JAZZ?!

When everything is simple …

Sometimes things work out quite easy: Knowing three gift ideas at the drop of a hat, train connections that are on time or a band text that can be written down in one go. It was similar when we five Berlin musicians thought in autumn 2022: Let’s make music together! We were amazed to discover that we, our music, our lifestyles and passions fit together.

What has emerged since then is music with the potential to make people happy: Beautiful & Wild. Familiar & disturbing. Complicated & Straightforward. Fine instrumentalists & virtuoso show-offs. Jazz. Although: is that still jazz? Or indie? Or both? Or simply a highly improvisational, undogmatic approach that fuses the most diverse musical styles such as jazz, dub, krautrock and funk. Sometimes danceable, sometimes melancholic, sometimes like the background music of a film or like a journey into the weightlessness of outer space?

ASK GONZALO is the further evolution of many ideas Florian and Peter released in the formation TRANSIT ELEKTRO during the 2010s.

And ASK GONZALO – why this name? We’ll be happy to explain that at a concert!

JAZZ?!

When everything is simple …

Sometimes things work out quite easy: Knowing three gift ideas at the drop of a hat, train connections that are on time or a band text that can be written down in one go. It was similar when we five Berlin musicians thought in autumn 2022: Let’s make music together! We were amazed to discover that we, our music, our lifestyles and passions fit together.

What has emerged since then is music with the potential to make people happy: Beautiful & Wild. Familiar & disturbing. Complicated & Straightforward. Fine instrumentalists & virtuoso show-offs. Jazz. Although: is that still jazz? Or indie? Or both? Or simply a highly improvisational, undogmatic approach that fuses the most diverse musical styles such as jazz, dub, krautrock and funk. Sometimes danceable, sometimes melancholic, sometimes like the background music of a film or like a journey into the weightlessness of outer space?

ASK GONZALO is the further evolution of many ideas Florian and Peter released in the formation TRANSIT ELEKTRO during the 2010s.

And ASK GONZALO – why this name? We’ll be happy to explain that at a concert!

WHO IS ASK GONZALO?

ARMANDO
ARMANDOTrumpet
The Spaniard Armando Carrillo Zanuy can do anything on the trumpet and, as an experienced big band leader, lets nothing get him down.
KOTA
KOTAGuitar
Kota Maeda comes from Japan – and from the blues. Rather quiet during rehearsals, a guitar dervish on stage.
PETER
PETERPiano
Peter Herzau listens, lays down sound carpets with his Fender Rhodes and develops his deconstructive solos according to the principles of Gestalt psychology.
FRANCISCO
FRANCISCODrums
Francisco P. Riccheri from Argentina is the young wild one and drums with such ease that you think he is sitting on a flying carpet.
FLORIAN
FLORIANBass
Florian Scheffler aka DDIY is the musical multi-talent, he is the motor that makes such projects and inspiring bass lines possible.

LIVE DATES

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NEW EP (2024):
ASK GONZALO – Ask Gonzalo Remixed

ALBUM (2023):
ASK GONZALO – Ask Gonzalo

NEW ALBUM:
ASK GONZALO – Ask Gonzalo