All the best, dear Peter!

Peter Schärli has been performing on stage for almost fifty years. In this country, of course, and in the European region, but also at festivals halfway around the world, in Asia, Africa, Central and South America. There are reasons for this constant success - consistent quality at a high level. And the fact that this often prevails sooner or later is one of the comforting realizations of our existence.

Glenn Ferris is also one of the few world-class musicians who can claim to have played with the brilliant Frank Zappa: As a very young trombonist, he was a member of the small Wazoo Orchestra, which played a few of Zappa's best and most complex compositions on a world tour. Ferris has been working professionally since he was sixteen years old and his discography, with over a hundred CDs under his own name and as a sideman, reads like a Who's Who of jazz and pop music: from Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Tim Buckley and the Average White Band to Don Ellis, Quincy Jones, Art Pepper, Tony Scott, Archie Shepp and Billy Cobham to John Scofield, Michel Petrucciani and the Brecker Brothers.

Quality also means artistic integrity for Schärli. An artist does not have to fulfill expectations, he has to be himself. Schärli is exactly that, the result is a body of work that is constantly evolving, yet always bears his signature. You can feel it in the music here: there are beautiful melodies, clever chords, plus swing, drive, sophisticated improvisations, virtuoso craftsmanship, empathetic interplay - in short, everything that good music can offer. What more could we want?