16th January 2015: Jochen Rueckert’s ‘We Make The Rules’ featured in November issue of Jazzthetik

We Make The Rules is the debut Whirlwind release from the multifaceted drummer & composer Jochen Rueckert, a German native who’s been based in NYC since 1995, where he’s become one of the preeminent artists of his generation known for his work with Marc Copland, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Nils Wogram’s Root 70, Sam Yahel, Will Vinson and Seamus Blake.

The album features Reuckert’s quartet, a stellar cast of players which has been together since 2009, featuring long standing musical cohorts Mark Turner on tenor saxophone, Lage Lund on guitar and Matt Penman on double bass; all three guiding lights of their generation.

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Here’s a highlight from the recent feature in German Magazine Jazzthetik:

“Possibly only someone like Billy Hart can succeed at channeling the enormous force of such a band as discreetly and effectively as Rueckert. In this setting of unlimited freedom of movement and empathy, Mark Turner’ s shimmering sound, weaved into a spiderweb of Lund’s lines, even works a tad better. In between, Rueckert stays constant: a magician of moods, whose rules should absolutely be common knowledge.”
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