![]() His first album, Generations of Jazz, with Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, Frank Chastenier and Grégoire Peters, was released in 1993. Malte Burba and the American jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew. Brönner studied jazz trumpet at the College of Music, Cologne. While he is known for his outstanding virtuosity, he is also referred to as a ‘German Chet Baker’. Till Brönner is Germany’s leading jazz trumpeter. ![]() It projects the cathartic discovery that no matter how much one has achieved in life, it’s always worth starting from scratch, over and over again. Not least of all, the album is a refreshing counterfoil in the age of perfectionism. The organic blend of willful abandon and understatement celebrated on this album is anything but run-of-the-mill. It’s a resolute dismissal of entrenched prejudices and a passionate affirmation of the freedom and miracle of jazz. It’s at once a consummation, a stocktaking and a promise for the future. It’s a début album and, at the same time, the fruit of a long and intensive collaboration between two great storytellers. The album Nightfall includes songs by Leonard Cohen, the Beatles and Britney Spears, pieces by Jerome Kern, Johnny Green and Ornette Coleman, compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and Melchior Vulpius, even a few creations of their own. If jazz was ever an expression of individual liberty, then this independence is manifest here. ![]() The choice of pieces is sufficient proof that the musicians did not want to pin themselves down to a fixed classification or pigeonhole. This osmosis is now plain to hear on their joint début album, Nightfall, which is released end of January 2018. As a result, they fit each other to a tee. They often seek to do the very same thing on their antithetical instruments, even if they express it in quite different ways. They are, in the full sense, soul-mates, no matter how threadbare the term might sound. One of these constellations is the duo formed by the Berlin trumpeter Till Brönner and the Freiburg bass player Dieter Ilg. And when they finally do see the light of day, they appear so familiar to us as if we’d known them for ages. Some musical constellations are so obvious that the question arises why they hadn’t become reality long ago. With this project, I have realised a long-held dream of mine.” TILL BRÖNNER and DIETER ILG “Throughout my career I have had the desire to reduce things to their essentials.
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