Rio Bravo - that's the sixth studio album of the Nighthawks. And it deliberately evokes associations with great Western classics or the border river between the USA and Mexico. A world like a mirage: sand as far as the eye can see, shimmering hot air and dazzling asphalt roads. A world of great images. The Nighthawks know how to handle pictorial moods. All their successful albums offer consistently elaborated mood pictures. It is always the trumpet of Reiner Winterschladen that guides the listeners through the pictorial worlds. Since the end of the 90s a band line-up consisting of trumpet, rhodes, bass, guitar and drums offers the immovable framework for their musical adventures. And the wonderful musicians play these instruments with the power of rock and the energy of jazz, probably the most intense musical decade of the 70s. They draw musical boundaries and flow through them, just as the Rio Grande changes into the Rio Bravo. Those who can paint as wonderfully as the Nighthawks in tones have coordinated their content. Not too many notes, rather setting the right ones cleanly, is a musical principle of the band. For this attitude the Nighthawks have been awarded three times with the German Jazz Award
