Full Review: MUSIKREVIEWS.DE
“Das vierte Album des NOCZ Quartet ist zugleich sein spannendstes und markiert eine Erfüllung hoher künstlerischer Ambitionen auf allen Ebenen. Auf “Sailor on Dry Land” verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen festen Strukturen und Stegreif-Inventionen, instrumentalem Free Jazz und Kammerchormusik, Intimität und scheinbar grenzenloser Offenheit.”
IN ENGLISH: “The fourth album of the NOCZ Quartet is also its most exciting and marks a fulfillment of high artistic ambitions on all levels. “Sailor on Dry Land” blurs the boundaries between solid structures and impromptu inventions, instrumental free jazz and chamber choir music, intimacy and seemingly boundless openness.”
NOCZ QUARTET
25. APRIL - BRATISLAVA (SK)
26. APRIL - ZILINA (SK)
28. APRIL - BRNO JAZZFEST WITH CHOIR - CD RELEASE (CZ)
POCKET CORNER
4. MAY - VIC INTERNATIONAL JAZZFESTIVAL, SPAIN
BERLIN TRIO
8. MAY - SOWIESO, BERLIN
9. MAY - STAVANGER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL, MAIJAZZ (NO)
25.04 Bratislava
26.04 Zilina
28.04 Brno Jazzfest (Release of new CD with Choir)
https://www.facebook.com/events/695234647538287/
The famous Czech/Norwegian Quartet in Berlin.
NOCZ Quartet has since 2009 played hundreds of concerts in Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Norway, London and Budapest. Also radio and Television concerts.
www.nocz.eu
November Tour in Spain:
- 23. October: Stavanger (Blyge Harry) Warming up 
-11th November: Cádiz (El Musicario)
-13th November: Málaga (Málaga Jazz Association)
-14th November: Granada (Ol-Ya-Koo Association)
-15th November: Sevilla (Sevilla Jazz Association)
-16th November: Valencia (Jimmy Glass Jazz Club)
-17th November: Vic-Barcelona (Vic Bang Jazz Cava Club)
Many thanks to Stavanger Kommune, Norsk Jazzforum, Music Norway, Vestnorsk Jazzsenter and Norsk Jazzforum for supporting us.
JAZZ GOES TO TOWN……
SPINIFEX MAXIMUS….13. October….great 11-piece band with members:
John Dikeman (US) – tenorsaxofon
Tobias Klein (DE) – altsaxofon
Jasper Stadhouders (NL) – el. kytara
Gonçalo Almeida (PT) – baskytara
Philipp Moser (DE) – bicí
Michal Wroblewski (CZ) – barytonsaxofon
Marcel Bárta (CZ) – tenorsaxofon
Jiří Genrt (CZ) – tuba
Jan Přibil (CZ) – trubka
Didrik Ingvaldsen (NO) – trubka
Richard Šanda (CZ) – trombón
In Amsterdam, the international Spinifex band and the JGTT festival have prepared a project built on the collaboration of the Quinn Spinifex with the most creative Czech jazz musicians of the younger and middle generation. The Spinifex Maximus project will feature an 11-member bigband that was created exclusively for this year’s JGTT. The incredibly intense music produced by Spinifex is an original mix of modern jazz, musical avant-garde, trash metal and HC. Their varied musical controversy, disturbing stylistic and genre boundaries, is characterized by mathematically precise rhythmic structures and detailed composite parties, extreme changes in tempo and rhythm, explosive improvised passages, unexpected melodic twists, virtuoso solos, and overwhelmingly groovy. The Quintet, supported by the massive breathing section of the domestic players, acts as one body that draws the listener from his first beat into his bowels.
