"Club of the Year" German Jazz Award 2021
After more than 30 years, the LOFT in Cologne is one of the cities oldest cultural businesses, and a valued performance and production location for improvised music, contemporary music and jazz with a national and international reputation. More than 200 events are hosted per year (reference: 2019)
“… The LOFT has long gained world fame. The judgment is hardly exaggerated: The puristic continuity, where the most important musicians of contemporary jazz and new music are presented here on a non-profit basis and driven solely by the enthusiasm of the organizer and the musicians every week, cannot be found in Berlin, not in Paris, not in Tokyo. ”Stadtrevue 2010
"It’s a special phenomenon in itself that a non-profit concert venue of such great importance exists at all."
08/2018 sound of #urbanana
“Jazz is thought ahead here” Zeit Magazin Nr 32 08/2017
one of "10 of the best jazz clubs in Europe" The Guardian, 2016