For many years, Joo Kraus has rightly been one of the most renowned jazz trumpeters in our latitudes. The trumpet was not placed directly in his cradle, but next to the exercise book: his father already played the trumpet and taught him the first fingerings. Joo Kraus' new album "No Excuse" is a musically colorful bag, socio-political discourse and above all it means one thing: good vibes. Crossing genre boundaries and dissolving style labels – for Joo Kraus, this is his great passion. The multi-award-winning trumpeter lives out this to the fullest with his new album. Joo Kraus is Joo Kraus – what sounds so self-evident is by no means anymore in today's world, because in the mercantile everyday life of the music industry, names are often reduced to brands. Not so with him. The fact that the trumpeter from Ulm wrote music history and earned a legendary reputation worldwide in the nineties with the acid jazz duo "Tab Two" is just as irrelevant to him as his proverbial activity in such diverse fields as Krautrock, jazz, hip-hop, Latin, ambient and singer-songwriter. For his new album "No Excuse" only one question counts: What do I have to say today? After a journey of almost forty years through almost all vegetation zones of music, there is no longer any need for explanations. The music can simply be what it is: one hundred percent Joo Kraus. Stylistic breadth has always been closer to him than committing to a specific genre. The colorfulness on "No Excuse" ranges from cool jazz to hip-hop, from pop to singer-songwriter, from ambient to funk. "I like so many things, and it has always been difficult for me to decide. Now I've just decided not to have to decide."

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