Peter Brötzmann: saxophones, tarogato
Joe McPhee: saxophones, trumpet
Kent Kessler: bass
Michael Zerang: drums
in collaboration with Musicus Concentus - Tradizione in movimento

A superquartet- an authentic all-star new jazz lineup brings together the talents of Peter Brötzmann and Joe McPhee. These two musicians have been active since the mid-Sixties and are still riding high. They are two incomparable masters who have become landmarks for successive generations.
This will be the first time that Brötzmann and McPhee have played together in Italy, despite a long association which has seen them line up many times either in larger groups or with this quartet, which has also produced the marvellous cd Tales Out Of Time on the Hatology label. The Peter Brötzmann-Joe McPhee Quartet produces stunning music, a molten mass of sound, which immediately grabs hold of the listener. Technical mastery and interplay are matched with instant communication and the search for new expressive possibilities.
Saxophonist, clarinetist, and virtuoso tarogato (an instrument used in Hungarian popular music), Peter Brötzmann has been on the scene since the mid-Sixties, when he became known as a soloist, composer and organiser (he is a founder of Free Music Production Berlin). He has played with the Globe Unity Orchestra, the ICP Orchestra, Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock and Ronald Shannon Jackson of the acclaimed Last Exit nsemble.
In the last twenty years he has continully attacked new sonic challenges, working with younger musicians whose own  influences include Brötzmann himself. A key scene for Brötzmann is the Chicago new jazz scene, where he founded the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet. He has also been busy in New York with musicians such as William Parker, Hamid Drake and  Nasheed Waits. He has continued to work with European musicians in numerous groups, always seeking contact with younger generations. He is also active as a visual artist and his works have been exhibited in many prestigious galleries.

Joe McPhee has been on the music scene for more than thirty years and his discography boasting more than sixty titles. He started out in New York, first appearing on on trombonist Clifford Thornton's Freedom And Unity disc in 1967.  In 1974, he began his relationship with the Swiss label Hat Hut, now one of the most prestigious and prolific in contemporary jazz which was originally conceived by Werner X.Uehlinger exclusively as a means of documenting McPhee's music. His records For Hat Hut emphasise the intensity of his performance, switching from instrument to instrument: tenor, trombone, trumpet, percussion, keyboards. He reveals a mature and original musical mastery, a complete synthesis of emotion and formal originality. In the 80's, his work with the composer Pauline Oliveros and interest in the philosopher Edward De Bono led him to conceive Po Music. Po stands for "Positive, Possible, Poetic" and indicates a process of moving out of one collection of ideas in an attempt to discover new ones. In the 90's his music was at the heart of the new jazz scene; he recorded with avant garde Chicago musicians, wth Ken Vandermark and Jed Bishop and worked with Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, William Parker, with sax player Mats Gustaffson's Norwegian group The Thing, and as leader of many projects.

Kent Kessler is a regular member of the Ken Vandermark Five, and, as well as playing in Chicago groups, has worked with European musicians such as pianist Misha Mengelberg, drummer Han Bennink and saxophonist Daniele D'Agaro.
Michael Zerang has worked alongside leaders like Fred Anderson, Ken Vandermark and (like McPhee and Kessler), with Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet.