Katharina Maschmeyer – tenor & soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Nils Pollheide – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass
Philipp Rüttgers – Hammond B3
Hardy Fischkötter – drums
They are back! GROOVE GROOVE GROOVE is the order of business now. The soulful saxophonist Katharina Maschmeyer and her longtime (musical) partner Nils Pollheide have been a confident, almost telepathically compatible team – with the excellent reputation of their jointly led KaMa Quartet / Katharina Maschmeyer Quartet, delighting audiences at festivals and big clubs alike in recent years, already preceding them. This is why they have repeatedly been awarded the title of one of the “leading and most innovative formations of the local jazz scene”.
The last album, dedicated to John Coltrane, was voted one of the best albums of the year by renowned magazine, Die Zeit. Now the band is waiting in the wings with a new, exciting cast, devilishly clever grooves, and crisp new compositions penned individually and collaboratively by guitarist Nils Pollheide and saxophonist Katharina Maschmeyer.
Their groove-oriented and at the same time eminently complex, yet never complicated modern jazz now gets added musical input from two fantastic new band members: Please welcome Dirk Schaadt on the Hammond B3, who has already teamed up with Nils Pollheide on his his debut album, and Hardy Fischkötter on drums. Some of the band membes have been playing together for many years, and they groove phenomenally.
“Fetch The Stick” is the title of the new album, which was released on VINYL LP in autumn 2023 and has also seen a digital release. In line with this title, one may imagine a Labrador mix with a drumstick in its mouth. This great, playful companion was not just the namesake for the new exciting project by Nils Pollheide and Katharina Maschmeyer, but has also significantly inspired the “animalistic“ groove of their music. So quite clearly, some compositions had to be named after the beloved comic figure Wicky The Viking. A formidable, multi-layered new concert program has slowly and organically arisen during the long, artistically fertile Covid phase – in combination with an equally traditional (sometimes reminiscent of the best Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott albums) as well as amazing new band sound. Check it out!
Katharina Maschmeyer is an incredibly talented saxophonist with a tone some players spend a career searching for and never find.
Brent Black / www.criticaljazz.com
The saxophonist with the powerful sound is lauded as one of the best new German jazz artists, and rightly so. …Her quartet has definitely proven that it’s a winner.
JazzThing
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