Caris Hermes // bassist - composer

Credit: Lutz Voigtländer

AWARDED THE WDR JAZZ PRIZE 2024

Caris Hermes goes on tour with WDR Big Band

Her stylistic impartiality, elegant phrasing, and rhythmic flexibility convinced the jury. The award ceremony at the Bonn Pantheon Theater will take place on March 14, 2024. A four-day tour with the WDR Big Band follows.

LIVE

30.04.24KölnChris Hopkins meets the Young Lions

01.05.24KölnKing Georg Session

15.05.24AachenMikhail Churilov Quartet

17.05.24KölnCaris Hermes Group feat. Paul Heller

24.05.24HildenCaris Hermes Quartett @ Hildener Jazztage

09.06.24DürenCaris Hermes Quartett ft. Billy Test

26.06.24HürthFay Claassen – Paul Heller Quartett

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ALBUM OUT NOW!

Debut album reaches over 2,700,000 streams.

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Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media

Credit: Karl F. Degenhardt

Lady sings the bass

For 15 years now, bassist Caris Hermes has been unleashing her luminous world of sound full of references, ramifications and sensitive moods. Everything seems possible for her in the field of tension between swing, groove, straight ahead and subtle modern jazz…

CARIS HERMES GROUP

… is a changing duo to sextet ensemble with the best musicians of the German jazz scene. Modern straight ahead jazz from Cologne. Caris Hermes celebrates the full range of her instrument with finesse and elegance.