PETER EHWALD / STEFAN SCHULTZE - STAMP

12.11.2023

CD jw 238 PETER EHWALD / STEFAN SCHULTZE
STAMP

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PETER EHWALD tenor saxophone
TOMASZ DĄBROWSKI trumpet
STEFAN SCHULTZE piano
ANDREAS LANG double bass
MORITZ BAUMGÄRTNER drums

1 No One
2 Return To Sender
3 Oumuamua
4 Captain Underpants
5 How High
6 Imago
7 Suntrooper
8 Too Old For Too Many

The quintet line-up around Peter Ehwald and Stefan Schultze with its traditional form of tenor saxophone, trumpet plus piano trio is a declaration of love for jazz and at the same time creates a context that is an invitation to reposition oneself. The basic principle of the STAMP quintet is the idea of developing music that leaves as much room as possible for development within a limited framework. No over-information - the compositions formulate the most important conditions for creating improvisational moments for the ensemble - directly and emotionally. Two very different and exciting soloists (trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski from Malmö and saxophonist Peter Ehwald from Berlin) set contrapuntal accents. The piano trio with Stefan Schultze from Berne and the Berliners Andreas Lang (b) and Moritz Baumgärtner (dr) fills and interprets the spaces of this music in a surprising and grandiose way.
"Basically, it's not about pitches, rhythms or harmonies, but about what the jazz quintet sound means to us. We wanted to translate a kind of nostalgia, or the meaning of an earlier time into our sonic language and into the here and now," explains Schultze.