Die Verwandlung

Frederik Köster & Die Verwandlung – Golden Age (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:31 minutes | 551 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Traumton

Once again, The Metamorphosis lives up to its name. On their new album, the top-class quartet of award-winning musical personalities (a total of six jazz echoes, New German Jazz Award, WDR Jazz Award) once again accomplishes a stylistic and tonal change of direction. Especially in direct comparison to his Homeward Bound Suite released in 2018. The spectacular orchestral work was widely praised at the time, for example as “a successful interweaving of jazz and classical elements with emotional depth” (Jazz Podium). The Swiss magazine Jazz’n’More found: “The quartet stringently implements the orchestra’s timbres and Frederik Köster’s solos conclusively lay over rhythmic patterns And the Badische Zeitung positioned the band leader at “the top of German jazz. Köster’s trumpet, elegantly and stubbornly lined with occasional loop echoes, clearly stands out from icons like Miles Davis and Chet Baker.

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