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Decidophobia - Jazz Thing Next Generation Vol. 75

Maik Krahl Quartet

Decidophobia - Jazz Thing Next Generation Vol. 75

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Format: CD
Label: Double Moon Records
UPC: 0608917135022
Catnr: DMCHR 71350
Release date: 05 October 2018
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Double Moon Records
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0608917135022
Catalogue number
DMCHR 71350
Release date
05 October 2018

"... For Brönner, Krahl even represents the current top of the German jazz trumpeters of his generation: "His musical requests to speak enrich me and allow me to look forward to the future of an entire genre..."

Jazzthing, 24-10-2018
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It is a confession: Maik Krahl makes fear a subject of discussion. Fear of making decisions or doing something that you might regret later. The fear of making an irreparable error, perhaps ruining your future as a result, being rejected or giving offense. Not a few people are inclined to postpone answers to urgent questions in the hope that everything will somehow solve itself. But only waiting even increases the problem.

Psychology calls this phenomena “decidophobia”. “Especially as a jazz musician, you are forced continually to make decisions. Everything that you do has a direct influence on the band and the character of the piece. You cannot simply trust any mechanisms. It is a question of with which musicians I record, and which pieces are included on the CD,” Krahl explained. For him, it is less a question of fear of possibly negative consequences, the trumpeter assured. “I would instead call it decision uncertainty.” Because it concerns a lot in the current case for Krahl. After all, it is his first album under his own name and which is being released in the highly respected Jazz thing Next Generation series, which has supplied the German-language scene with fresh blood and new heroes for almost 15 years. As if that were not a sufficient burden, Maik Krahl can also set the candle on the birthday cake, because he of all people is the 75th protagonist of JTNG. This apparently provides sufficient reasons for him self-critically to call his debut “Decidophobia”. Then congratulations!

Although the musician born in Bautzen in 1991 really has no reason to worry. The seven songs on the CD, which he recorded with Bruno Müller (guitar), Oliver Lutz (bass), Hendrik Smock (drums) and Constantin Krahmer (piano), are brimming with bold inspiration, amazing solutions, compositional finesse and stupendous virtuosity. At the same time, you can detect an interesting portfolio of influences, which Maik Krahl absorbed voraciously during his studies at Carl Maria von Weber College in Dresden as well as Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. However, nobody should be surprised at this with teachers such as Till Brönner, Malte Burba and Ryan Carniaux. The latter praises his student in the liner notes as an extraordinary young musician, “who is solidly rooted in the past, oriented to the needs of the present in everything he does and at the same time always looks to the horizon to recognize at an early stage everything that the future might bring forth.”

The fact that decisions here cannot be easy is obvious. Maik Krahl selected a subtle, swinging approach with a lean-playing rhythm section, “which also corresponds to my strong relationship to jazz tradition, to the great trumpet players such as Chet Baker, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown and Louis Armstrong.” His own compositions such as “Dance Little Walnut Dance”, “Demian”, “Number 3”, “Via Metauro”, “It Happened To Me”, “Ombrophily” and the title piece produce a refreshingly modern, unpretentious impression, while the band leader dares to take a courageous step into hardly developed no-mans-land with his decision to amplify his mildly shining, robust trumpet sound with an electric phaser in extensive sections.

