Michaela Rabitsch - Vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn
Robert Pawlik - Guitar
Joe Abentung - Double bass
Dusan Novakov - Drums
Michaela Rabitsch - singer and Austria's only female top jazz trumpet player and her ingenius partner - guitarist Robert Pawlik are presenting jazz with catchy melodies, strong harmonies groovy rhythms and adventorious improvisations in a fine balanced vocal – instrumental mix. "Moods" – their third common release, is reflecting their current work - songs out of their lifes.
One seldom equates Austria with having any significant jazz talent, outside of Joe Zawinul, but Moods, by Michaela Rabitsch and Robert Pawlik, proves conclusively that jazz lives on in Austria. Moods is a superb album and a showcase for non-American jazz, and is rapidly becoming one of my albums of the year. (John M. Peters, Music Watch, GB)
High Class, Sassy Brass…that is the ever-evolving legacy of the Rabitsch & Pawlik duet when their Moods spin you! This is an innovative jazz disc, bright, precise, and most of all, diabolically up tempo! Seeing this ensemble live has to be a dynamic kick! (Karl Stober, Jazzreview, USA)
Once melancholic – subtle, then full of energetic power, once misterious, once offensive - as moody as life can be. With lyrics, directly accessed from life , they are touching with tunes which play through all the facetes of being.
With brilliant instrumental technic and a silky velvet voice they are clothing their songs into a trendy, smooth - cool jazzrobe. Music for body and soul!
From Austria they come and this trumpet/guitar led crew just might conquer the world with their sound.
Robert Pawlik:
Studied jazz guitar at Conservatory Vienna, Postgraduate at AIM (with Les Wise, Karl Ratzer) Concerts and recordings with Al Fats Edwards, Andy Lee Lang, Respect, Five in Love... In the last years he focuses especially on his own music played together in quartet or duo with Michaela Rabitsch.
"...incredible fluid guitar playing" (Don W. Seven, LMNOP Magazine, Chatanooga, USA)
Karl Sayer:
One of the most asked bass-players in Austria.
Dusan Novakov:
International performing drummer, living in Vienna, originally from Serbia, studied at Musikhochschule Graz.
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