For many years now, Joo Kraus has rightly been one of the most renowned jazz trumpeters in our latitudes. The trumpet was not placed directly in Joo's cradle, but next to the exercise book.

His father already played the trumpet and taught him the first chords. Catapulted into the scene at the age of 19 by winning first prize in the national competition “Jugend musiziert”, he gained five years of stage experience with the electro-rock band “Kraan”.

Joo founded the hip-jazz duo “Tab Two” with Hellmut Hattler in the early 1990s. The rhythm section and the effects already came from the computer - a pretty groundbreaking innovation in the early 90s.

Tab Two played across Europe, Asia and the USA, produced eight albums and was one of the biggest influencers in the genre worldwide.

In the 2000s, Joo Kraus increasingly wrote his own songs. He produced his album Sueño in Havana's oldest recording studio and arranged songs by Michael Jackson into an intellectually demanding bow to the King of Pop.

Joo Kraus – that means many decades of international stage and studio experience, countless worldwide tours, 2 Grammy nominations, the Echo Jazz as best German trumpeter and 6 German Jazz Awards in gold.

But no matter whether Joo is performing with the Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, with Paula Morelenbaum, as a guest of Klaus Doldinger, with the SWR Big Band or with his own quartet “Joo Jazz”, there is always this unmistakable tone:

Modest and powerful, thrilling joy of playing paired with sensitive attentiveness for the fellow musicians.

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