Taranczewski

Taranczewski from Berlin play what they call cinematic jazz. The pianist is the composer and namesake of the band, but as one can easily hear on the debut album “When I Was” (2021) and their second album “LOM” (2024), Taranczewski is a stable triangle whose impulses and play times are evenly and – more importantly – equitably distributed.

Drummer Paul Benedikt Stehle (born 1984 in Sigmaringen) moved to Berlin at the age of 17 to become a professional musician. After auditions for Berklee College of Music and Los Angeles College of Music, Benedikt Stehle received two scholarships and studied in the USA. After graduation, he toured the U.S. and Indonesia for two years. He lived and worked in the New York music scene during this time. Among other activities, he toured as a steady drummer with Sammy Adams, a rapper from Boston. In 2008, Stehle returned to Berlin and worked live, in the studio, and on television with Beth Hart, Mousse T., Barbara Tucker, Dendemann, Emma Lanford, Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), Della Miles, Steve Lillywhite, Mo’ Blow, The Weather Girls, Aly Keïta, Joachim Deutschland, Balbina, and Nino De Angelo, among others. In addition to being a freelance session musician, he is a permanent band member with pop singer Alexander Knappe and Romanian Balkan band Fanfare Ciocărlia. With this group he contributed several tracks to the internationally successful feature film “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (Borat 2) by Sacha Baron Cohen in 2020. Here he can be heard not only as a drummer, but also as a singer of the Balkan version of the Bill Withers classic “Just the two of us” in the credits of the film.

Bassist Jean-Philippe Wadle (born 1980 in Pirmasens) won 1st prize at Jugend jazzt in 1998 and 2001 and studied double bass at the conservatories of Mainz and Cologne between 2002 and 2006.

In 2003 he founded the Bassface Swing Trio, which still exists today. Wadle has worked with musicians such as Tom Gaebel, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lalo Schifrin, HR BigBand, Tony Lakatos, Axel Schlosser, Ralf Hesse, Scott Hamilton, Manfred Schoof, Ack van Rooyen, Hans Dekker, Bruno Müller, Wolfgang Haffner, as well as with Katja Ebstein, Marshall-Alexander and Tony Marshall, and has been part of the Emil Mangelsdorff Quartet since 2015.

Wadle can be heard on albums by Gee Hye Lee, Daniel Stelter, Andreas Gabalier and Eugene Ruffolo. In addition to numerous concerts in Europe, tours have taken him to the USA and South Korea.