Good jazz can be like an exciting movie with unpredictable twists and turns, in which many genres go hand in hand:
Action, crime, comedy, romance, thriller, sometimes even horror. Good instrumentalists create suspense and get our
inner movie theaters moving.
Cinematographic jazz is the name of the music by the band led by saxophonist Tom Reinbrecht, named after a novel by
Canadian Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje: The Cat’s Table. Sitting at the cat’s table on a cruise ship, far away
from the honorable captain and his guests, are the shady but also most fascinating passengers. They are adventurous,
creative and tell exciting stories. Among them are also a handful of exciting musicians, often called “cats” in jazz. Bassist
Patrick Scales and drummer Christian Lettner have taken a seat at Tom Reinbrecht’s The Cat’s Table; together they
formed the long-standing rhythm section of Klaus Doldinger’s Passport. They are joined by keyboard virtuoso Jan Eschke
and, as the album’s special guest, the talented guitarist Ferdinand Kirner.
With this project, the musician musically transcends genre boundaries, seeking the wild and untamed, the rock’n’roll in
jazz, but also the jazz in rock’n’roll. The Cat’s Table is sensual head cinema that is funky and soulful, grooves powerfully,
is melodically seductive and is simply brightly colored in the overall picture. The Cat’s Table plays music that is so
captivating that we forget to reach into the popcorn bucket. Pulsating riffs and funky grooves, powerful hooklines that
become catchy tunes, seductive melodies and epic harmonies, soulful lines and the bittersweet melancholy of the blues…
The 13 (8) tunes on the album “Supernatural Soul Charade” tell a dramaturgical arc of suspense like the successive
scenes in a grippingly staged movie. The spectrum of moods ranges from powerful and poetic calm radiating a spirit of
optimism (East of Western Woods) to dark, driving drama reminiscent of a car chase (Charade) to a dance mood of
infectious joie de vivre (Superfunktural). Within the individual scenes, the musicians improvise their own individual story,
finding their own story in the stories.
With the album Supernatural Soul Charade, Tom Reinbrecht has written a tribute to the music and zeitgeist of the 80s.
From singing in a rock band as a teenager, his musical path led him to jazz, with the saxophone as his main instrument.
After studying music, Tom Reinbrecht became a sought-after big band leader and worked across genres in the jazz,
classical and pop genres with the New York Voices, Paul Carrack and The European Jazz Project, among others. He
recorded his first album with Claudio Roditi and went on to make two further albums with excursions into bebop and
Brazilian pop jazz. His sound is reminiscent of the jazz traditionalists after Charlie Parker, the bluesy expressiveness of
Cannonball Adderly and the velvety tone of Paul Desmond. The jazz critic Charles Regnault described his energetic and
at the same time butter-soft tone as the “tender bite”. With “Supernatural Soul Charade” he returns to his roots:
Cannonball meets Supertramp, Postbop meets 80’s, Desmond meets Mercury.