Volker Kriegel & Friends: Live at Berlin Jazz Days'81 (DVD)

The "Motor" of this concert was built from the core of the "Mild Maniac Orchestra" with Volker Kriegel on guitar and Thomas Bettermann on keyboards. Completing the line-up are three extraordinary musicians: Eberhard Weber on bass, Wolfgang Schlueter on vibraphone and Ralf Huebner on drums. Calm, pending sounds, sequences like movie soundtracks, artful swapping, virtuoso ending in swinging solos and finally far settling into melancholic prevailing moods with subliminal, quiet pleasure, which made everything Volker Kriegel did so distinctive.