Of all the varieties of music played on the Latin American continent Bossa Nova is without a doubt the most light-footed. What began in the 1950s with legends like Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto in Brazil, has spread in the meantime over the whole world and is today a fixed star in the international Latin Jazz constellation. Bossa Nova is the jumping off point for HBN to venture off in their own Latin jazz directions, where they repeatedly map out new territory with original world jazz-compositions. On stage, the band, swept along by singer Liza da Costa’s zest for life, is has let out the stops one notch more, to the applause of music critics and a superb reputation enjoyed by the improvisation masters, Tilmann Höhn (guitar), Alexander Sonntag (bass) and Wolfgang Stamm (drums). Hotel Bossa Nova has been on a journey together since 2006, with stops along the way like the Leverkusen Jazztage (D), Festival da Jazz in St. Moritz (CH), Dresdner Jazztage (D) or the Jazzfestival Jazz & Joy (D), Jazz Night Zug (CH), Jazztage Lichtensteig (CH), leaving behind a wake of sold-out concerts and enthusiastic fans. AO VIVO (Otone 2006), SUPRESA (Otone 2009), BOSSANOMIA (ENJA 2011) und NA MEIA LUZ (ENJA 2013) and Desordem & Progresso (ENJA 2015) is an oeuvre which has truly led the Bossa Nova to new vistas. Weaving strands of fado, samba and Afro-Cuban influences together into their European Bossa-Nova tapestry, their sound is always buoyant, without devolving into easy listening. In spite of all their complexity their songs are never head-bound, always down-to-earth and sympathetic. Hotel Bossa Nova live has become a legend, according to not a few exuberant critics, with „Desordem e progresso“opening up new space for their artistic ambitions. The gain in variability and virtuosity in this new album has not been at the expense of playfulness and the enthusiasm for the HBM jazz-world-music-fusion-fireworks, which is unquenchable.
Desordem & Progresso