Nils Wogram
Bright Lights
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2020 / nwog 033
Line-Up:
Nils Wogram
A trombone, nothing else! What has long been normal on piano or guitar, for example, still seems unusual, not to say daring, on the trombone. Yet this unusual line-up has a long tradition in German jazz. Both Albert Mangelsdorff and Conny Bauer have demonstrated this and presented their instrument as a solo instrument on several style-defining albums and in countless solo concerts. With his solo debut Bright Lights, Nils Wogram not only hooks up with this great tradition, but at the same time opens up completely new perspectives.
Nils Wogram succeeds in a touching way to manifest basic trust in his own musical statements, to confess his artistic origins without mutating into plagiarism, and thus to tell new stories that nevertheless do not seem out of place in familiar settings. Ultimately, with Bright Lights he is clearing the way for the creative power of socially sensitive individualism in times of increasing uniformity and conformity.
