The prize winners of the university's internal competition of the jazz department, which took place at the beginning of December last year under the motto "The Music of Miles Davis", will give a concert entitled Jazz Lounge in the foyer of the Tauberphilharmonie in Weikersheim on March 5, 2022. Original compositions and arrangements of jazz standards will be presented - always revolving around the piano. The duo Jona Heckmann and Jakob Koch, who already met in 2017 at the HfM Würzburg and played together in various combos, but only came together as a duo on the occasion of the last competition of the jazz department, will be heard. Through the use of grand piano and double bass as well as various percussion elements, very traditional and familiar sound ideals are represented on the one hand, while on the other hand additional instruments such as the Fender Rhodes and an analog Moog synthesizer bring new colors to the compositions. The two musicians can creatively combine the sounds of the instruments with the help of a loop station, which allows certain sequences to be recorded and played back live while playing. The Julia Langenbucher Quintet will also be performing, featuring Julia Langenbucher (saxophone, composition), Vera Krumgant (vocals), Victoria Pohl (piano), Thomas Eilingsfeld (bass) and Maximilian Autsch (drums). Starting from European Modern Creative Jazz, they play with influences from world music. Framed by the saxophonist's own compositions, an energy is created that sometimes expresses itself in calmly radiant sounds and melodies, sometimes in wild rhythmic passages or even in childlike craziness. A concert of the Julia Langenbucher Quintet is an entering into dialogue with the musicians and their experiences. It is an invitation "Into the Now" towards an encounter with beauty, tension, sometimes even chaos, with determination, joy, wit and exuberance. The Julia Langenbucher Quintet was in the final of FUTURE SOUNDS 21, the competition of the Leverkusen Jazztage.