For exactly 50 years Birmingham and Frankfurt am Main have been twinned. To mark the occasion, today's guest is a jazz quartet with diverse musical and biographical connections between the two cities and Europe. Brothers Julian and Steve Argüelles grew up in Birmingham.
Saxophonist, composer and arranger Julian Argüelles has won numerous fans in Frankfurt through his membership of the hr-Bigband for several years.
Stephen "Steve" Argüelles is a producer, drummer and percussionist, restless experimenter and hungry consumer of musical alternatives.
Pianist Pablo Held's recordings have been highly praised by the worldwide press. He is a lecturer at the Institute of Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and gives workshops worldwide.
Bassist Robert Landfermann presents improvised music with interesting personalities of German jazz in Cologne
