Nils Wogram & Simon Nabatov live at Jazzfest Bonn 2010

photo © by friedrich von hülsen

Nils Wogram, trombone
Simon Nabatov, piano

recorded live at Kulturzentrum Brotfabrik, Jazzfest Bonn, June 4, 2010

1. Moods and Modes (Wogram)
2. Moving In (Wogram)

3. Split The Difference (Wogram)
4. Time Machine (Wogram)

5. Danca Nova (Nabatov)

6. Assuming (Nabatov)
7. Full Stop (Nabatov)

Russian pianist Simon Nabatov and German trombonist Nils Wogram definitely have no problem communicating with each other and clearly have tremendous fun playing together.  Their duo has remained fresh and continued to thrive since it made its debut in 1997 at The Loft in Cologne and won over the critics and audience at the 1997 Moers Music Festival with a performance hailed as a highlight of the event.  They first played together in 1995 in a quartet the trombonist led and one can attribute the success of their ongoing collaboration – which has included an octet of Wogram’s and a quartet of Nabatov’s—to the fact that aesthetically they are unmistakably kindred spirits.  Above all both are intrepid musical adventurers who fearlessly set their sights on distant, un-chartered horizons in their improvising and composing, secure in their knowledge that they can always bring their music back home to the safe stylistic harbors of the mainstream and modern jazz and classical traditions from which they each set sail.

Their latest album called "JazzLimbo" was released in 2007 on leo records.