Matthias Petzold

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  1. Slow Migration - Something Old, Something New

    Slow Migration Band

    Wednesday, 7 April 2027, 8 pmKornkammer, Brühl

    Admission 20.-€, reduced 12.-€ · Tickets and info

    Cover of “Slow Migration”: blue sea creatures – turtles, fish, jellyfish – on a white background

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New CD: “Slow Migration”

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with:

Bela Nicolini – trumpet
Matthias Petzold – tenor saxophone/clarinet
Ulrike Zavelberg – cello
Norman Peplow – piano
Sebastian Ascher – bass
Thomas Esch – drums

Slow Migration

Cover of “Slow Migration”: blue sea creatures – turtles, fish, jellyfish – on a white background

Indigo Records 1015 CD · 2026

Slow Migration

Bullbush River Shuffle

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Harmonik in der Jazzimprovisation (Harmony in Jazz Improvisation)

This comprehensive account of jazz harmony was published in 2023 by AMA-Verlag and is now recommended reading in the jazz department of the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg.

“This is not only a very well-structured textbook that makes understanding enormously easier, but also a successful survey of everything that has shaped – or still shapes – jazz harmony, past and present.” (Jazzpodium)

Jazzharmonik, AMA-Verlag

New band project: Slow Migration

“Slow Migration” is the name of the new band project by saxophonist and composer Matthias Petzold. Petzold’s compositions are groove-oriented and a little more playful than usual. They conjure up images of storks, tortoises, wandering kings, intergalactic journeys, leaps into other planes of time and much more.

The band’s front line of trumpet, saxophone/clarinet and cello sounds unusual and many-layered. The band brings together musicians from different generations, who merge into a dynamic and stylistically diverse unit. Each member of the band brings their own individual sound and style of improvisation to the compositions.

Artwork: Shakur Leni, Kampala/Uganda