"Young German Jazz" enters the next round, and once again it draws attention to the many highly talented and promising young German musicians, that make up a scene that needs to fear no international comparison. The ACT-series "Young German Jazz" not only documents this, it also wishes to support these musicians and help them gain recognition in- and outside the country. The reaction so far has been overwhelming, and rave reviews from abroad prove that young German jazz is perfectly capable of successfully crossing borders. The best example may be the trio [em] grouped around the young shooting star Michael Wollny. The "Süddeutsche Zeitung", among other publications, claims that Wollny is already in the top league of German, maybe even of European Jazz-musicians. In France (jazzman) and in England (jazzwise) the album was mentioned among the best new releases of 2005.

The story of this latest release in the series, "Remember Chet" begins with a chain of coincidences: Some years ago Julian Wasserfuhr was given a Chet Baker record by his father and his brother. They hadn’t been looking for Baker; it was the cover of the album that caught their attention. But their choice was to prove consequential, the first impression to prove correct. Julian immediately realized: "This is how I want to sound." In the meantime he has come a lot closer to his ideal of a sound rich in timbre, with shadings that reach from crystal clear to brittle. 

Listening to these recordings, we get the feeling that Julian Wasserfuhr marches to the beat of a different drummer; he completely disregards the traditional chronology of a musical career. On "Remember Chet" he shows great respect for his role model and for the tradition, yet the way in which he does this, leads us to expect quite a bit in the future.