This fresh European jazz with a larger band than usual fuses its sources without trying to lecture. Carl Wittig's Aurora Octet touches with the unexpected, it is there as a matter of course as a convincing synthesis of the old and new world. If jazz wants to retain its vitality, it must constantly renew itself. It cannot be museum music that is simply exhibited. Jazz is a music of individualities that add up to ever new paths into the open. Each generation takes these paths differently. ...