*BOOM BOX*
thomas borgmann / willi kellers - drums / akira ando - bass

"Borgmann, here on the soprano saxophone, is playing an unusual lyricism and beautiful sounds of a somehow childish innocence...
This is free jazz, for sure. However, no one among them imagine what it expected here.
This is jazz in its original sense"
Ulrich Olshausen, 2010 (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

liner notes from new CD boom box ~ jazz ~
...how wonderful this band swings. always. and this swing is divisible by three. Keller's cymbals work alone in this piece - what a light, complex movement.
that is not only flying - that is the spreading of feathers, contraction of muscles, turning the device, select the aisles.
and there will be sung. on the tenor and the soprano in the exchange, in the battle. the hymn-like tone and analytical tone. the groan and that say. find a motif that is beautiful in itself, staying by itself, being an offer - to tense it up, overcoating, to tear or develop.

the heroes have already flown away. from the important precursors of the trio with Wilber Morris and Denis Charles only Borgman is still there.
ghost can be summoned and ALBERT & FRANK begins with GHOSTS, the spirit of the small bird that died like a dog. Also Albert Ayler and Frank Wright sang, did no "broken play."
the conservative talk of variations, the free one talk of energy. But this music, jazz, fly far beyond that. It defies the everyday pulse flow from beauties. and an attitude. ("Everything that is beautiful, is also politically," said Parker Williams, who does hold it more with flowers than with birds.especially with those who are cut off before they bloom.)

ONLY FOR DÖRTE at the end - a love poem, a dark tongeflecht, a shadow dance, rising out of two delicate, fragile accordion chords, almost back to cancel, but in the end, with all sorts of disorders, just want to stay. it goes all to one point, this fluttering and chirping: a precarious moment of some kind of waiting harmony. boom box play jazz. and jazz deals with flying and singing.
jan Künemund, Berlin, september 2010

*BOOM BOX & ROY CAMPBELL*

Berlin-based saxophonist Thomas Borgmann has been surprising the world of jazz for since years with new groups and their international line-ups. His success in Europe and overseas demonstrates that he is one of the most important musicians of modern jazz music.

BOOM BOX is his newest & most spectacular project, and it includes the Canadian bassist Joe Williamson (known from groups with Han Bennink and Evan Parker) and the Australian Tony Buck on drums (Clifford Jordan, John Zorn, PERIL). Something very special is of course his meeting with Roy Campbell on trumpet. He is one of the busiest trumpet-player in New York, studied with Lee Morgan and Kenny Dorham and played in such different bands like Sun Ra Arkestra, Cecil Taylor Unit, David Murray and Eddie Harris, where he could show his enormous musical spectrum.

‘Westfälische Nachrichten‘ (17th April, 2000) about the last concert of BOOM BOX & Roy Campbell at Münster:

Great Free Jazz at the Landesmuseum – Four musicians in ecstasy!

>...350 people followed the invitation to a concert of jazz in various shapes & genres...there were people who couldn’t remain seated on their chairs, while the others pay homage to the group with applause and enthusiasm...<

and the ‘Münstersche Zeitung’ (17th April, 2000) wrote aboute the same concert:

>...four excelent musicians...played a wild mixture of Cool & Free Jazz with parts of Ethno-Pop & Experimentalmusic...Was it nice? Not always. Was it good? From the beginning up to the end. But there was only one encore.<