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  • 2026 Feb 27
    Bern (CH)
    Cava Hispania (Wein & Bistro)
    Sous Les Étoiles
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  • Morpho

    In 2025 we released our current album »Morpho«. You can listen to single tracks through this Website.
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  • Sous les Étoiles

    From October 2025 until April 2026 my steady-gig-series »Sous Les Étoiles« takes place for a 12th time in the old town of Bern at the wine bistro »Cava Hispania«.
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"Dahanukar is one of the most exciting musicians working today in Europe, and one of the most precious ... He has a genius for pacing an album. "
—Brian Morton (Jazz Journal, England)

"Dahanukar ist einer der grossen Stilisten des Schweizer Jazz und der vermutlich coolste Trompeter des Landes."
—Ane Hebeisen (Der Bund, Bern)

"Ce qui ressort du trompettiste Martin Dahanukar, c'est sa sonorité limpide puissante à la manière d'un Paolo Fresu."
—Mathieu Durand (Jazz Magazine, Paris)

"Martin Dahanukar has a nice warm open horn sound, with a very lyric heart that he wears easily on his sleeve without ever once sounding trite...The group's music is enjoyable and expansive, with the genuine sound of discovery in it, always tonal but new and exploratory as well."
—Phillip McNally (Cadence, New York)

"Der Trompeter Martin Dahanukar gehört heute zu den wichtigsten Jazzmusikern in Bern."
—Lukas Nussbaumer (Berner Kulturagenda, Bern)

"Here is Jazz as it should be. Dahanukar's compositions are strong, melodic, questioning, challenging. Dahanukar's trumpet is serious, as is his band."
—Ranjona Banerji, DNA, Mumbai

"Von Martin Dahanukar lässt sich unumwunden sagen, was eigentlich jeder Jazzmusiker von sich behaupten möchte: Er ist ein Original."
—Ueli Bernays (NZZ, Zürich)

inspirations, insights & influences

Miles Davis, Gabriel García Márquez, Wayne Shorter, Pedro Almodóvar, Prince, Roy Hargrove, David Oistrach, Duke Ellington, Sly & the Family Stone, Igor Stravinsky (Sacre du Printemps pour 2 pianos), Pablo Picasso, James Brown, John Coltrane, Béla Bartók (String Quartets), Elvin Jones, Erykah Badu, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, The Meters, Lee Morgan, Stevie Wonder, Tomasz Stańko, Clyde »funky drummer« Stubblefield, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dexter Gordon, Donald Byrd, Art Blakey, D'Angelo, Bill Evans, Jon Hassell, Shirley Horn, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Frank Ocean, Beach House, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Parker, Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love/2046), Joe Zawinul, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Randy Weston, Gustave Flaubert (L’Éducation sentimentale), ?uestlove, Roy Haynes, David Lynch, Chick Corea, Fjodor Dostojewski (The Brothers Karamazov & Demons), B.B. King, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (La plus secrète mémoire des hommes), Idris Muhammad, Daido Moriyama, Ahmad Jamal, Alfred Döblin (Berlin Alexanderplatz), Bobby Hutcherson, Stan Getz, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Surashri Kesarbar Kerkar, Orson Welles (Touch of Evil), Ron Carter, Amartya Sen (The Argumentative Indian), Woody Shaw, Zadie Smith (White Teeth), Don Cherry, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey), Astor Piazolla, Daniyal Mueenuddin (In Other Rooms, Other Wonders), Parliament, Samara Krähenbühl, Earth, Wind & Fire, A Tribe Called Quest, Steve McQueen, Yohji Yamamoto, Donald Brown, Juan Rulfo, Fela Kuti, Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo), Maya Angelou, Talvin Singh, James Baldwin, Isaak Babel, Marc Chagall, Marc Aurel, Matisse, Graham Haynes, Caravaggio, William Dalrymple (City of Djinns & The Age of Kali)



»The space between the notes is where the soul lives.«

»Art is the absence of fear.«

»One note can say more than a thousand.«

»The creator doesn't give you what you asked for, it gives you what you are.«

»Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent.
The attitude of the motherf****r who plays it is 80 percent.«

»Weine nicht, dass es ist vorüber, lächle, dass es war«

»I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath
as long as he can swing.«

»Wir sind auch das, was wir verloren haben.«

»The past is always new, the future is always nostalgic.«

»You have to learn how to die, if you wanna be alive«

»Humanity is my instrument«

»First listen, then play.«

»Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.«

»Music isn't about hype, but about craft.
The real magic is not in the crowd, it's in the connection.«

»Music is philosophy. It ain't about notes!
There are so many people playing so good, but they still cannot tell a story.«

»A day of playing is a ritual day... 'cause it is a sanctuary when you're up there onstage. You are on a place by yourself. That's the most gracious gift to be allowed!«

»Hey Wayne, do you ever feel like you wanna play, like you don't know how to play? …
Do you feel like you have to play music, that doesn't sound like music?«

»No legacy is so rich as honesty.«

»Recorder es volver a vivir«

»Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.«

»In movies you don't trying to photograph the reality,
you trying to photograph the photograph of the reality«

»The whole process of the movie was a discovery...
it was never about the result.«

»We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
and our little life is rounded with sleep.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player.
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.
And then is heard no more.
It is a tale, Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.«