Klaus Ignatzek International Quintett - African Flower

Anyone who experiences this quintet live will know how energy-charged, gripping and electrifying this ensemble can be in its stage performance - many will already have wished to possess this concentration of explosive power on sound carrier. With African Flower, this wish has now been fulfilled: Ignatzek & Co. in absolute top form, digitally recorded at a jazz club in Rome. And since African Flower is an uncompromising live album, the five take the time for what they so excellently master, in ways that very few do: improvisation. Fiery trumpet solos by the two South Americans, Roditi and Bergalli, contrast with the wonderfully extended free flights on the piano, together with one of the best-coordinated rhythm groups as a swinging perpetuum mobile - in short, African Flower is modern jazz at its very best!