Jimi Tenor & Big Band at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Jimi Tenor is a star. However, he’s a star who has never fully embraced this role that was thrust upon him in the 1990s. He combines Afro-American music with shameless humour; he confronts the rigid forms of European pop with spontaneity; and as a result he has created a highly distinctive oeuvre over the years. Tenor’s music developed from experimental rock. He recorded his early albums from 1986 to 1992 as Jimi Tenor & his Shamans, influenced by industrial rock and played on scrap metal and plastic. Not until later, in the 1990s, did he become a celebrated techno jazz artist. Today, he has a solid reputation as an artist who operates outside the mainstream and who performs in venues such as the hip Café Oto in London as well as at the Elphilharmonie...

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Jimi Tenor is a star. However, he’s a star who has never fully embraced this role that was thrust upon him in the 1990s. He combines Afro-American music with shameless humour; he confronts the rigid forms of European pop with spontaneity; and as a result he has created a highly distinctive oeuvre over the years. Tenor’s music developed from experimental rock. He recorded his early albums from 1986 to 1992 as Jimi Tenor & his Shamans, influenced by industrial rock and played on scrap metal and plastic. Not until later, in the 1990s, did he become a celebrated techno jazz artist. Today, he has a solid reputation as an artist who operates outside the mainstream and who performs in venues such as the hip Café Oto in London as well as at the Elphilharmonie. In his concert in the Grand Hall he and his big band perform the cream from a 30-year career in which he always sought out the weird and the wayward in pop, rock, jazz and funk.

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