Joo Kraus - No Excuse Release-Tour

For many years now, Joo Kraus has quite rightly been one of the most renowned jazz trumpeters in our part of the world. Joo may not have been born with the trumpet, but he was taught it at school. His father already played the trumpet and taught him his first fingerings.
Catapulted into the scene at the age of 19 by winning first prize in the national "Jugend musiziert" competition, he gained five years of stage experience with the electro rock band "Kraan". Together with Hellmut Hattler, Joo founded the hip-jazz duo "Tab Two" in the early 1990s. The rhythm section and effects were already coming from the computer - quite a groundbreaking innovation at the beginning of the 1990s. "Tab Two played throughout Europe, Asia and the USA, produced eight albums and were one of the biggest influencers in this 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 sophisticated tribute to the King of Pop.
Joo Kraus - that's many decades of international stage and studio experience, countless worldwide tours, 2 Grammy nominations, the Echo Jazz award for best German trumpeter and 6 German Jazz Awards in gold. But regardless of whether Joo performs with 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 that unmistakable sound: modest and powerful, rousing joy of playing paired with sensitive attentiveness to his fellow musicians.

His new album NO EXCUSE! will be released by Jazzhaus Records in September 2024. It features music that is sometimes reminiscent of the rock of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, sometimes of the soul of the Commodores and sometimes of the psychedelic vocals of Pink Floyd. The whole album is a mix of genres and moods that is one thing above all: fun! The songs are colorful, diverse, exciting, experimental, far from musical convention and yet unmistakable - totally Joo Kraus! NO EXCUSE!