Anyone who tries to combine old with new invariably becomes a part of the controversy between innovators and conservatives, as the former jazz trumpeter Quincy Jones found out for himself when he started to produce Michael Jackson...!!
Just try to imagine it, Deep Purple meets John Coltrane — unimaginable??
No! Because that is .
This band doesn’t just combine the traditions of the Jazz & Rock super groups of yesterday with the playing and sounds of today. Each member of the group enjoys and makes use of the musical freedom that allows potent power-chords as well as the improvised spontaneity of bebop lines. The name conveys both the programme and the concept: EVERYTHING IS ALLOWED, EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!!
offers all listeners, irrespective of age and genre, a brilliant combination of various musical styles, making the following possible...
“Max Roach now plays with Led Zeppelin, Jaco Pastorius with Dream Theater, Bill Evans with Toto, John Scofield with Green Day and Kenny Garrett with Peter Gabriel!!!
And are produced by Teo Macero, George Martin and Babyface...“
Not possible ???
Yes it is, its just a matter of... M U S I C !!!
Once again in their old line-up, the protagonists, all very much at home in precisely these two musical worlds, now present their brand-new material. These heroes of both yesterday and today were separated long enough over the past few years — producing an outpouring of individual musical creativity from the band members...
Matthias Anton (sax)
Nico Schliemann (gtr)
Klaus Webel (keys)
Jan-Philipp Wiesmann (drums)
Patrick S. Müller (bass)
Nothing of the old programme is missing, for the fundamental and key characteristics that have always distinguished – particularly live – remain: emotion, sheer enjoyment of playing, and a strong package of humour, creativity, virtuosity and spontaneity, continually appear throughout the various musical styles presented. What is important is a balanced and highly individual sound. And that’s just what the lads have, tearing down the last barriers of stereotyped thinking and relieving all the previous tensions which sadly still arise between these two musical worlds.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Article in the specialist magazine Gitarre & Bass (Nov. 2006)
- Partner of the European BassDay (Nov. 2006)
- New CD recorded in the All Of Jazz webshop “for independent jazz music” (Nov. 2006)
- 30.03.06, CD-release concert as part of the Stuttgart Jazzcom series in Suite 212
- Production of the CD Playstation (Aug.-Sept. 2005)
- Finalist at the International Newcomer Contest in Straubing (April 2004)
- nvited as the German delegation to the jazz festival in Samara/Russia as part of a twin-city exchange (March 2004)
- 2nd prize at the Young Jazz Award in Tübingen (Oct. 2003)
- Invited to the jazz festival in Miedzychod/Poland (Sept. 2001)
- 2nd prize at the competition for up-and-coming talent in Kirchheim-Teck (Dec. 2000)
PRESS REVIEW
PLAYSTATION’s programme is one of “instrumental music between jazz, funk and rock. The styles are combined and fused together in a diversified way. The performance delivered by all the musicians taking part is really impressive, and the listeners can hear that they have all studied their instruments. Bassist Patrick S. Müller lets fly with virtuoso slap-parts and grooves nice and close with drummer Jan-Philipp Wiesmann, keyboard player Klaus Webel provides, among other things, a prog-rock feeling, saxophonist Matthias Anton is convincing as a melodic soloist, and then there’s guitarist Nico Schliemann: cool-bluesy solos, heavy riffs and licks, snappy jazz fusion sound, and at all times a true tone in his fingers. And by the way: die CD comes with a very appealing design. A well-rounded band project.”
(Gitarre & Bass, Nov. 2006)
“Weinstadt: PLAYSTATION is playing the last concert in the Armer Konrad Jazz Club before the summer break — [...] one can sense their pleasure they have in playing and the thorough training in particular: the music flows with suspense and energy, and doesn’t fail to carry the public along with it. [...] Interesting were the preferences of the individual musicians for various musical styles, which made the music diverse and exciting. [...] But what was fascinating was the musicians’ ability to steal the thunder by alternating, thereby creating suspense and excitement. [...]” (Thomas Dworschak)
“PLAYSTATION enthusiastically received — [...] the mostly self-composed pieces, were pleasing in their richness of ideas and various tempos, at times piano, at times forte [...] The freedom of the compositions, which time and again allowed each musician to shine through virtuoso solos, quite obviously gave not only the performers, but also the auditorium, a great deal of pleasure. [...]“ (Nürtinger Zeitung)
„A successful introduction to jazz — the concert of the four musicians of the Kirchheim group PLAYSTATION, who had come with saxophone, guitar, bass and drums to introduce the visitors to the Wendlinger Jugendtreff Zentrum Neuffenstraße to jazz, was a complete success.[...] Interesting were the preferences of the individual musicians for various musical styles, which made the music diverse and exciting. [...] But what was fascinating was the musicians’ ability to steal the thunder by alternating, thereby creating suspense and excitement. [...]”(Hannes Mayer, Teckbote)
"[...] PLAYSTATION distinguished themselves through their perfected technical skills and impressed with the jazz-rock fusion of their compositions and arrangements [...]" (Teckbote)
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