HATKA - Quartet LP Spiritual Jazz Black Duck captures a band

Black Duck captures a band already deeply in tune with one another

Jackie DeShannon

and with a title that says it all: 'The World Is Still Here And So Are We'

It is the last in a trilogy dealing with the notion of larger forces that act on us beyond our conscious mind

while they attempt to grasp at their meaning

HATKA - Quartet LP Spiritual Jazz Black Duck captures a bandHatka performed at Telakka Jazz on the first Friday night of January 2025. The following Sunday the trio visited the studio to record a session music captured in the festival afterglow, fuelled by a shared commitment to free expression. The album is titled Quartet for a reason. A fourth voice, saxophonist Jone Takamki, was originally meant to join the group for both the live performance and the studio recording. Quartet is what was planned and what