Jazz Articles about Nils Wogram

Nils Wogram/Konrad Bauer/Dominic Duval: Serious Fun + One

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2001

The CIMP meeting between German improvising trombonists Nils Wogram and Konrad Bauer captured on Serious Fun was one of the most unusual and satisfying entries in the label’s batch of 2000 releases. Unbeknownst to most listeners (myself included) the session that yielded that disc had an addendum. Bassist Dominic Duval, on return trip from Guelph, Ontario stopped by the Spirit Room shortly after the original session and joining the Germans engaged in a fruitful second one.

Duval’s presence makes for ...

Nils Wogram & Konrad Bauer: Serious Fun

by Derek Taylor
September 1, 2000

Though the instrumentation on this disc may initially seem striking, the antecedent for tandem trombone improvisation was actually set way back in the Bop era by J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding. Admittedly those two doyens of the jazz trombone never operated out of reach of a rhythm section and their material was of a far less free-form nature, but the spirit remains the same across the styles and the years. The free improvisatory possibilities of the instrument have since been ...