Dominik Raab, Tony Lakatos & Billy Test - Mocambo Affair (2025) Hi-Res

Second album by the Cologne drummer and composer in his quartet line-up with Tony Lakatos (tenor saxophone), Billy Test (piano) and Doug Weiss (bass) as a CD in a beautifully designed three-part digipack on JazzJazz.

After »Choose Loose« (2022), »Mocambo Affair« is the second album that Dominik Raab has recorded together with Tony Lakatos, Billy Test and Doug Weiss. Like the quartet's debut, it consists exclusively of Raab's own compositions, with the nine new pieces sounding even more gripping and passionate. With dreamlike certainty, Lakatos, Test, Weiss and Raab complement each other to form a virtuoso team that lets Raab's visions shine. »Mocambo Affair« is a work of one piece and offers pure listening pleasure. Rich in moods, colors and rhythms, it was recorded and mixed by Clemens Orth in the Salon de Jazz Studio in Cologne's Südstadt district, whose spatial intimacy also contributes to maximum listening pleasure. Wonderful jazz, lovingly fed by the tradition of swing and bebop, yet at the same time modern, fresh and thoroughly contemporary.