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Nils Wogram Solo: "Bright Lights"
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Open in the appNILS WOGRAM || BRIGHT LIGHTS One trombone, nothing else! What has long been the norm on piano or guitar still seems unusual on the trombone, not to say daring. Yet this uncommon constellation has quite a tradition in German jazz. Albert Mangelsdorff and Conny Bauer pioneered it,… NILS WOGRAM || BRIGHT LIGHTS One trombone, nothing else! What has long been the norm on piano or guitar still seems unusual on the trombone, not to say daring. Yet this uncommon constellation has quite a tradition in German jazz. Albert Mangelsdorff and Conny Bauer pioneered it, presenting their instrument as a solo instrument on several style-defining albums and countless solo concerts. With his solo debut "Bright Lights," Nils Wogram not only builds on this great tradition but simultaneously opens it up to completely new perspectives. Nils Wogram has long since had no need to prove his musical skills. With his bands Root 70 and Nostalgia, he has made a name for himself worldwide, and through countless other projects – among others alongside Simon Nabatov, Bojan Z. or Michel Portal – he established himself as a strong-willed team player. He lets you hear what he himself wants to hear. In the Vertigo Trombone Quartet or in his duo with Conny Bauer, he has already explicitly featured the sound of the trombone. Yet precisely because of this, it was only a matter of time before Wogram would also assert his relationship to the solo trombone. Unlike those pioneers of this subject, he no longer needs to position his instrument among solo instruments, but can simply play. In other words, Wogram doesn't need to provide an instruction sheet for the music on "Bright Lights" explaining why he's even making a solo album. He has nothing to prove, doesn't need to spell out the playing possibilities of the trombone and its improvisational derivations song by song, but can cheerfully and engagingly blow his own stories through the horn. Although Wogram relies on just a single sound source without technical aids or extensions, his artistic maxim is just as integrative as when playing with a large band. Every…