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Eddie Luis and His Jazz Passengers

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From 2005 to 2007, Eddie Luis managed Houseband in Joe Zawinul’s jazz club BIRDLAND which, due to a frequent change of musicians, was renamed JAZZ PASSENGERS – passers-by and passengers who come and go as a project or evening may require. From this time on, over 100 JP projects were enacted.

Creation/Idea:

in the first place Houseband of Joe Zawinul’s Bildrand Vienna

Foundation:

December 2005

Cast:

variable, Jazztrio + Saxophone/ /Trumpet/Trombone/Singer

Progress:

114 Projekts till now

Saison 12 (2020/21)

THE STORY
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JP MENU:

PRE-Saison 2005/2006(2007) - Joe Zawinul’s BIRDLAND Wien

  1. “LATTIN NIGHT” 

  2. “TRIBUTE TO NAT KING COLE” 

  3. “THE BALKAN JAZZ NIGHT” 

  4. “TRIBUTE TO RED GARLAND” 

  5. “TRIBUTE TO BUD POWELL”

  6. “TRIBUTE TO DJANGO REINHARDT” 

  7. “VOCROBATIC” 

  8. “ALL TIME TRIO” ​

  9. “TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON” 

  10. “BEAUTIFUL VOICES” Vol. 1 

  11. “HOT HOUSE OF BEBOP”

  12. “BEAUTIFUL VOICES” Vol. 2 

  13. “POETRIO” Vol. 1 

  14. “BEAUTIFUL VOICES” Vol. 3 

  15. “POETRIO” Vol. 2 

  16. “BALKAN-JAZZ”

I. Saison (2009/2010)

17.  The Duke Ellington Songbook 

18.  “Sound of a Trio” Vol. 1 

19.  The Cole Porter Book 

20.  Tribute to Horace Silver 

21.  “Sound of a Trio” Vol. 2

22.  “Monk´s Moods” – A Tribute to Thelonious Monk 

23.  “Passengers for Messengers” 

24.  “Best of Jazz” Nr. 1

25.  “Best of Jazz” Nr. 2

26.  “Sound of a Trio” Vol. 3 

27.  “Best of Jazz” Nr. 3 

28.  “Best of Jazz” Nr. 4 

29.  “Jazz am Mittwoch”

30.  “Hit the Jazz” 

II. Saison (2010/2011)

31.  “The George Gershwin Book” 

32.  “Tribute to Lee Morgan” 

33.  “Tribute to Hank Mobley”

34.  “Tribute to Tony Williams” 

35.  “Tribute to Oscar Peterson (Trio)” 

36.  “John Coltrane – Blue Train” 

37.  “Tribute to Clark Terry” 

38.  “BE-BOP-ART – Tribute to Art Blakey”

39.  “GO FOR JOE – Tribute to Joe Henderson” 

III. Saison (2011/2012)

40.  “A Shorter-Shot” – Tribute to Wayne Shorter 

41.  “BENNY GOLSONGS” – Tribute to Benny Golson 

42.  “Cannonballfire” – Tribute to Julian “Cannonball” Adderley 

43.  “Piano-Trio-Art” 

44.  “Ready for Freddie“ – Tribute to Freddie Hubbard 

45.  “Passengers go New Orleans” 

46.  “Miles after Miles” – Tribute to Miles Davis Sextet 

47.  “Sonny Spring” – Tribute to Sonny Rollins 

48.  “Jack´s Pot” – Tribute to Milt Jackson 

49.  “Made of Cedar” – Tribute to Cedar Walton 

IV. Saison (2012/2013)

50.  “BILLY STRAYHORN SONGBOOK” 

51.  Tribute to Luis Bonilla 

52.  “UGLY AND BEAUTY” – Tribute to Thelonious Monk 

53.  “PoeTrio” – Tribute to Bill Evans 

54.  “HIT THE DRUMS” – Tribute to Max Roach 

55.  “SWING-DING-A-LING” – Tribute to Benny Goodman 

56.  “The Blues and the Abstract Truth” – Tribute to Oliver Nelson

57.  “Trumpet on fire” – Tribute to Booker Little 

58.  “JAZZ PASSENGERS GO CUBA” – Tribute to Paquito D’Rivera 

59.  “LONG TALL DEX” – Tribute to Dexter Gordon 

V. Saison (2013/2014)

60.  “BUD BEAUTIFUL“ – Tribute to Bud Powell 

61.  Tribute to SWING 

62.  “Jazz Passengers go BALKAN” 

