Initially recording for ACT's ‘Young German Jazz’ series in 2006 with Remember Chet, this sibling union has gone on to collaborate with such established label artists as Lars Danielsson and Nils Landgren through to a younger jazz generation based in Cologne on Running (2013), their most recent album. For their fifth recording on the high-profile Munich Label, the trumpeter Julian and pianist Roman, with the guidance of the label's head honcho Siggi Loch, headed off to Brooklyn in search of inspiration. There they met with current big hitters, the saxophonist Donny McCaslin and bassist Tim LeFebvre, both members of David Bowie's final band and recorded Landed in Brooklyn. Of the covers ‘Durch Den Monsun’ and Sting's ‘Seven Days’ demonstrate their penchant for rock-song instrumental textures and trumpeter Julian's instinct for the kind of 1980s Miles-era-influenced trumpet-led pop-fusion balladeering that has fed into the work of another German trumpeter, Till Brönner. However, on originals, the Wasserfuhr brothers declare their commitment to the tradition, showing an interest in the soul jazz of Herbie Hancock and Nat Adderley as well as occasionally heading into free bop territory. Alongside McCaslin's flat-out, pretty straightahead soloing, Nate Wood's blustering contemporary beats and LeFebvre's bold-toned funk bass, it's an enthusiastic, accessibly mainstream blow.