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Dominik Mahnig

A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz: Part 2

by Ian Patterson
March 19, 2025

The second installment of A Brief Guide To Ukrainian Jazz--a series developed with the cooperation of the Ukrainian Institute--introduces five more highly talented jazz artists/groups from Ukraine. In addition, we profile the jazz festivals and jazz clubs that are keeping the Ukrainian jazz flame burning brightly in these most difficult of times. Pokaz Trio ...

Simon Nabatov 3 + 2: Verbs

by John Sharpe
February 20, 2024

What constitutes a composition? German-based Russian-born pianist Simon Nabatov makes a convincing case that a simple verbal instruction can suffice on Verbs. It is not a claim he makes himself, but the six supposed improvisations each mines such a distinctive seam that, although spontaneously conceived without melody or other formal arrangement, the initial proposition proves enough. ...

Verbs

By Simon Nabatov

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Pray; Race; Reveal; Breathe; Converge; Evolve; Float.

Frank Gratkowski, Simon Nabatov: Tender Mercies

by John Sharpe
September 13, 2023

This collection of seven duets from pianist Simon Nabatov and reedman Frank Gratkowski stands as one of those times when the late Misha Mengelberg's term “instant composition" for a series of seat-of-the-pants encounters makes absolute sense. Perhaps that should not be a surprise, considering the protagonists histories and shared base in the German city of Cologne. ...

Botter - Ango

By Dierk Peters

Label: Float Music
Released: 2015

Gratkowski, Nabatov, Mahnig: Dance Hall Stories

by Angelo Leonardi
January 5, 2021

Il titolo e la foto di copertina sono allusivi e non vanno presi alla lettera. Il pianista Simon Nabatov e il sassofonista Frank Gratkowski non hanno deciso di abbandonare la libera improvvisazione per un omaggio al repertorio da ballo ma includono nella collaborazione il giovane batterista Dominik Mahnig, che si aggiunge in metà dei brani del ...

Dance Hall Stories

By Frank Gratkowski

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Hopeful Glances; Wrong More Reflected; It’s All in the Hips; Slinky; Gradual Enticement; Sitting One Out; Cautious Invitation; Pocket Found.

Philipp Zoubek: Outside

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 2, 2019

Inciso a Colonia nel dicembre 2017, questo album vede il quarantenne pianista austriaco Philip Zoubek, collaboratore fra gli altri di Paul Lytton, Frank Gratkowski, Ernst Glerum ed Herb Robertson, misurarsi con la prediletta formula del trio, nello specifico affiancato dal bassista tedesco David Helm e dal batterista elvetico Dominik Mahnig. Come principali punti di ...

Cologne Open 2018

by Henning Bolte
March 21, 2018

Cologne Open Stadtgarten Cologne, Gemany March 1-2, 2018 Cologne Open, the first edition of a new showcase festival offering a selection of the city's jazz musicians, spanned two nights in the renowned Stadtgarten venue. It was launched on the occasion of a meeting of the newly established Artistic ...