Nils Wogram & NDR Bigband

Work Smoothly

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2018 / nwog 020

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Nils Wogram

NDR Bigband

This gifted leader of small ensembles, Nils Wogram, has actually recorded his new album "Work Smoothly" with a large jazz orchestra. And not with just any bigband, but with one of the flagships of the scene: the NDR Bigband. This is not, however, his first encounter with the renowned orchestra – in 2007 he released Portrait of a Band in this combination. However, on the new CD, he doesn’t write a sequel to this episode, but rather takes on a whole new approach that does justice to his current horizon. If one wanted to agree on the often-used phrase, “it should not become an ordinary bigband album,” one would only do it partial justice because basically it is exactly this: a genuine bigband album.

Photo: Ulla C. Binder