RONDO Magazine

Max Tiller and His Five Senses - The Spit Spot

RONDO - The Classics and Jazz Magazine
published on 12 December 2009

The 1979 in Gera, who was born and lives in Munich, Max Tiller
one of the most brilliant German-trained jazz musicians
the younger generation. When the alto saxophonist now
Blurb on his CD Cannonball Adderley, Charlie and
Maceo Parker and Kenny Garrett thanks for the inspiration,
is the natural right and just. Funnily enough moves
Tiller with "Spot the Spit" but - consciously or subconsciously -
also on a decidedly German tradition.

Because the nuclei, entertaining, virtuosic and radio-sprayed
Jazz-rock, which the alto saxophonist and his six colleagues
(Ulrich Wangenheim on tenor sax, bass clarinet and flute, Jan
Eschke on keyboards, Jan Zehrfeld on guitar, Alex Klier
on bass and Bastian Jütte on drums) maintain reminded, in its
sometimes special form of the products of Peter Herbolzheimer
or Klaus Doldinger (Tiller has been combined with two-
worked).

Which means the good: Sheer Groove are not the tunes
forgotten. Reminiscent of the aesthetics of the Eighties, the studio
Sound, however, provides places for a certain smoothness.

Here are Max Tiller and his family certainly no fabric softener. In the
Contrary, the bandleader plays as intensely as if there's no tomorrow
there. And guitarist Jan Zehrfeld that one as head of the Berserker
Band "Panzerballett" knows shows that rock and jazz-funk
connect can be quite tasty. Therefore: Behind the
international competition, Max Tiller and his need
Colleagues to hide, anyway.

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