Enjoy Jazz Festival 2025
Opening with Ibrahim Maalouf, closing with Anouar Brahem
On Thursday, October 2, 2025, the opening concert of the 27th Enjoy Jazz Festival will take place at the BASF Feierabendhaus Ludwigshafen. In co-production with the BASF cultural program, Germany's largest jazz festival will present the French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf with a large ensemble. The versatile artist is a superstar in his native France and fills arenas with his combination of Arabic music and jazz, pop and rock elements. The event partners BASF and Enjoy Jazz have been jointly presenting concerts as part of the festival since 2004 and confirm another highlight of this year's festival edition with the duo concert by pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith (both USA) on October 28 at the BASF-Gesellschaftshaus Ludwigshafen. The final concert of the "Festival for Jazz and More" will take place on Saturday, november 8 at the Christuskirche Mannheim. A quartet led by the Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem will then present pieces from his latest work "After the Last Sky", which will be released on March 28 on the legendary ECM label.