Maik Krahl might brood about a lot that is wrong or right, what makes sense or what does not. However, precisely because he left nothing to chance, his debut CD sounds above all courageous and daring. It is as if someone would dive from a cliff not knowing whether he is going to land in water. A risk that has paid off in all respects, not only for Ryan Carniaux. He has not regretted the decision, he writes, to dedicate time to this great CD. Everything done right!
Es ist ein Bekenntnis: Maik Krahl thematisiert Angst. Die Angst davor, Entscheidungen zu treffen, etwas zu tun, das man hinterher vielleicht bereuen könnte. Die Angst, einen irreparablen Fehler zu begehen, sich vielleicht dadurch die Zukunft zu verbauen, zurückgewiesen zu werden, oder anzuecken. Nicht wenige Menschen neigen deshalb dazu, die Antwort auf drängende Fragen aufzuschieben, in der Hoffnung, dass sich alles schon irgendwie von selber lösen wird. Aber einfach nur zu warten, das vergrößert oft sogar noch das Problem.Die Psychologie nennt dieses Phänomen Decidophobie. „Vor allem als Jazzmusiker ist man gezwungen, ständig Entscheidungen zu treffen. Alles was man tut, hat einen unmittelbaren Einfluss auf die Band, auf den Charakter des Stückes. Man kann sich nicht auf irgendwelchen Mechanismen ausruhen. Es geht darum: Mit welchen Musiker nehme ich auf, welche Stücke kommen auf die Platte“, erklärt Krahl. Bei ihm gehe es weniger um die Angst vor den möglicherweise negativen Konsequenzen, versichert der Trompeter. „Ich würde es eher Entscheidungsunsicherheit nennen.“ Denn für Krahl geht es im aktuellen Fall durchaus um einiges: Immerhin ist es sein erstes Album unter eigenem Namen, das noch dazu in der viel beachteten Jazz thing Next Generation Reihe erscheint, die seit beinahe 15 Jahren die deutschsprachige Szene regelmäßig mit frischem Blut und neuen Helden versorgt. Als wäre dies nicht schon genug Bürde, darf Maik Krahl auch noch aktuell die Kerze auf dem Geburtstagskuchen spielen, denn ausgerechnet er ist der 75. Protagonist der JTNG. Für ihn offenbar genügend Gründe, sein Debüt selbstkritisch „Decidophobia“ zu nennen. Na dann herzlichen Glückwunsch! Wobei der 1991 in Bautzen geborene Musiker eigentlich keinen Grund zu Sorge haben müsste. Die sieben Songs der CD, die er mit Bruno Müller (Gitarre), Oliver Lutz (Bass), Hendrik Smock (Schlagzeug) und Constantin Krahmer (Piano) einspielte, strotzen nur so vor mutigen Einfällen, verblüffenden Lösungen, kompositorischer Finesse und stupender Virtuosität. Dabei lässt sich ein interessantes Portfolio an Einflüssen heraushören, das Maik Krahl während seiner Studien an der Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule in Dresden wie auch an der Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen gierig absorbierte. Worüber sich niemand bei Lehrern wie Till Brönner, Malte Burba und Ryan Carniaux wundern sollte. Letzter preist seinen Schüler in den Linernotes als einen außergewöhnlichen jungen Musiker, „der fest in der Vergangenheit verwurzelt ist, alles was er tut, an den Bedürfnissen der Gegenwart ausrichtet und dabei immer zum Horizont blickt, um frühzeitig zu erkennen, was die Zukunft wohl noch alles bringen möge.“
Dass Entscheidungen hier nicht gerade leicht sein können, liegt auf der Hand. Maik Krahl wählte eine dezent swingende Gangart mit einer schlank agierenden Rhythmussektion, „was auch meinem starken Bezug zur Jazztradition, zu großen Trompetern wie Chet Baker, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown und Louis Armstrong entspricht“. Eigene Kompositionen wie „Dance Little Walnut Dance“, „Demian“, „Number 3“, „Via Metauro“, „It Happened To Me“, „Ombrophily“ oder das Titelstück wirken auf eine erfrischend uneitle Art modern, während der Bandleader mit seiner Entscheidung, seinen mild glimmenden, robusten Trompetenton in weiten Teilen mit einem elektrischen Phaser zu verstärken, einen mutigen Schritt in ein kaum erschlossenes Niemandsland wagt.Maik Krahl mag viel über falsch oder richtig, Sinn oder Unsinn grübeln. Gerade weil er nichts dem Zufall überließ, klingt sein Erstling vor allem mutig. So, als würde hier einer kopfüber von der Klippe springen, nicht wissend, ob er unten im Wasser landet oder nicht. Ein Risiko, das sich allemal gelohnt hat, nicht nur für Ryan Carniaux. Er habe die Entscheidung nicht bereut, schreibt er, dieser großartigen CD seine Zeit zu schenken. Alles richtig gemacht!

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Maik Krahl (trumpet)

Maik Krahl represents his generation’s current top of the German jazz trumpeter. His musical statements enrich me and let me look forward into a future of a whole genre, which will always exist. Big compliment! - Till Brönner Maik Krahl completed his jazz studies at Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule für Musik Dresden and also studied the Master of Music Jazz Improvising Artist at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His most influencing teachers were Till Brönner, Malte Burba and the American jazz trumpet player Ryan Carniaux. His first album Decidophobia was released in 2018 with Double Moon / Challenge Records International. His second album Fraction featuring Seamus Blake was released two years later in May 2020 with Challenge Records International. With his own quartet, Krahl plays...
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Maik Krahl represents his generation’s current top of the German jazz trumpeter. His musical statements enrich me and let me look forward into a future of a whole genre, which will always exist. Big compliment! - Till Brönner

Maik Krahl completed his jazz studies at Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule für Musik Dresden and also studied the Master of Music Jazz Improvising Artist at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His most influencing teachers were Till Brönner, Malte Burba and the American jazz trumpet player Ryan Carniaux.

