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MAUGER is a band from Belgium, with former musicians of Absynthe Minded. We try to capture moments. Beauty lies in the rawness of a live performance, and that is the basics of our songs. The joy of playing together and grabbing the moment as it comes at full force. No overthinking. The moment was good.

For way too long, Mauger Mortierwrote songs just for himself, recorded them on old cassettes, and kept them safe in a box. A trip to Costa Rica, a music studio with jungleview and some lucky shots later, and suddenly a band was shaped. The quartet with Jan Duthoy, Jakob Nachtergaele and Matthias Debusschere, released their first full album, Sunday Competition in 2019, and is finishing its second album, coming up by the end of 2022.

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Members of the much remembered classic quartet of Anthony Braxton and bandleaders in their own right, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway are the first names we consider when asked to mention the best improvisers on their respective instruments, the double bass and the drum kit. Extraordinarily gifted musicians, innovators of defining and expanding the meaning of contemporary jazz, and being of wholly creative minds, Dresser and Hemingway are always capable of surprising us. On “The Beautiful Enabler” these two veterans of creative music join forces with the younger, but equally notable, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. His versatility and virtuosity combined with the depths of his multi-cultural roots (he was born in Italy to South Indian parents, raised in Colorado, educated in Boston and Chicago, now living in New York), justify his fame as a “rising star”. This CD is a fine example of empathy and group interaction, something only possible when the musicians involved are selflessly concerned with the musical results of the ensemble and not their own individual performances. While this is always considered to be the ultimate goal of jazz (which at its core defines itself as a collective music), it is generally not easily accomplished. How many times have great virtuosos been unsuccessful in creating a cohesive message with their musical partners in the ways displayed on this recording? Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.