Maik Krahl Quartett – Decidophobia at JazzTube Festival Bonn at Pantheon Theater

“Decidophobia” refers to the fear of making decisions. That sounds uncomfortable at first, and the fact that a jazz record is called that raises questions, admittedly, as you have to make some decisions when producing an album.

But the young trumpeter Maik Krahl, who lives in Cologne, is not afraid of decisions at all. Born in Bautzen in 1991, he has been working resolutely on his career as a jazz trumpeter since the age of 8. Only a small excerpt of his remarkable stations are a place in the Bundesjugendjazzorchester, a jazz degree in Dresden with Till Brönner, a master’s degree with Ryan Carniaux at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen as well as numerous tours in different formations. And the Maik Krahl Quartet, founded in 2017....

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“Decidophobia” refers to the fear of making decisions. That sounds uncomfortable at first, and the fact that a jazz record is called that raises questions, admittedly, as you have to make some decisions when producing an album.

But the young trumpeter Maik Krahl, who lives in Cologne, is not afraid of decisions at all. Born in Bautzen in 1991, he has been working resolutely on his career as a jazz trumpeter since the age of 8. Only a small excerpt of his remarkable stations are a place in the Bundesjugendjazzorchester, a jazz degree in Dresden with Till Brönner, a master’s degree with Ryan Carniaux at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen as well as numerous tours in different formations. And the Maik Krahl Quartet, founded in 2017.

With “Decidophobia” friends of traditional jazz get their money’s worth as much as those who like it a little more experimentally. Maik Krahl’s soft trumpet sound, reminiscent of Chet Baker, always remains the common thread. He not only manages the balancing act into modernity in a playful way, but also through the tasteful use of effects.
He provides his trumpet with a delay, alienates its signal by phaser or distortion.

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