Thomas Borgmann loves to vary his trios with Willi Kellers by regularly adding musically related bass colleagues, sometimes even expanding the ensemble. He also frequently collaborates with the young Brazilian bassist Vinicius Cajado, who has since moved from Vienna to Berlin and whose solo debut CD "Monu" was nominated for "Best of the Year 2021" by "The New York City Jazz Record." His duo with Joëlle Léandre (Storm Dance) is also noteworthy. Most recently, he was celebrated at the 2023 Berlin Jazz Festival in a trio with Zoh Amba.
Saxophone meets drums meets bass – with full force.
In long, often flowing pieces, Borgmann, Willi Kellers, and Vinicius Cajado create music that oscillates between lyrically peaceful and ecstatic phases, between expansive and dense playing. The result promises a "masterfully improvised, complex workout with keys and screws, in which the notes rise from the bell of Borgmann's infamous saxophone as if they were lighter than air.".
""Telling a story in a song without words has been the natural domain of the saxophone, especially in the hands of an expert such as Borgmann. To succeed he would need a sound to die for and an ability to instil in a song, some kind of authentic sentiment drawn from the possibility of the absent words. The saxophonist is blessed with a combination of prodigious wind-playing attributes – dare one say brooding, Germanic – approach to phrasing, quite astonishingly outstanding intonation and a sound which is open and honest, even and focused on all registers.""