Nils Wogram/ Simon Nabatov Duo live at NDR 2011

Nils Wogram, trombone
Simon Nabatov, piano

recorded live at Rolf-Liebermann-Studio, NDR, Hamburg, March 18, 2011

1. Moods and Modes (Wogram)
2. Mark This (Nabatov)
3. Assuming (Wogram)
4. Moving In (Wogram)
5. Danca Nova (Nabatov)
6. Lady sings the Blues (Nichols/ Holiday)

Simon Nabatov played in Nils Wogram Quartet, Nils Wogram played in Simon Nabatov Quartet. The only logical step for both seemed to form a duo, which they did in 1997. After the premiere at LOFT, Cologne, a highly successful appearance at the Moers New Music Festival '97 followed.
Since then the duo played numerous concerts and recorded a CD "As We Don't Know It" (live at WDR, Cologne), which has been released by the Berlin label Konnex Records.
March 2000 the duo has made the second recording "Starting A Story" (again at WDR), released in 2002 on ACT Music label.
In December 2002, during another tour throughout Europe, the third recording "The Move" was made in LOFT, Cologne.
It was released on Between The Lines Records in 2005. Another recording (live) made in LOFT and entitled "Jazz Limbo" was released in 2007 on Leo Records
The 5th recording "Moods and Modes" was made in the Studio of the Radio Zurich SDR II, July 2009. It has been released on the new label NWOG Records.

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.

Tempelektrisch live at Jazzclub Unterfahrt 2009

Photo ©by Ralph Horbascheck

Axel Schlosser (Trumpet/Flügelhorn)
Christian Weidner (Alto Saxophone)
Nils Wogram (Trombone)
Frank Möbus (Guitar)
Wolfgang Zwiauer (Bass)
Rainer Tempel (Fender Rhodes, Synthesizer)
Jim Black (Drums)

recorded live at Jazzclub Unterfahrt, Munich/ Germany, December 2009

1. "Lucy goes waltzing" (Rainer Tempel)
2. "The Striker" (Rainer Tempel)
3. "Selecâo" (Rainer Tempel)
4. "Trains" (Rainer Tempel)
5. "Pink" (Rainer Tempel)
6. "Elder Statesmen" (Rainer Tempel)

"I bought my first electric keyboard in 1986 and I still have it. Although it was one of the cheapest on the market I had to spend all the money I had on it. I just needed something that was loud enough to be heard in the rock band I was in at the time.
I took classical piano lessons as a kid and teenager and later studied jazz piano, but I also was influenced by the jazz rock music that was around me.
I prefer analogue instruments which are as old as myself. Their sounds, in the ears of today, hardly resemble any natural instrument but have become instruments in themselves. The Rhodes and The Wurlitzer Piano, as well as the Hohner Clavinet, cannot be played the same way a piano is played. In some situations, the Rhodes blends much better with wind instruments than the piano does.
So this album is called tempelektrisch, even though there are more natural instruments in the band than electric ones." (Rainer Tempel about tempelektrisch)

Dave Douglas: Blue Nile - the Music of Randy Weston live at JazzBaltica 2007

Dave Douglas - Trumpet

Donny McCaslin - Tenor Saxophone
Nils Wogram - Trombone
Martin Taxt - Tuba
Geoffrey Keezer - Piano
Nasheet Waits - Drums
Jan Bang - Samples

recorded live at JazzBaltica 2007, Große Konzertscheune Salzau, Germany

Tracklist:
1. The Shrine
2. Mystery Of Love
3. Zulu
4. The Call
5. African Cookbook
6. Prayer Blues
7. Afro Black

Dave Douglas has an amazing output on records. The discography can be found here.