A duo’s potential lies in the musician’s ability to nurture each other’s individuality. Here we have two individualists, whose refined awareness of each other enhances their personalities. Sauer has always been one of the most intense musicians of jazz saxophone history, but in the duo with Wollny this aspect of his playing becomes uniquely tangible. And Wollny - whose enormous creative potential can also be witnessed on the CD "Call it" with his trio [em] (ACT 9650-2) – seems to develop an even greater immediacy in accessing his overwhelming talent in his collaboration with Sauer. It would be beside the point to claim that Wollny is Sauer’s fountain of youth, and Sauer is Wollny’s catalyst: Neither of them needs this. Their relationship is more like an animated conversation, a conversation that sends sparks of inspiration flying in all directions.

The title "Certain Beauty" says it all. The beauty that Sauer and Wollny unfold in their music is at times adventurous, rough, always pulsating with strength, uninhibited, yet infinitely tender, full of light and shadow, a magical prism of colour, rich in subtlety, and at once persistently and radically personal. It is the beauty of jazz.

"State-of-the-art for the difficult sax-piano duet business"

(THE GUARDIAN, UK)
 

Jazz record of the year 2006 - "CHOC de l'année,"

JAZZMAN, F