Duo Nat Su & Jean-Paul Brodbeck

In the experienced duo of Nat Su and Jean-Paul Brodbeck, the songs of the Great American Songbook take the foreground. Seldom-heard tracks, from Wayne Shorter’s “Pay as you go” to Isla Eckinger’s “A Moment in Montreux”, find themselves at home in the very melodic, flowing repertoire. The starting point is the pleasure in the song. The unaffected, unforced and rhythmically direct expression of their playing, on the one hand, leads to an orchestral and harmonic familiarity inspired by tradition and, on the other, provides the line-up with the appropriate free space. It is this unpretentious and full-bodied whole that lends the music its magnetic and lasting effect.