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" ...Maria Baptist is a highly professional original artist. Her trio shines with perfection "... (LVZ 18.03.1996) "... Maria Baptist, with her trio and her original compositions, is the New Star of the German Jazz Heaven ..." (Neues Deutschland 17.09.1996) "... One of our favorites at the Young Jazz Star Festival is Maria Baptist. She is an excellent jazzpianist and composer ..." (Jazzthetik, Nov. 1996) "... She has a wide variety of sounds and a powerful intensive drive that raises her audiance to their feet ..." (Program of the ‘Leipziger Jazz Festival') "... Maria Baptist plays with breathtaking impulsiveness and sensitive elegance on her instrument ..." (FVZ March 1997) "...after beautiful chords with a lot of space you can hear a soul groove, incredible fast lines are the preparation for a free-jazz part..." (MOL Nov.1998) "... years ago the pianist Maria Baptist already played so good that the ‘Leipzig Jazzfestival' invited her to perform on the big opera stage. Now she came back with a new and extraordinary trio..., a demonstration of taking risks in the music, being able to play with full dynamic ranges and creating magnificent tension. Maria Baptist's path is a very original one." (LVZ March 1998) "... her lines are very clearly articulated, sometimes her playing leads into a very percussive sound on the keyboard. Also very characteristic is her special touch with a lot of nuances from fluent even lines to a full-power-symphonic sound..." (Jazzpodium 1998) PERSONAL COMMENT:..."the highest goal in music is to reach the people somehow, to take them on a road (like being on a rollercoaster), no metter if in a powerful or gentle way - the energy must flow." (Interview Jazzpodium June 1998)
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