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"...it (Hammer Klavier Trio) cracked through the seemingly impenetrable surface of the New York club scene during its week in Manhattan." Dan Bilawsky, live review in allaboutjazz.com full review, 24. June 2011 "Boris and the boys - were simply fantastic. I even enjoyed the funk." - Mitch Borden, Co-owner of Smalls Jazz Club, Greenwich Village, NY, U.S.A., 12. June 2011 “Fantastic“ - Josh Jackson, host of the Jazz Journalists Association Awards Gala 2011 and of "The Checkout" on WBGO Jazz FM, the largest jazz station in the U.S.A., 11. June 2011 "We believe they will represent the current dynamism of German jazz." - "Pianist Randy Weston, trumpeter Wallace Roney's Sextet, soprano sax/flutist Jane Bunnett with pianist Hilario Duran, and the Hammer Klavier Trio from Hamburg will play up a storm at the gala to further demonstrate the power and beauty of what we're talking about." - "Musical highlights in New York included conguero Candido Camero‘s performance with flutist/saxophonist Jane Bunnett and pianist Hilario Duran, and then with pianist Randy Weston and TK Blue playing flute — also Gregory Porter‘s powerful vocalizing and band and the Hammer Klavier Trio from Hamburg." Howard Mandel, President of the Jazz Journalists Association, 10. March and 12. June 2011 "But the Jazz Journalists Association came up with a nice consolation prize: they invited the ensemble, which often is compared with EST and The Bad Plus, to New York for their gala ceremony of the Jazz Journalists Association Awards to perform live in the City Winery..... One can only recommend German New York residents and tourists to attend one of the concerts of this incredibly dynamic trio." -German Jazz Magazine "JazzEcho" about the short tour in New York, USA in June 2011 "The small sensation in the otherwise strictly americophile Association is the nomination of a live video from Hamburg: The Hammer Klavier Trio with Boris Netsvetaev, piano, Philipp Steen, bass, and Kai Bussenius, drums, recorded at Überjazz Festival on 30. October 2010." - German Jazz Magazine "Jazzthing" about the nomination for Video-of-the-Year candidate for the 2011 Awards by the Jazz Journalists Association "Pianist Boris Netsvetaev, Bassist Philipp Steen und Kai Bussenius am Schlagzeug zählen längst zur jungen wilden Avantgarde der deutschen Triobesetzungen. Beeinflußt vom pop-orientierten Sound eines Esbjörn Svensson, immer hart an eingängigen Grooves und repititiven Melodielinien segelnd, sorgt das "Hammer Klavier Trio" für deutlich frischen Wind in der Jazzlandschaft." - Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Januar 2011 “Sie gehören zu den interessantesten Namen der jungen Szene“ - Jazzthetik, November 2008 “Straight-Ahead Jazz, somewhere between Monk and Bad Plus.” - Jazzthetik, November 2008 "…gestandener Großmeister seiner Zunft mit drei hochtalentierten und in allen Stilwassern der Jazzgeschichte versierten Nachwuchskräften (Boris Netsvetaev, Philipp Steen, Kai Bussenius)…“ - Die Welt, 21.01.2008 – Konzertreview Wolfgang Schlüter Quartet - Norddeutsche Neueste Nachrichten, 14.06.2010
 “Das jugendliche Ensemble ist tief in den Inkarnationen des Jazz im 21. Jahrhundert verwurzelt: Genre-Hopping, globale Einflüsse und Hingabe an die kollektive Freiheit.” - AllAboutJazz-New York, Februar 2009  Press Material for Journalists:
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