Bremen, Germany. Annual trade fair, exhibition, and festival jazzahead! is one of the international jazz communityâs most important events. Hosted in Bremen, Germany, jazzahead! brings together musicians, bookers, agents, organizers, jazz experts, and music enthusiasts at the worldâs largest jazz event. In 2024, jazzahead! paid special attention to the jazz scene of the Netherlands and invited over forty jazz acts to perform over the course of three days. Among the bands presenting themselves at jazzahead! 2024 is the German sextet Meteors. Prominent Cologne-based bassist and composer Sebastian Gramss established the large ensemble States of Play in 2017, which earned a German Jazz Award. The ensembleâs inventive offshoot, the sextet Meteors, has been performing internationally since 2022. Gramss describes their acclaimed 2023 album âMessage to Outer Spaceâ as âa playfully balanced sonic report from Earth â diverse in sound, music and with a whimsically disturbing poetic messageâŚâ Meteors includes Shannon Barnett (trombone), Jonas Engel (saxophone), Philip Zoubek (piano, synthesizers), Christian Lorenzen (electric piano, synthesizers), Sebastian Gramss (double bass, composer), Dominik Mahnig (drums), and Stephan Vester (sound, effects).