“The small sensation in the otherwise strictly americophile Association is the nomination of a live video from Hamburg: The Hammer Klavier Trio with Boris Netsvetaev, piano, Philipp Steen, bass, and Kai Bussenius, drums, recorded at Überjazz Festival on 30. October 2010.”
Read more at the Jazz Journalists Association Awards website:
http://news.jazzjournalists.org/2011/04/video-of-year

A project well worth listening to …. On the other hand the music is featuring that vitality and joy in improvisation, that makes this type of trio so fascinating. Netsvetaevs sparkling piano variations enthused as well as the sometimes quiet, sometimes furious bass solos by Philip Steen. The drums as a gentle rhythmic foundation held […]