Fourscore is liberated from the dogma of Eurojazz. In their way of playing the instant of immediate musical performance expands to fill half a century

For nearly a hundred and twenty years, jazz has been the flexible quintessence of constant renewal. What is avantgarde today can turn into tradition tomorrow, but anyone who loses sight of the tradition is holding bad cards for the renewal. In the age of globalization and virtualization, artistic niches and epi-centers begin to break down in every conceivable cultural experience. That is precisely were a band like Fourscore sees its chance. Fourscore is four young German jazz musicians, and yet they have no use for labels like Young German Jazz or the Next Generation.
But what does it mean to say a young, almost unknown German bad stands entirely for itself? After all, Fourscore is not reinventing jazz. On the contrary, every note reveals a devoted respect for jazz tradition. More than almost anyone else in his generation, guitarist Alexander Jung has internalized the playing of guitar legend Jim Hall. Saxophonist Tobias Meinhart makes no secret of his admiration for Seamus Blake. Fourscore is liberated from the dogma of Euro jazz. In their way of playing, the instant of immediate musical performance expands to fill half a century. They are traditionalists in the best sense of the word, skill-fully skirting the tempting traps of retro and revival. In fast-living times like ours, that is an enormously long time to transform arbitrariness into originality and models for imitation into one's own idiom. In the face of ever more rapid succession of alleged 'next generations,' who can still summon up that much patience? But Jung, Meinhart, and Co. know very well that the sweet days of youth vanish quickly. If the quartet is now finally daring to put out its debut album, Add to Friends, on a hopelessly overloaded and merciless market, it won't do any good to appeal to its role models. 'You have to have the courage to let go of your role models. Then your own stories emerge all by themselves,' is the band's credo.

Track Listing

• Storyville
• Lina
• 3malohne4
• Morgenrot
• Slightly
• Seamus Jam
• Utriculus
• Frl. Annie
• Laverne Walk

Additional Details

Label: Intuition

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 59:40 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 07/25/25

UPC: 750447342125