Working Band
Groove jazz between funk, reggae and Brazilian influences
- Label
- Indigo Records 1005 CD, 2002
- Recorded
- 2002, 2 and 3 January in Cologne, at Christian Heck’s Loft Studio
- Mixed
- in January at Pulsar Studio by Andi Reisner
15,– € incl. VAT, postage and packing
Tracks
- Yellow Earth (Summer Piece)
- Dragon City
- I Fall In Love Too Easily
- Water Music
- Try It Again
- Summertime
- People
- Romero
- Weathercock´s Call
- Lefthanded Blues
- Sidewalk Stories
- Behind The Clouds – Your Face
- People (radio edit)
To listen to: Yellow Earth, Water Music and Sidewalk Stories
Line-up
- Matthias Petzold tenor and soprano saxophone
- Christian Winninghoff trumpet, flugelhorn
- Hanno Busch guitar
- Nils Imhorst electric bass, double bass
- Roland Höppner drums
- Roland Peil percussion
- Ariane Baumgartner vocals
Press
“The Working Band of saxophonist and cellist Matthias Petzold has taken up this craft (funk jazz – ed.) with verve and conviction … Powerful numbers such as ‘Dragon City’ or a lyrical ‘Summertime’ – a song heard a thousand times, but shaped here in a fresh and surprising way – show real craftsmanship, sensitivity and tight band work.”
Jazzpodium
“Matthias Petzold, the saxophonist and composer from Brühl near Cologne, really knows his stuff when it comes to crisp grooves. With his Working Band, made up of top players from the Rhineland jazz scene such as trumpeter Christian Winninghoff and the ever-busy percussionist Roland Peil, Petzold serves up, on the debut CD of his seven-piece outfit, modern jazz compositions marked by beautifully interlocking parts and fine solo lines, which grow out of the loose groove laid down by the rhythm section and wind their way through the pieces.”
Feedback
“You like jazz, but you don’t want it to be shapeless background music for a bar, nor to sprawl into overly insistent improvised arias? Then ‘Elements’ by the Matthias Petzold Working Band could be the CD for you … Plenty of variety, then – and yet a buoyant, summery mood runs through the whole CD and makes the record feel all of a piece.”
Brigitte