone.