This way - debut album of the Kmmerling Quartet with playful mainstream jazz The four musicians of the Kmmerling Quartet have been playing together for a dozen of years. Now the simultaneously mature and fresh fruit of this jazz ensemble has been released: their debut album "This Way". This Way is a joint effort by drummer Christoph Freier, bassist Fritz Roppel, Roland Kmmerling on trumpet and Bernd Kmmerling on piano. The ten tracks on the album are based on very different material: Roland's original compositions shine with clear melodic themes in a melancholic, cheerful guise, Bernd's arrangements surprise with powerful bridging between jazz and classical music, two Gershwin standards touch with their own signature and the good old straight folk song is given a whole new lease of life through jazz interpretation. In a sophisticated alternation of ensemble playing and solos of all musicians, the quartet transfers the music into the jazz idiom with its own note and audible joy of playing. Calm, restrained and elegiac forms next to rhythmically accentuated interpretations such as the brisk title piece or lively jazz classics testify to the sovereign interplay of the versati