The many fulminant and almost sold out concerts of the five-piece electrojazz formation Nighthawks have made the call for a new live album loud again and again. On November 24th 2018 one of the best concert evenings of the last years was recorded at the Fabrik Hamburg!

The new album is called “Next To The Roxy”. The Nighthawks conjure up a picture from days gone by. Cologne once had a cinema which Dal Martino and Reiner Winterschladen simply called Roxy. Even before they retired to the studio, films were often watched there. The rattling of the film spools accompanied the two night kestrels to the adjacent bar, where they exchanged ideas about cinematic parameters such as colour, movement and light. Since these days the cinematic echoes in the work of the Nighthawks and has become formative for the musical work.

While the studio albums were sometimes dismissed as too smooth by some critics, the live document now definitely shows another side: powerful, direct and powerful. Rock and jazz, jazz and rock. This album is a pure distillate from years of playing experience and at the same time clearly stands out from the last live album from 2012. Next To The Roxy’ breathes club atmosphere to the full! And with Hace Mucho it offers a track that came live on stage for the first time that night.