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Stephanie Lottermoser captivates her audience and takes them on an energetic journey through jazz, soul, and pop. Yet this mélange never sounds commercial; she has her own unique signature style, which has earned her a place among the top ranks of the German jazz scene as a composer, performer, and singer. Her music is feel-good jazz in the best sense of the word: emotional and sophisticated, epic and dynamic. (Dieter Ungelenk)
Reports Extra (DOM)
In the Juan Bosch Auditorium of the Pedro Henriquez Ureña National Library, packed with 450 seats, Stephanie Lottermoser and Till Sahm performed 70 minutes of jazz at the highest level. Stephanie Lottermoser's performance is graceful and characterized by very personal and appealing communication with the audience, like a gentle hurricane with lyrical power. The audience showed their appreciation with standing ovations, cheers, and thunderous applause.
Schall Magazine
The eleven tracks prove the jazz saxophonist's outstanding position in the scene. (...) lively, entertaining, dreamy, (...) she also skillfully addresses thought-provoking social issues. The skill with which Lottermoser combines elements of jazz, soul, pop, and funk is absolutely worth listening to and very entertaining. (Ulrich Gruner)
Hamaland Jazz Club
“An impressive evening! It is rare to encounter a personality who creates such an intimate and captivating atmosphere with their own music.”
Hamburg Evening News
"A wonderful, extremely entertaining and varied club evening in the packed NICA Jazzclub, much to the delight of the enthusiastic audience. Stephanie Lottermoser is great at connecting with her audience. She knows how to win people over. By the end, everyone loves her. That was also the case at her Nica debut."
Concerto Magazine
Soulful, funky, and simply untameable—that's how Stephanie Lottermoser's new album comes across. On what is now her sixth album, she plays with the contrasts between need, independence, and self-determination. As a singer and saxophonist, Lottermoser presents her own unique and recognizable language. The eleven tracks are intense, personal, and get under your skin. Music as soft and cuddly as a red plush sofa in a dimly lit lounge, as stirringly erotic as the crackling air of a shady jazz club. Lottermoser knows how to handle emotion, arrangement, and instrumentation in her compositions. Here, all sides of this power woman come to the fore, who, after a few melancholic sounds, immediately goes full throttle again and steers purposefully toward success with straightforward melodies and catchy rhythms.
NDR Culture
Carefully composed, astonishing depth, introspective twists and turns, and repeated enthusiasm for how beautiful life, music, and the city on the Elbe are. Stephanie Lottermoser takes time for extended improvisations and occasionally crowns the rousing, groovy numbers with her clear, unpretentious vocals.
The gateway to the world: Hamburg's port gives it an international and cosmopolitan atmosphere that is the ideal breeding ground for jazz. This music needs a sky-high horizon and a big heart, and it opens up both when you listen to it. (Mauretta Heinzelmann)
Stereoplay
A power woman straight out of a book. An avowed feminist, popular figure, lecturer, and presenter. The saxophonist and singer has continued to develop her musical talents. Born in Munich, now living in Hamburg and having spent many years in Paris, she writes all her own songs, and with IN-DEPENDENCE she has moved even further away from jazz stereotypes." (Lothar Brandt, Stereoplay)
The Bell
Stephanie Lottermoser awakens the senses of her listeners. She utilizes the full, rounded sound of her tenor saxophone and has developed a very special style that represents an authentic form of musically expressed emotions. Virtuoso, rhythmic, and communicative music that leaves "effective" space for brilliant solos that guarantee amazement and applause. Lottermoser's songs condense the time she has experienced."
Stereoplay
With her sixth studio album, the German singer and saxophonist continues to refine her declaration of independence. At its core, we hear strong jazz and soul influences, but also crooner pieces and funky drive. It swings, pops, and bounces, with Stephanie Lottermoser's charming voice further shaping the songs. Her band provides gurgling organ interludes, radiant piano runs, and snappy drumming, while she herself adds further striking accents with her flattering to energetic Yamaha saxophone. (Claus Dick)
JAZZ STAGE
Is Stephanie Lottermoser now more of a singer than a saxophonist? Or more of a composer than a performer? She oscillates freely and stylistically, but always in a well-balanced way, between soul jazz, groove, funk, and sometimes rock jazz, solo and collective improvisations, melody and rhythm.
She still refuses to be pigeonholed or pigeonholed into empty phrases. She is not interested in sophisticated soundscapes or trendy text structures, but rather in carefully balanced, seamless, timeless, self-explanatory, and constantly changing mixtures of tradition and modernity with autobiographical elements. (Rainer Bratfisch)
South German Newspaper
When Stephanie Lottermoser and her band fill the hall with a fine blend of soul, pop, and jazz, time and space become irrelevant. All that matters now is the sound and stage charisma of the singer and saxophonist. The fact that she now performs worldwide is due to the sound with which she occupies a unique position in the jazz cosmos: witty, lively, accessible like the musician herself, and with a kind of optimistic melancholy that you don't hear anywhere else. A drive that makes the sun rise on a cool autumn evening, but then pulls the rug out from under your feet during the calculated mini-breaks. And thus leads to an early conclusion: actually, each of the pieces is too short." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
