Matthias Bergmann - Pretend It's a City (2021)

The 3rd Album by Cologne based Flugelhorn and Trumpetplayer Matthias Bergmann will be released on October 22nd. The Sound has slightly changed, as you can notice on the Opener Love Song, a Tribute to the legendary british Band The Cure, which puts more focus on the wonderful Guitar Playing of Hanno Busch, joined by Bassplayer Cord Heineking and Drummer Jens Düppe, who are as always perfectly supporting the fluently warm Flugelhorn Sound of the Bandleader. You can tell the beautiful Colors of the City by the Bassclarinet of Claudius Valk who appears on two Tracks and the Fender Rhodes Guest Appearance by Hendrik Soll on the warm Tribute to South African Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim. The East European Song Saita by Hartmut Preyer closes this well-tempered tasteful and overall melodic Album, lending it’s Title from Martin Scorceses Doku Series about jewish Author Fran Lebowitz.

Matthias Bergmann (*1972 Emden) came to Cologne in 1997. Besides his own Band he is currently working with Duo Partners Clemens Orth (Piano) and Oliver Schroer (Churchorgan), as a Quintet Co-Leader with Saxophonist Raimund Moritz and Guitar Player Sandra Hempel and his North German Latin Jazz Band Tin Tin Deo. As a Sideman he can be heard on more than 70 CDs by Axel Fischbacher, Andre Nendza and many other small and large Ensembles like the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and the Fuchsthone Orchestra. He is teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, the Hochschule für Musik Mainz and the Glen Buschmann Jazz Academy Dortmund.