Bernd Suchland - Hip Tip (2014)

Tracklist

01. Save Your Love for Me
02. What the World Need Now Is Love
03. Hip Tip
04. Mirage
05. Twenty-Four Hour Leave
06. Bean and the Boys
07. La Rosita
08. Oh, Gee
09. Affraid of Love
10. Comes Love

The Berlin jazz quintet, led by the two tenor saxophonists Bernd Suchland and Patrick Braun, plays fresh and virtuosic, raw and direct hardbop jazz. Together with Dan-Robin Matthies (piano), Lars Gühlcke (double bass) and Ralf Ruh (drums), the tenors get down to business without any top-heavy flourishes. They take it seriously, the music that was part of liberating everyday culture in the 50s and 60s, and demonstrate the lasting energy of a handmade, honest jazz feeling.

For fifteen years, they have been winning over audiences and the press with a skillfully selected program from the timeless history of jazz.