Jazzpianist Mathias Claus inspires with his performance at the community center (vk) „Once you are addicted to jazz, it is hard to find your audience“.

On this evening Mathias Claus complained about this beloved sorrow, but not really serious, because the concert in the community centre was full with guests, who seemed to share the musical passion of the jazz pianist uncompromisingly. Claus gave a guest performance during the Braunschweiger piano festival “Tastentaumel” 2008 on invitation of the culture association of Papenteich. Under the heading „all that swingin’ american jazzpiano“ he carried forward his audience on a musical field trip into the history of the jazz and thus to the appropriate pianists and composers of the past 80 years. Beginning with Blues and ragtime he started with the most well-known piece of jazz history into the evening: St. Louis Blues. He followed the chronology of music history by the decades and asked „What actually is Swing?“ Different pieces alluding he landed at Benny Goodman and kidnapped into the jazz clubs of the 50’s to Harlem: Take the A-Train, with the underground line, which led directly into the heart of the happening. The standard of Duke Ellington with same title wrote jazz history. Through the hands of Mathias Claus the topic turned out likewise to a milestone on this night. Out of the Swing the Mainstream jazz has been developed. Claus presented the respective style imitating considerable representatives of this style direction such as Oscar Peterson and moderated with great humor the deep lyric poetry of the lyrics of this time. This event has been the first concert for the culture association Papenteich in the community centre during the “Tastentaumel” piano festival, as chairman Ingrid Richter stated. She was extremely content with the resonance on the program. „Many regular guests but also many new faces in the audience“.