Jazztube is back! Friday saw the opening round of this year’s competition that culminates in the top three voted bands appearing at Pantheon Bonn in October. There’s a long wsay to go yet of course, but already the ‘chalk & cheese’ problem is happening. How can you choose between the melancholic Cuban sound of Cuarteto Pasatiempo (Hauptbahnhof), the soft atmospheric soundcarpet of KNUD (Uni/Markt) and the aggressive attack of Jazzrock presented by Phalanx (Heussallee/Museumsmeile)?.

I wonder how many of the listeners actually make the rounds to all three stations, especially with the unreliability of the trams. But if you only find one group, and find yourself staying for all three sets by them, that’s fine too. Jazz is after all for relaxing and not tram hopping!