https://youtu.be/6oF7mmlCiu4

muzycy:
Roger Kintopf: bass
Dane Asger Nissen: alto saxophone
Victor Fox: tenor saxophone
Felix Ambach: drums

Editor's Info:
Do ensembles sound different under the leadership of a bassist? Is the rhythm perhaps more tiresome? Or do the leaders with the large wooden body of the bass in their hands pay more attention to shape and structure? Charles Mingus is regarded as the pioneer of an entire species that has emancipated itself from the background to the front, consciously seeking the spotlight to turn its own ideas and fantasies into tones and sound. One of Mingus's compositions was titled “Better Get It In Your Soul”. The essence of the bassist Mingus consisted of a wealth of ideas and at least just as much powerful energy. As an interpreter in his own right, every bassist has since been classified per se as a threat to every regular commercial operation. For good reason. Because when bassists get in the driving seat, it is no longer about swing in a well-groomed walking bass pulse, but about adventurous excursions into hitherto undiscovered worlds of music.

Bassists such as Mingus, but also Dave Holland, Barry Guy, Barre Philipps and currently Robert Landfernmann or Peter Eldh made it possible for ostinati suddenly to become a melody or shaping structure, a principle that Bela Bartok and Bruno Maderna had already practiced in modern classical music for a long time. However, this largely remained a neglected field in jazz. Bassist Roger Kintopf is only 21 years old. The native of Darmstadt has lived in Paris since 2019 when he continued this path at the Conservatory with the great Riccardo Del Fra; courageous, curious, full of ideas and fresh concepts. He began playing electric bass at the age of eleven, then switched to double bass, played in the Hessian State Youth Jazz Orchestra, in the Federal Jazz Orchestra from 2016 to 2018 and studied at the same time at the Cologne University of Music under Dietmar Fuhr, Dieter Manderscheid and Jonas Burgwinkel.

His second album (following the trio CD “GLA¨U¨O” with Amba.......
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