His first album Decidophobia was released in 2018 with Double Moon / Challenge Records International. His second album Fraction featuring Seamus Blake was released two years later in May 2020 with Challenge Records International. With his own quartet, Krahl plays numerous concerts in all important jazz clubs all over Germany as well as at festivals such as International Jazz Week Burghausen, JazzBaltica, Hildener Jazztage, Trave-Jazz Festival, Jazzfest Bingen or Birdland Radio Jazz Festival. His third album In-Between Flow was released in September 2022 and features world famous guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Besides working as a band leader Krahl is a steady part of the Cologne based Subway Jazz Orchestra. With this big band he recorded five albums: Primal Scream (2015), State of Mind (2016), Richbeck Suite (2018), Still Screaming (2020) and You are the Universe (2023). Krahl joined the WDR Big Band as a guest musician in productions and concerts. Furthermore, he won the HI Five Music Award in 2023 and is a three-time scholarship winner of the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung – most recently with his quartet.

Concerts brought him to Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Canada, Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia, Senegal, and the US. Traveling the world allowed him to work with musicians like John Clayton, Kurt Elling, Maria Schneider, Benny Green, Jeff Hamilton, Ingrid Jensen, John Ruocco, and Jiggs Whigham.

Furthermore, Maik Krahl teaches jazz trumpeters as well as ensembles and leads the department of brass instruments at Offene Jazz Haus Schule in Cologne.


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Maik Krahl (trumpet)

Maik Krahl represents his generation’s current top of the German jazz trumpeter. His musical statements enrich me and let me look forward into a future of a whole genre, which will always exist. Big compliment! - Till Brönner Maik Krahl completed his jazz studies at Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule für Musik Dresden and also studied the Master of Music Jazz Improvising Artist at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His most influencing teachers were Till Brönner, Malte Burba and the American jazz trumpet player Ryan Carniaux. His first album Decidophobia was released in 2018 with Double Moon / Challenge Records International. His second album Fraction featuring Seamus Blake was released two years later in May 2020 with Challenge Records International. With his own quartet, Krahl plays...
more

Maik Krahl represents his generation’s current top of the German jazz trumpeter. His musical statements enrich me and let me look forward into a future of a whole genre, which will always exist. Big compliment! - Till Brönner

Maik Krahl completed his jazz studies at Carl Maria von Weber Hochschule für Musik Dresden and also studied the Master of Music Jazz Improvising Artist at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His most influencing teachers were Till Brönner, Malte Burba and the American jazz trumpet player Ryan Carniaux.

His first album Decidophobia was released in 2018 with Double Moon / Challenge Records International. His second album Fraction featuring Seamus Blake was released two years later in May 2020 with Challenge Records International. With his own quartet, Krahl plays numerous concerts in all important jazz clubs all over Germany as well as at festivals such as International Jazz Week Burghausen, JazzBaltica, Hildener Jazztage, Trave-Jazz Festival, Jazzfest Bingen or Birdland Radio Jazz Festival. His third album In-Between Flow was released in September 2022 and features world famous guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Besides working as a band leader Krahl is a steady part of the Cologne based Subway Jazz Orchestra. With this big band he recorded five albums: Primal Scream (2015), State of Mind (2016), Richbeck Suite (2018), Still Screaming (2020) and You are the Universe (2023). Krahl joined the WDR Big Band as a guest musician in productions and concerts. Furthermore, he won the HI Five Music Award in 2023 and is a three-time scholarship winner of the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung – most recently with his quartet.

Concerts brought him to Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Canada, Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia, Senegal, and the US. Traveling the world allowed him to work with musicians like John Clayton, Kurt Elling, Maria Schneider, Benny Green, Jeff Hamilton, Ingrid Jensen, John Ruocco, and Jiggs Whigham.

Furthermore, Maik Krahl teaches jazz trumpeters as well as ensembles and leads the department of brass instruments at Offene Jazz Haus Schule in Cologne.


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... For Brönner, Krahl even represents the current top of the German jazz trumpeters of his generation: "His musical requests to speak enrich me and allow me to look forward to the future of an entire genre...
Jazzthing, 24-10-2018

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