Dominik Raab Quartet - Mocambo Affair

Second album by the Cologne drummer and composer in his quartet line-up with Tony Lakatos (tenor saxophone), Billy Test (piano) and Doug Weiss (bass) as a CD in a beautifully designed three-part digipack on JazzJazz. After Choose Loose (2022), Mocambo Affair is the second album that Dominik Raab recorded together with Tony Lakatos, Billy Test and Doug Weiss. Like the quartet's debut album, it consists exclusively of Raab's own compositions, with the nine new pieces sounding even more gripping and passionate. With somnambulistic security, Lakatos, Test, Weiss and Raab complement each other to form a virtuoso team that allows Raab's visions to shine. Mocambo Affair is a work of one piece and offers pure listening pleasure. Rich in moods, colours and rhythms, it was recorded and mixed by Clemens Orth in the Salon de Jazz Studio in Cologne's Sudstadt, whose spatial intimacy also contributes to maximum listening pleasure. Wonderful jazz, lovingly drawn from the tradition of swing and bebop, but at the same time modern, fresh and thoroughly contemporary.