A voice that stays. A presence that reaches far beyond the jazz club. Atrin Madani belongs to a new generation of artists who understand jazz not as the past, but as music for today.
From Berlin, his path leads him onto the great stages — with a voice full of elegance and warmth, a natural closeness to the audience, and the aim of making jazz what it can be again: music for everyone.
Jazz for people.
EVENTS
2026
- 28. October Remembering Roger Hamburg Remembering Roger Hamburg Tickets
- 30. October Remembering Roger Hamburg NICA Hamburg Remembering Roger NICA Hamburg Hamburg Tickets
- 31. October Remembering Roger Berlin Remembering Roger Berlin Tickets
- 01. November Remembering Roger Berlin Remembering Roger Berlin Tickets
All about Atrin
Atrin Madani is one of the most exciting voices of a new generation of jazz. Born and raised in Berlin as the son of Iranian immigrants, he combines musical tradition with a natural openness to the present. His warm, distinctive voice, his sense for great songs and his immediate closeness to the audience have long carried him far beyond the Berlin jazz scene.
With his 2023 debut album Where Are We Now?, nominated for the German Jazz Prize as “Debut Album of the Year”, Madani drew attention beyond his home scene for the first time. On the album, generations and genres meet: songs by David Bowie, Steely Dan and Nick Drake stand alongside other formative pieces from his musical upbringing – connected by a very personal idea of what jazz can be today.
Musically, Madani grew up with the great singers: Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Andy Williams and Tony Bennett shaped his idea of phrasing, elegance and storytelling. But instead of reproducing their past, he looks for what this tradition can mean today. Songs by David Bowie, Steely Dan, Michael Franks, Coldplay or Nick Drake find their place in his repertoire just as naturally.
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Meanwhile this path takes him from intimate jazz clubs onto some of the great concert stages. Madani sings with big bands and orchestras, has been a guest of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Big Band and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, and in 2025 appeared at Classic Open Air on Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt as support for Gregory Porter before nearly 6,000 people. With “Remembering Roger” he also shares the stage with Roger Cicero’s original big band and its long-time musical director and arranger Lutz Krajenski – not as an imitation, but as a new voice carrying Cicero’s musical legacy into the present. Concerts increasingly take Madani beyond Germany as well.
For all his musical versatility, the core remains the same: Madani does not want to make music for a small circle of insiders. For him, jazz begins where a song tells a story and something emerges between the stage and the audience.
“In jazz we often try to make too much art and forget that the greatest art can lie in touching people.”
Perhaps Atrin Madani’s understanding of music can therefore be summed up most simply in three words:
Jazz for people.
Projects
Atrin Madani & Band
With his band, Atrin Madani brings jazz to the stage that connects great tradition with the present. Together with outstanding musicians from the European jazz scene, the Berlin singer creates a sound that is elegant and timeless – and at the same time immediate and full of joy in playing.
At the centre are Madani’s own compositions and his very personal way of storytelling. Selected songs by artists such as David Bowie, Steely Dan or Nick Cave also find their way into the repertoire – music that at first seems far outside classic jazz and finds a new language in the hands of the band.
Every concert lives from the interplay of the musicians. There is room for improvisation and spontaneous moments without losing sight of a song’s story. Madani’s warm voice and natural connection to the audience stand in dialogue with a band whose members bring their own musical handwriting.
Night after night, a concert emerges that works just as well in an intimate jazz club as on a large festival stage: sophisticated, entertaining and open to an audience far beyond the borders of jazz.
Jazz for people.
- Atrin Madani - voc
- Hila Kulik - p
- Alexander Ruess - git
- Olaf Casimir - db
- Amir Bresler/Marc Michel - dr
Atrin Madani & Paul Hankinson
Two musicians, one voice and a piano – that is all it takes.
For many years, Atrin Madani and Australian pianist Paul Hankinson have shared a special musical partnership. Together they appear regularly at the legendary Berlin BAR JEDER VERNUNFT, where the intimacy of their duo and the unique atmosphere of the house seem made for each other.
At the centre are great songs and the stories they tell. Hankinson’s sensitive, unmistakable piano playing meets Madani’s warm voice – spontaneous, immediate and without the distance of a large arrangement. Original compositions sit just as naturally beside surprising reinterpretations of selected songs from jazz and pop.
It is precisely this reduction that gives both musicians the freedom to let each evening emerge anew. Arrangements change in the moment; there is room for improvisation, humour and an immediate connection with the audience.
An intimate musical dialogue between two artists in which sometimes a grand piano and a voice are enough to fill an entire room.
Atrin Madani with Orchestra or Big Band
When Atrin Madani meets a big band or orchestra, his music gains a new dimension. The power of a large ensemble, orchestral colours and sophisticated arrangements combine with a voice that keeps its closeness to the song and the audience even within a large sound.
Madani has already worked with renowned ensembles such as the Hessischer Rundfunk Big Band (Frankfurt Radio Big Band), the Deutsche Oper Berlin Big Band and the Bremen Philharmonic. On large concert and festival stages, a side of the singer emerges that moves naturally between the intimacy of a vocalist and the energy of a large ensemble.
The repertoire ranges from jazz and songs arranged especially for large ensembles to pop and cross-genre programmes. What matters is not orchestral scale for its own sake, but the song and its story. Powerful ensemble passages alternate with intimate moments and create space for Madani’s warm, unmistakable sound.
Whether with big band or symphony orchestra, in the concert hall or under the open sky: Atrin Madani with Orchestra or Big Band combines the elegance of large arrangements with the immediacy of a singer who wants to reach his audience – grand in sound, personal in the moment.
LUTZ KRAJENSKI BIG BAND feat. ATRIN MADANI –
“Remembering Roger”
With „Remembering Roger“ bring Lutz Krajenski and Roger Cicero’s original big band the music of one of Germany’s most important jazz entertainers back to the stage – together with Atrin Madani as singer and host.
For many years Lutz Krajenski was musical director, arranger and close companion to Roger Cicero. Together with the musicians of the original band he shaped the unmistakable sound that made Cicero’s music known far beyond jazz. Today this ensemble meets Atrin Madani – a new voice that approaches the songs with great respect for their history and at the same time with a musical personality of his own.
This is expressly not about imitation. „Remembering Roger“ is an emotional continuation of this music by the musicians who created, recorded and performed it with Roger Cicero on countless stages.
As singer and host, Madani guides the evening and, together with Lutz Krajenski, creates the link between memory and the present.
The first concerts drew enthusiastic reactions in sold-out houses – including standing ovations already before the interval. The press speaks of a “excellent performance”a “remarkably assured, mature vocal performance” and a “magnificent concert”.
What emerges is not a classic tribute concert, but an evening full of energy, elegance, humour and emotion – with a big band that does not merely play this music, but has lived its history itself.
Remembering Roger – the memory lives on.
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