"Jazz is the freedom of having a lot of forms." This quotation of Duke Ellington is proverbial programme of the Erich FischerQuartet. The bandleader has dedicated himself to the varied and diverse world of Jazz but doesn't shy away from letting theLatinamerican world of Jazz influence his compositions.Ist contents are highly imaginative themes in duos or exciting solos changing from soft and quiet to exstatic bubbling elements.The musical form surprises in variable line ups with the soft sound of the vibraphone in the centre, and a bass not shying awayfrom taking up the melody, with the drums which offers far more than rhythmical basics and are furthermore changing fromsoaring to banging, and the colours of sound of the wind instrument which rounds off the whole excellently. From all tis therearises the gripping energy, the refreshing wit and the passion with which the Erich Fischer Quartet is able to convince.