Muriel Grossmann

2026 stock As the title of the album suggests, the new album by spiritual jazz legend Muriel Grossmann, MGQ live im King Georg, Köln, is a live recording of a concert at King Georg Jazz Club in Cologne. Recorded on November 11, 2022, the symbolic start of the Cologne carnival season, the album will be released three years later, at the end of the carnival season on Ash Wednesday, March 5. 2025. If by chance a concert in Cologne takes place on the November 11, it's only logical to stick to the numbers. 

Muriel Grossmann, an artist who single-handedly reshaped and reinvented spiritual jazz for this century, and her out-of-this world explosive quartet played a burning live set, converting the King Georg into a musical island. As the carnival hustle and bustle outside began to die down, the club offered music lovers an evening of musical depth. Subdued lighting, an intimate club atmosphere, groove, and optimized sound created a parallel universe of interpretive expansiveness and spiritual contemplation.

The King Georg recording is the first live record from spiritual jazz icon Muriel Grossmann, one of the greatest spiritual jazz performers, recording artist, and composer of today. Together with Radomir Milojkovic on guitar, Abel Boquera on Hammond organ, and Uros Stamenkovic on drums, Grossmann creates a cosmos of sound that is as meditative as it is powerful. In contrast to the studio albums released between 2018 and 2022, which were strongly anchored in modal jazz, this recording shows the quartet's evolution towards an increasingly psychedelic, bluesy, and moody fusion sonic aesthetic beautifully executed under the banner of spiritual jazz.

After several studio albums on the Estonian label RR Gems Records, a compilation on the British label Jazzman Records, and an album on Jack White's Detroit label Third Man Records, 'MGQ live im King Georg, Köln' is the Bands first indispensable live album.