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Having grown up in Potsdam and Berlin, Moses Yoofee has long been active in the german jazz scene, and in 2013, when just 14 years old, he was described by Germany's Tagesspiegel as a "young jazz genius". Despite the band's name, however, the trio's an equal partnership. They came together after Moses met Roman Klobe (raised in south Germany) at Berlin's Jazz Institute, and it was the latter who suggested they jam with his friend Noah Fürbringer, a native of Munich studying in Mannheim. "It felt really good," Moses recalls of the experiment. "Instant love! And Noah wanted to move to Berlin anyway." In 2021, Noah, already well-known for sharing videos of his exceptional drumming, started posting footage of the trio's rehearsals on social media. Another video, uploaded by Roman, rapidly helped grow their audience, and as word spread across Europe, they began playing further afield. Recent highlights include a 2,500-capacity Elbjazz Festival booking beside Hamburg's harbour, a riotous appearance at London's Jazz Festival, and an intimate gig before 200 people at the German capital's now redundant Tempelhof Airport on the rooftop of an air traffic control tower.

Following 2023’s ‘Ocean‘ mini-album, Berlin’s Moses Yoofee Trio share their debut full-length, MYT, via LEITER on February 7, 2025. The German group – who, since forming in 2020, have cultivated an extraordinary reputation and won the 2024 German Jazz Prize’s prestigious Live Act of The Year award – recorded much of the album over ten days in April 2024 at Glaswald Studios, in the countryside outside Stuttgart, before returning to Berlin to polish the results and record two further tracks at LEITER’s Funkhaus studio. Turning as much to RnB, hip hop and soul as more traditional jazz sources, the new album’s tracks display a remarkable determination to distil the trio's work to its essence, allowing their prodigious talents and graceful versatility to flourish in uncluttered surroundings. Their goals, they state concisely, are “emotions, moments and bangers”, and careful attention was paid to arrangements to ensure nothing superfluous made the cut. — via Label

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Label: Leiter
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 2025
Genre: Jazz
Style: Jazz-Funk, Fusion

File under: Modern / Future Jazz
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