Annual trade fair, exhibition, and festival jazzahead! is one of the international jazz community's most important events. Hosted in Bremen, Germany, jazzahead! brings together musicians, bookers, agents, organizers, jazz experts, and music enthusiasts at the world's largest jazz event. In 2023, jazzahead! paid special attention to Germany's jazz scene and invited thirty jazz acts from all over the world to perform over the course of three days. Among the artists presenting themselves at jazzahead! 2023 is the German ensemble Mother. Bringing diverse sounds from tradition and modernity to the fore in their Balkan-inspired free jazz, Greek-German bassist Athina Kontou connects her identity as a jazz musician with her Greek roots. Mother's debut album Tzivaeri celebrates the richness and beauty of cultural diversity and has been nominated for the German Record Critics Award in two categories.