Lucas Niggli's Big Zoom: Dance for Hermeto

Lucas Niggli's BIG ZOOM:
Claudio Puntin - clarinet, bass clarinet

Nils Wogram - trombone

Philipp Schaufelberger - guitar

Peter Herbert - bass

Lucas Niggli - drums, percussion

"BIG ZOOM" remains a jazz-combo, a chamber music-ensemble, and a rock-band even as a quintet. True to this the music races along the heights and pitfalls of contemporary music. The group makes a bow to tradition here and jumps into the unknown there.

With his trio "ZOOM" (with Nils Wogram (tb) and Philipp Schaufelberger (guit)) Lucas Niggli has played numerous concerts and at jazz festivals in all of Europe. The trio's first CD entitled "Spawn of Speed" was praised as a masterpiece by the international jazz press. Now Lucas Niggli has expanded his trio with two equally unique soloists to form a promising new European quintet. A the Jazz Festival Willisau 2002 the group gave its flamboyant debut concert.



ZOOM remains a jazz combo, chamber music ensemble and a rock band even as a quintet. True to this, the music races through the heights and pitfalls of contemporary music, bows to tradition here and jumps into the unknown there.



Niggli's compositions are one of a kind and they are specifically crafted for its "performers", while simultaneously granting them a lot of freedom as "improvisators". Passages written out on the page are overthrown by unexpected improvised interventions. Fixed forms are broken up, dynamically expanded and played at full risk. Niggli juxtaposes intensity and elegy, density and quietness; the essential is emptied out by exultation, and complexity combines with powerful interplay. ZOOM thus becomes one of the most exciting bands in the realm of contemporary jazz.



The musicians are familiar with a remarkably broad range of styles and have a great musical curiosity. This is a necessary precondition for a band which doesn't fall into routine and conventional patterns. Instead, ZOOM constantly seeks to expand the limits of contemporary music, while incorporating echoes of great musics and simultaneously focussing on its own voice.

A Dingo and Fox Production
Recorded at Jazzclub Moods, Zurich
©2004, Lucas Niggli

For more information see
www.lucasniggli.ch
www.intaktrec.ch

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[tonyfreejazz20]

Nice...thanks for posting this.

[UnBBM]

Great composition. Would like to hear more of the guit.....

[guppers51352]

incendiary!