CD: The Kiss
Peter Materna
release date: 22 Oct 2021
A brand-new trio album by the renowned German saxophonist.
Peter Materna is a familiar face on the German jazz scene. Although the musician and festival director (Jazzfest Bonn) has been recording albums and performing on stage as a saxophonist for 30 years now—20 of those with his quartet, which has maintained the same lineup throughout—this album is nonetheless something different, something special.
“The Kiss” was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, when social life in general—and cultural life in particular—came to a near standstill.
Materna, born in 1965, plays on “The Kiss”—in a sort of cross-generational collaboration—with bassist Lisa Wulff and drummer Silvan Strauss, both born in 1990.
Wulff and Strauss, recipients of the Hamburg Jazz Prize, are undoubtedly among the best musicians of their generation in the genre. Together, this trio presents a perfect blend of modern jazz styles.
Peter Materna is a familiar face on the German jazz scene. Although the musician and festival director (Jazzfest Bonn) has been recording albums and performing on stage as a saxophonist for 30 years now—20 of those with his quartet, which has maintained the same lineup throughout—this album is nonetheless something different, something special.
“The Kiss” was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, when social life in general—and cultural life in particular—came to a near standstill.
Materna, born in 1965, plays on “The Kiss”—in a sort of cross-generational collaboration—with bassist Lisa Wulff and drummer Silvan Strauss, both born in 1990.
Wulff and Strauss, recipients of the Hamburg Jazz Prize, are undoubtedly among the best musicians of their generation in the genre. Together, this trio presents a perfect blend of modern jazz styles.