"As long as I can remember, I wanted to play jazz. And Brazilian music" - says jazz pianist from Munich Tizian Jost. He started early: at 16 he founded the first serious sextet, at 19 he became a house pianist in the legendary "Allotria", with 20 youngest member of the band Harald Rüschenbaum Bigband. Even as a teenager, he played with stars such as Mark Murphy, Dusko Goykovich, Tony Lakatos or Bobby Shew.

He achieved his first international successes together with saxophonist and painter Günther Klatt. A still-praised duke-Ellington ballad program has led the two on tour throughout Europe and - on behalf of the Goethe-Institut - through South and Central America and the Indian subcontinent. Countless bands from the "Wine & Roses Swing Orchestra" to Till Brönner have been using and making use of Jost's wonderful tone, his rhythmic and harmonic ingenuity and his almost encyclopedic style diversity.

Currently, Jost is a regular in the Stephan Holstein Trio, which has recently caused a stir with the jazz editing of classical literature, and the award-winning Till Martin Quartet, with whom he has recorded three CDs so far. In his own trio with bassist Thomas Stabenow and drummer Bastian Jütte, he is currently enchanted with an Antonio Carlos Jobim project.

 

Parallel to pure jazz, Jost cultivates his second love, Brazilian music. In 1990 he founded with the singer Lygia Campos the band "Domundo", which celebrated international successes until 2002. At times living in Rio, Jost has also played with many Brazilian stars, most recently with Leny Andrade and Viviane de Farias. Right from the beginning, Sophie Weiler's quintet "Zona Sul", which has set standards in Germany with the albums "Beira" and "Pure Love", also provides the right Latin tone for the keys.

It turned out to be a stroke of luck that the Munich Richard Strauss Conservatory in 1995 appointed the 28-year-old Tizian Jost as a lecturer for his young jazz section. Several of his students are today important figures in the German jazz scene, including Antje Uhle, Andrea Hermenau, Marc Schmolling, Jo Junghans, Christian Gall, Benedict Jahnel, Jan Faßbender, Helmut Sinz or Tim Allhoff.

A piano concert of Jost is full of energy, wonderful harmonies and magnificent technique.

 

 

 

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