«5 is a very strong album and we hope that MATS-UP will find a lot of new friends with it.…
«Spillmann’s compositions are rather lyrical in their approach, with strong melodies and lines that stick in one’s head… What “5”…
«Because I admire Matthias Spillmanns’ composing and playing, I had high expectations for the new Mats-Up album and it satisfyingly…
«These small symphonies still inspire, arranged with love and a keen sense for athmosphere… the instrumental pieces written by Spillmann…
«An original thing, this new ‘exhibition’. » music **** sound **** »
«Jazz trumpet player Matthias Spillmann and his septet deal with Musorgskys classic ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’, arranged it congenially and…
«Wonderful atmosphere and jazzy firework… As for the question of combining the classical work with jazz: not only the jazz…
«He succeeds to keep the thrill throughout both of the cds because the sound that this group creates with four…
«The result is a jazz suite, in which the musicians handle the classic material very freely in their improvisations and…
«Transparently condensed or broadend for his minimal big band Spillmann doesn’t lift the chest, he makes it fly. And the…