DIE ENTTÄUSCHUNG with Rudi Mahall, Axel Dörner, Jan Roder, Uli Jennessen

This quartet from Berlin continues to write pithy postbop swingers and uncork concise, biting solos whose vocabulary draws from jazz’s entire history. The lean, craggy grooves of bassist Jan Roder and drummer Uli Jennessen give the music a buoyant drive without treading on the front-line action of bass clarinetist Rudi Mahall and trumpeter Axel Dörner. In both their individual solos and their knotty but airy multilinear improvisation, the horn men are exquisite in their focus and bracing in their tone.
Peter Margasak, www.chicagoreader.com Blog, USA, January 22, 2010