Mathias Eick

Recently I came across an upcoming jazz player, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, Mathias Eick. Mathias was the 2007 Recipient of the International Jazz Award for new talent. I was impressed with his style and sound. The Guardian aptly described his playing as, “silky un-brass like sound…an undulating groove landscape.”

Mathias has previously worked with the divergent likes of Chick Corea and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra to Norwegian psychedelic rock band Motorpsycho.

Trumpeter Mathias Eick, in the first album released under his own name, ‘The Door,’ captures all the qualities that have made him a musician to be reckoned with in and around jazz for the last decade. ‘The Door’ is distinguished by vaulting lyricism and clear-edged melodies, a strong sense of ambient space in the writing, and edge and excitement and open improvisation.

You also might want to acquire some of the work Mathias did with the jazz rock group Jaga Jazzist.