{"version":1,"state":"ready_for_manual_post","account":"@openearmedia","feature":{"slug":"felix-hauptmann-yards-empathy-cologne-2026","title":"Felix Hauptmann leaves room for five voices to meet","pageUrl":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/felix-hauptmann-yards-empathy-cologne-2026","eventStartDate":"2026-09-11T21:00:00+02:00","updatedAt":"2026-08-26T13:52:43Z"},"caption":"Felix Hauptmann usually writes music his trio rehearses until complex scores can move like free improvisation. YARDS & EMPATHY changes the conditions: a new five-piece commission, two rehearsal days, and material designed to get out of the musicians’ way.\n\nHauptmann chose the people before the notes. Longtime PERCUSSION bassist Roger Kintopf carries six years of shared language; flutist Ketija Ringa Karahona, trumpeter Lina Allemano and drummer Francisco Mela open that language toward breath, extended color and a different sense of time.\n\nIn Cologne Jazzweek’s official interview, Hauptmann says the writing must be clear and compact so the band can reach playing, improvising and shaping—not spend the whole rehearsal learning content. Our feature follows that decision through every member’s music and the Stadtgarten room that helped commission it.\n\nFRI 11 SEP · doors 20:00 · music 21:00\nSTADTGARTEN SAAL · COLOGNE\n\nFull story: https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/felix-hauptmann-yards-empathy-cologne-2026\n\n@felix_hauptmann @cologne_jazzweek @stadtgarten_koeln","hashtags":["#FelixHauptmann","#YardsAndEmpathy","#CologneJazzweek","#CologneJazz","#ImprovisedMusic"],"mentions":[{"role":"piano and composition","name":"Felix Hauptmann","handle":"@felix_hauptmann","verifiedBySourceId":"nica-hauptmann"},{"role":"flute","name":"Ketija Ringa Karahona","handle":"@ketijaringa","verifiedBySourceId":"ketija-instagram"},{"role":"trumpet and artist-run label","name":"Lina Allemano / Lumo Records","handle":"@lumo_records","verifiedBySourceId":"lina-bio"},{"role":"double bass","name":"Roger Kintopf","handle":"@rogerkintopf","verifiedBySourceId":"roger-structucture"},{"role":"drums","name":"Francisco Mela","handle":"@musicandmela","verifiedBySourceId":"mela-berklee"},{"role":"presenter","name":"Cologne Jazzweek","handle":"@cologne_jazzweek","verifiedBySourceId":"jazzweek-event"},{"role":"venue","name":"Stadtgarten Köln","handle":"@stadtgarten_koeln","verifiedBySourceId":"stadtgarten-event"}],"slides":[{"order":1,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/felix-hauptmann-yards-empathy-cologne-2026/social/01.jpg","alt":"Cover slide with intersecting cyan and orange circles: Felix Hauptmann plus YARDS & EMPATHY. It asks what a composer can leave out so five musicians get to the playing, and identifies Cologne Jazzweek on September 11, 2026.","sha256":"304067989a04f585acf269b57dd6b3235fe7be6294bb202d2226a0d7bc06cdc3"},{"order":2,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/felix-hauptmann-yards-empathy-cologne-2026/social/02.jpg","alt":"Timeline titled A Different Way to Arrive: PERCUSSION begins intensive rehearsal in 2020, PERCUSSION III documents six years of trust in April 2026, and YARDS & EMPATHY gives the new quintet two rehearsal days in September 2026.","sha256":"3c4e316ae21b73e3c36cdda823b915d5761b37aadc5b8942f642a8d136887771"},{"order":3,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/felix-hauptmann-yards-empathy-cologne-2026/social/03.jpg","alt":"Premiere details for Friday, September 11, 2026: doors 20:00, music 21:00 at Stadtgarten Saal, Venloer Straße 40, Cologne. Complete lineup: Ketija Ringa Karahona, flute; Lina Allemano, trumpet; Felix Hauptmann, piano and composition; Roger Kintopf, bass; Francisco Mela, drums.","sha256":"7861f12c044d100014d0fd6292fc8055530cb21dfb148a98e95b11bea0e9cff2"},{"order":4,"url":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/felix-hauptmann-yards-empathy-cologne-2026/social/04.jpg","alt":"Verified music accounts for the quintet, presenter and venue: Felix Hauptmann, Ketija Ringa Karahona, Lina Allemano through Lumo Records, Roger Kintopf, Francisco Mela, Cologne Jazzweek and Stadtgarten Köln. The slide credits original Open Ear Media artwork and states that no artist or event photography was reused.","sha256":"0f2fd51f1154b73db86b3959d70079a011cfdc3b83d9c2f13fd4759d189e8df9"}],"contactSheetUrl":"https://jazzdatebook.com/featured-shows/felix-hauptmann-yards-empathy-cologne-2026/social/contact-sheet.jpg","altText":"Four-slide Open Ear Media carousel about Felix Hauptmann’s YARDS & EMPATHY premiere. It introduces the two-rehearsal-day compositional constraint, contrasts it with six years of PERCUSSION trio development, gives the complete September 11 Stadtgarten lineup and practical details, and ends with verified artist, presenter and venue handles plus the original-art credit.","automaticPostingAllowed":false}