NOTHUNG is a scorching excusion into the deep dynamic realms of creative free inprovisation
The trio work as one to create an awe-inspiring energy and exitement, in solos and interplay.
Fans will delight in the crispy digital recording and mastering that captures every nuance of this very special night at the Knitting Factory.

PETER BROTZMANN: Saxophone, Clarinet, Tarogato

WILLIAM PARKER: Double bass

MICHAEL WERTMULLER : Percussion

When people search for the most obvious source for his sound, comparisons are inevitably made with John Coltrane (1926-67), Albert Ayler (1936-1970), Pharoah Sanders (1940) and on to people like Charles Gayle (1939) and David S.Ware (1949). The dates are significant here. Peter Brotzmann (1941) is clearly in very black American company but apart from Coltrane, little distinguishes one date of birth from the other. But Brotzmann was a pioneer and arrived at his methods independently of any obvious influence, apart from Coltrane and the earlier exponents of the horn, who of course influenced every generation thereafter. Everybody begins by trying to sound like someone else. It is where it goes from there that makes the difference. Brstzmann was a stylist whose intensity and focus were already apparent from the early sixties. Germany, and in particular Berlin, was a very special place at that time. Political inspiration, not race issues, inspired Brotzmann's approach. Like Albert Ayler, he shared an interest in the brass structures of New Orleans jazz laced with generous amounts of rhythm 'n blues. These days his intensity may be extending Ayler's legacy but Brotzmann's conception is personal and fully realised within its own parameters. His was a parallel development, unique in its formation. It did not reflect an Afro-American political consciousness, as much free jazz of the day did, nor the Afro-mysticism typical of Coltrane and Sanders. Sound was and still is the common currency.

Peter Brotzmann is a great modernist who attacks every reed instrument he can lay his hands on with an unflagging and inexhaustible commitment. Listening to him is like being caught in a tropical storm with all the doors and windows in every room in the house left open to the devious temper of the elements. -STEVE KULAK

-"..TOP 10 JAZZ ALBUM OF 2002"!!! - WIRE MAGAZINE