Duck On Ice, Flying Cow Katharina Maschmeyer Quartet

• 1 Wish 07:25
• 2 Potter's Magic Tricks 07:10
• 3 Open Road 07:04
• 4 No 9 05:14
• 5 Blowball 04:26
• 6 Shaping Sounds 07:22
• 7 Duck On Ice, Flying Cow 05:54
• 8 Poetry of the Dark Season 08:15
• 9 Soul Dance 03:52
• 10 Spring Thing 06:26
• Total Runtime 01:03:08

Info for Duck On Ice, Flying Cow

„Duck On Ice, Flying Cow“ is already the third studio album of the Katharina Maschmeyer Quartet, which presents, unlike the previous ones, more funk and rock influences. The band did increase its musical and sound universe by playing many concerts with the Echo Jazz price and WDR Jazz price winning Frederik Köster. The band forms clearly one of the best harmonies, which stands out by the elaborated modern jazz arrangements and by the free spaces that let the musicians in interaction.

Intuitive, flowing, and non-academic, the compositions are nearly exclusively written by Katharina Maschmeyer and Nils Pollheide. Quick sequences in unison, irregular and complex rhythms, elaborated bass lines and free parts succeed each other.

Within this agile quartet sound with a high recognition value the album offers a great variety including also ballads and some quiet passages.

The band took time for the production and used many sound effects. It is recommended to listen to the album with headphones in order to discover all the subtleties of each composition. It remains nevertheless also a real pleasure with loudspeakers.

'...Katharina Maschmeyer is an incredibly talented saxophonist with a tone some players spend a career searching for and never find. A Stan Getz sense of minimalism can be found in her approach along with the soulful bent of a Houston Person, nice combination!...' (Brent Black, www.criticaljazz.com)

'Little known so far beyond Germany this album has the potential to get their name about considerably (...).' (Stephen Graham, Marlbank)

Katharina Maschmeyer, tenor & soprano saxophones
Nils Pollheide, guitar
Philipp Rüttgers, Fender Rhodes, synth bass
Jens Otto, drums
Guest soloist:
Frederik Köster, trumpet, flugelhorn

Katharina Maschmeyer
got her Master Degree in the Netherlands. She graduated her Bachelor Study in Jazz- Saxophone at the “Conservatory of Arnhem” (Netherlands). She studied with Jörg Kaufmann and Frans Vermeerssen and attended workshops by Dave Liebman, Vincent Herring, Steve Swallow, Carla Bley and Kurt Rosenwinkel. Further she absolved vocal lessons by Lis Harting, Hartog Eysman and Marielle Vester.

In the course of her following Master Study in Zwolle (NL) she additively focused on composition. She had lessons (saxophone/bass clarinet/composition) from Rolf Delfos, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen, Allard Buwalda, Simon Rigter and Joan Reinders, furthermore additional vocal lessons from Adrienne West and workshops with Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas.

She concentrates on composing and realizing her own music. Two records of her own quartet are already released. "On these albums she not only play the tenor and soprano saxophone in a very appealing and refreshing way, but also presents original music, which has much autonomy and is very multifaceted and energetic and relates from jazz, funk to rock music." - Sonic "The saxophone player Katharina Maschmeyer is one of the most hopeful talents of the german jazz scene. Her latest album confirms this." - Wendland Jazz e.V.

“The interaction with Nils Pollheide, g, Jens Otto, dr, and Philipp Rüttgers, Rhodes, is marked by mutual inspiration, empathy, groove and movement, harmony and intensive dialogues. The well elaborated, smart and angular profiled compositions of the leader show soul and hard bop aspects, rhythmic capers and melodic richness.” – Jazz Podium.

Booklet for Duck On Ice, Flying Cow