Mocambo Affair Dominik Raab, Tony Lakatos, Billy Test

• 1 Staring At The Sun 05:31
• 2 Narc And Bark In The Park 06:02
• 3 Emil 05:27
• 4 Add 4 04:04
• 5 Alfred Jodokus Kwak 04:49
• 6 Smirk 04:19
• 7 Mocambo Affair 04:40
• 8 Quick Sip 03:34
• 9 Sneaky 03:43
• Total Runtime 42:09

Info for Mocambo Affair

Second album by the Cologne drummer and composer in his quartet line-up with Tony Lakatos (tenor saxophone), Billy Test (piano) and Doug Weiss (bass) as a CD in a beautifully designed three-part digipack on JazzJazz. After ‘Choose Loose’ (2022), ‘Mocambo Affair’ is the second album that Dominik Raab has recorded together with Tony Lakatos, Billy Test and Doug Weiss. Like the quartet's first album, it consists exclusively of original compositions by Raab, with the nine new tracks sounding even more gripping and passionate. Lakatos, Test, Weiss and Raab complement each other with somnambulistic confidence to form a virtuoso team that lets Raab's visions shine. ‘Mocambo Affair’ is a work of art as if from a single mould and offers pure listening pleasure. Rich in moods, colours and rhythms, it was recorded and mixed by Clemens Orth in the Salon de Jazz Studio in Cologne's Südstadt district, whose spatial intimacy also contributes to maximum listening pleasure. Wonderful jazz, lovingly fuelled by the tradition of swing and bebop, yet at the same time modern, fresh and thoroughly contemporary.

Tony Lakatos, tenor saxophone
Billy Test, piano
Martin Gjakonovski, double bass
Dominik Raab, drums

Dominik Raab
is a Jazz Drummer currently living in Cologne/Germany and an active part of the European Jazz scene.

He has worked with musicians such as Jim McNeely, James Morrison, Nelson Faria, Eric Alexander, Don Braden, Ralph Moore, Bruce Forman, Bob Mintzer, Norma Winstone, Denise Jannah a. o.

He worked with several large groups like the WDR Big Band, SWR Big Band, HR Big Band, Sunday Night Orchestra, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Jazzkombinat Hamburg, LJJO Hessen.

Performances and tour activities in Europe and internationally (India, South Africa, Kyrgyztan, Poland, Cyprus, Greece, Russia).

Studies at the University of Music Würzburg (Diploma of Arts and Education) and the University of Music Nürnberg (Master Degree).

His teachers included Marco Hohmann (1st!), Tommy Fischer, Bill Elgart, Dirik Schilgen, Bastian Jütte, HG Brodmann and Hannes Nied.

He studied privately with Paul Höchstädter.

Several awards and prices confirm Dominik's ability to play a supporting and inspiring role as a drummer: Jugend Jazzt, Junger Münchner Jazzpreis, LAG Jazzpreis, Sparda Jazz Award, Bruno Rother Wettwerb a.o. Occasional lessons with American masters like Adam Nussbaum, Joe Farnsworth, Ari Hoenig and Carl Allen.

This album contains no booklet.