Big Breeezy – Mumble Jazz

The young Cologne-based Victor Fox has named his quartet Mumble Jazz. He has formed it with him on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet and alto saxophonist Fabian Dudek plus a rhythmically agile rhythm section consisting of Roger Kintopf (bass) and Joshua Knauber (drums). The extent to which the German translation of the English verb ‘to mumble’ could have played an onomatopoeic role in the naming of the band is as unclear as the answer to the question of why Fox called his alter ego Big Breeezy. Ultimately, this is completely irrelevant. The four young musicians play jazz that is completely committed to the present day, it is rhythmically impetuous improvised music that knows no stopping – it is the soundtrack of the unjustly scolded Generation Z, for whom the hip hop of a Notorious B.I.G. is just as relevant as the free jazz of an Ornette Coleman or Eric Dolphy.