Since the 1990s the four musicians have been working through all the possible combinations of bass clarinet, trumpet, double bass and drums. Working with Alexander von Schlippenbach they achieved a coup: Monk's entire oeuvre presented as a live concert throughout one evening and documented in a three-CD box set. The traditional music is played anew, and the traditional is reflected in the new. This is the way jazz always developed, through minute shifts suddenly manifesting themselves as huge breaks with tradition – at least to people who were not following its history. Die Enttäuschung have absorbed an unbelievable amount of jazz history and transferred it into a living musical process, musical lava, formed by aworking band who are still able to surprise themselves, unfurling the full potential of their musical imagination with the new album Vier Halbe.

Cover art and photo: Katja Mahall
Graphic design Jonas Schoder

Recorded 2012 in Berlin by Christian Betz. Mixed by Axel Dörner. Produced by Die Enttäuschung and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records.