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Simon Nabatov Quartet featuring Ralph Alessi: Lovely Music

Read "Lovely Music" reviewed by John Sharpe


An alternative title for Lovely Music by Russian-born, German -based pianist Simon Nabatov might be Greatest Hits. He has selected some of his most tuneful works from across his career for interpretation by a quintet which includes American trumpeter Ralph Alessi in a one-off performance. Completing the lineup of this 2021 live date from Nabatov's home from home, Loft in Cologne, are more regular colleagues saxophonist Sebastian Gille, bassist David Helm and drummer Leif Berger. However, it presents not as ...

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Moritz Stahl: Traumsequenz

Read "Traumsequenz" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Swabian-born saxophonist Moritz Stahl's direct and purposeful debut, Traumsequenz is certainly, as translated, a dream sequence, but its seventeen intimate miniatures could also serve as long-lost themes to long-lost noir TV shows about down-and-out detectives on the case of any moral lassitude. But the true intent of Stahl and his equally goal-oriented bandmates--pianist Julius Windisch, guitarist Philipp Schiepek, bassist Lorenz Heigenhuber, and drummer Leif Berger--is to willfully include the listener as an active participant in the creative process. ...

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Rebekka Ziegler: Salomea

Read "Salomea" reviewed by Tyran Grillo


Salomea is a genre-hopping group led by Cologne-based vocalist Rebekka Salomea Ziegler, and in this self-titled debut it reveals as much about what influences and inspires its members as about the newness those musicians can fashion from socio-cultural building blocks. Remarkable for such a song-focused project is how much each member stands out in relief. From the opening skitter of “Magnolia Tree," for instance, we recognize the ability of drummer Leif Berger to transport the listener into a sound-world all ...


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