«Top-calibre music, free of clichees, on a international level… Needless to say that all of the seven provide remarkeable solistic statements. Never to put themselves in the foreground, but always embedded in the original sound of the ensemble.»

«We hope that this wonderful group will return soon….His music is far away of stupid highspeed acrobatics as he is from being a boring Copycat. They don’t loose themselves in esoteric-experimental fields, but they show a relation to the roots of Jazz.»

«Mats-Up can be considered as one of the outstanding «working groups« in today’s jazz.»

«A very decided musician and, above all owner of a very rare sensibility… The group is as agile as a trio and as powerful as a Big Band..»

«Spillmann is not only instrumentalist, he is also a curious composer. He thinks in bigger dimensions, sound and forms. The music that he hears needs multiple voices. That’s why he formed his dreamband. And indeed some of the most exciting jazzmusicians meet in this septet.»