Haffner, Wolfgang - Heart Of The Matter (LP)
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Wolfgang Haffner / drums, programming, backing vocals
Dominic Miller / acoustic guitar, e-guitar
Sebastian Studnitzky / trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals
Eythor Gunnarsson / fender rhodes, piano, synth
Nicolas Fiszman / bass
Bruno Müller / e-guitar
The title "Heart of the Matter" of Wolfgang Haffner's latest album is definitely more than just a play on words. For Germany's most highly decorated drummer, including the Echo Jazz 2010 award, his profession has been "a matter of the heart" ever since he began his career at the tender age of 18 in Albert Mangelsdorff's band. The work that followed for innumerable German and international stars and his participation on more than 400 albums bears witness to this. But only since he started recording his own albums as an ACT artist has he felt close to the "heart of the matter": "I don't see myself as just a drummer anymore, but as a universal musician. I compose, arrange, seek out and enter worlds of sound. That is my thing."