K?STER, FREDERIK/VERWANDLUNG, DIE - Golden Age (Sealed) (CD)

"Sensitive to energetic interactions, which live from the special sound understanding of all participants and leave stylistic boundaries behind. FAZ - Once again, The Metamorphosis lives up to its name. On their new album, the top-class quartet of award-winning musical personalities (a total of six jazz echoes, the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis, the WDR Jazz Prize) once again accomplishes a stylistic and tonal change of direction. Especially in direct comparison to his Homeward Bound Suite released in 2018. The spectacular orchestral work was widely praised at the time, for example as "a successful interweaving of jazz and classical elements with emotional depth" (Jazz Podium). The Swiss magazine Jazz'n'More found: "The quartet stringently implements the orchestra's timbres and Frederik K?ster's solos conclusively lay over rhythmic patterns. And the Badische Zeitung positioned the band leader at "the top of German jazz. K?ster's trumpet, elegantly and obstinately lined with occasional loop echoes, stands out clearly from icons such as Miles Davis and Chet Baker.