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| Label Challenge Records |
UPC 0608917349924 |
Catalogue number CR 73499 |
Release date 29 May 2020 |
"... is a sound carpet of subtle harmonic changes, unobtrusive elegance and precise lines. In short: a jazzy listening experience of a special kind. "
Inmusic, 01-8-2020Maik 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.
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.
... is a sound carpet of subtle harmonic changes, unobtrusive elegance and precise lines. In short: a jazzy listening experience of a special kind.
Inmusic, 01-8-2020
Romantic trumpet sighs over voluptuous cadenzas open an album that is characterized by a varied sound and original interplay...
Concerto, 01-8-2020
Davis' music is not a shadow that hangs over the album, but rather an inexhaustible source of inspiration: the start of a promising career.
Jazzenzo, 30-7-2020
... There's one permanently in the fast lane, permanent indicators on the left and well-groomed full throttle. Just under a year after Maik Krahl caused a sensation with his "Jazz thing Next Generation" debut "Decidophobia", the lively trumpet player switches to the next gear. This is called "Fraction" (Challenge/in-acoustics) and starts exactly where the predecessor went into creative idle after the last note...
Jazzthing, 06-7-2020
... Creating contrasts is something the late twenties from Bautzen manage to do excellently anyway in a contemporary programme completely from their own pen...
Medienhaus Bauer 6 Newspaper area NRW, 06-7-2020
...In a way, the Cologne trumpeter could be counted among the young and wild, among the exciting new plants from the haze of the Federal Jazz Orchestra... At the same time, the 29-year-old, whom Till Brönner described as the "current top of the German jazz trumpeters of his generation", has long since tapped into more than just a fraction of his potential, as his current album Fraction impressively demonstrates... It's worth listening.
Jazzthetik, 06-7-2020
... His musical partners, the pianist Constantin Krahmer, the bassist Oliver Lutz and the drummer Leif Berger support the trumpeter in the best possible way and thus ensure an exciting listening experience. The guest soloist on two tracks, the tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake, gives Maik Krahl's compositions his very own and very special mood...
Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg, 28-6-2020
...technical ability combines with musical instinct and playful ideas...
france musique, 25-6-2020
Compositions such as Tangent to Tango and Longtime Beauty are Maik Krahl‘s showpieces in which we hear an enthusiastic trumpet player who carefully chooses his notes, places them beautifully and thereby shines in craftsmanship.
Music Frames, 15-6-2020
... All songs are original compositions, and here too, they are brimming with spontaneous ideas, with freshness and light-heartedness, enriched with strong emotional expression, and this is the result of the excellent cooperation of all musicians...
Musik An Sich, 12-6-2020
Strong musical album by a gifted trumpet player.
Jazzism, 12-6-2020
... A player to keep an ear on and also enjoy right now.
Miswest Record, 05-6-2020
...whereby we are dealing here with compositions that are actually very different from each other, while they remain connected to each other through the solid personality of the musicians.
JAZZit, 02-6-2020
"Longtime Beauty" is the atmospheric conclusion of this very successful album, with very few exceptions.
Rootstime, 01-6-2020
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