Christof Sänger Trio & Ken Peplowski

According to Ken Peplowski, the quartet on 'Enrapture' is the best group he's ever worked with. 'It's a joy to be able to go in any direction you want to go in musically, and know that everyone will just fall in with you. Almost every song was made in one take. We really felt that we captured the spontaneity of a 'live' performance on what were some challenging pieces of music. This is the culmination of sifting through a year's worth of material that best highlights this band. We played as many live performances as we could leading up to the recording date. I care deeply about these songs and hope I've successfully conveyed that to the listeners.'

The third CD encounter between reed specialists Ken Peplowski and Alan Barnes provides a great variety of top-class swinging jazz numbers with an excellent rhythm section. No surprises there then. The surprises and delights come in the choice of material, which is varied and fresh. The opening Tippin’ (Horace Silver) gives a clear indication of what is to come, with Barnes’ baritone leading out, followed by a Dave Green double bass solo and Peplowski’s fluid clarinet rounding things up. Barnes does the rounds of his reed instrument collection, appearing on clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor and alto saxophones across the album, while Peplowski limits himself to clarinet and tenor sax (perhaps due to airline baggage restrictions?)…