63.  “RONCARDO FURIOSO“ – Tribute to Chick Corea 

64.  “KING OF VIBES“ – A Tribute to Lionel Hampton 

65.  “THE ART OF THE CLARINET”

VI. Saison (2014/2015)

66.  “SILVER LININGS”- A Tribute to Horace Silver 

67.  “VibraPhoneCall” – SWING TOUR 2015 

68.  “PADUM” – Tribute to Jazz Drums

69.  “THE ANGRY MAN IN JAZZ” Tribute to Charles Mingus

70.  “TRUMPET LEGENDS” Tribute to Kenny Dorham

71.  “4 COLTRANE” Tribute to the John Coltrane Quartet 1960 

VII. Saison (2015/2016)

72.  “The magnificent THAD JONES” 

73.  “STEPKO GUT-SCETCHES OF BALKAN” 

74.  “TRIBUTE TO WOODY SHAW” 

75.  “YOU’VE GOT THAT SWING” 

76.  “JAZZ IM FRACK” Die Gnadenlosen -XL! – Tribute to Fletcher Henderson

77.  “TRIBUTE TO ARTIE SHAW” Feat. Daniel Ottensamer

78.  “JAZZ PASSENGERS PLAY SAMBA” 

79.  “TRIBUTE TO LENNIE TRISTANO” 

80.  “THE MUSIC OF JOSHUA REDMAN” 

81.  “WALKING WITH MILES DAVIS”

VIII. Saison (2016/2017)

82.  “TRIBUTE TO WAYNE SHORTER” 

83.  “BENNY & DJANGO” – Tribute to JIPSY SWING 1940

84.  X-Mas Special! “7 BEAUTIFUL VOICES in GRAZ” 

85.  “TRIBUTE TO JOE ZAWINUL 1966” 

86.  “JAZZ PASSENGERS for KIDS“ 

87.  “VARIETY STOMP” Die Gnadenlosen -XL! 

88.  “100 YEARS OF CLARINET” - THE BATTLE! 

89.  “RELAXIN’ WITH MILES DAVIS” 

90.  “TRIBUTE TO ART FARMER”

91.  “THE VIBRAPHONE KICK” Lionel Hampton 2 

IX. Saison (2017/2018)

92.  “LET’S JAZZ THE FRANZ!” – Tribute to Franz Schubert 

93.  “IN THE MOOD FOR BLUES?“

94.  “OVER THE RAINBOW” – Tribute to Harold Arlen 

95.  “GOOD VIBES FROM USA” – Tribute to Lionel Hampton & Benny Goodman

96.  “TROMBONE ON FIRE” – Tribute to the Jazz-Trombone

97.  “SOMETHING ELSE”

98.  “ANDREW SISTERS”

99.  Tribute to EDITH PIAF 

100.  Tribute to SONY CLARK

101. Tribute to BUDDY BOLDEN

X. Saison (2018/2019)

102.  “STJEPKO GUT IS THE BEST”

103.  „CLARIBONE SWING“

104.  “THE GEORGE SHEARING VOICING”

105.  “LIVE AT THE HALF NOTE – LEE KONITZ”

106.  „ENDLICH ELLA!“ – Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

107.  DIE GNADENLOSEN-XL “EARLY DUKE ELLINGTON MUSIC“

108.  “THE SERBIAN COL-TRAIN EXPRESS”

XI. Saison (2019/2020)

109.  "PianoForte" - Das Jazz Trio

110.  "TAKE FIVE" - Tribute to Dave Brubeck

111.  SUPREME SISTERS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

112.  "SWINNGING VIBES 2020"

113.  "THE COLE PORTER BOOK" - feat. Tanja Filipovic

XII. Saison (2020/2021)

114.  "100 YEARS OF BIRD" – Tribute to Charlie Parker

115.  Tribute to Nancy Wilson

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