Phantom Happiness Johannes Enders

• 1 Destination Peace 06:20
• 2 Shooting Star Before Bedtime 04:12
• 3 A Little Too Friendly 04:53
• 4 A Blessing in the Skies 04:33
• 5 Wayne Ahead 05:21
• 6 Loosing You 05:34
• 7 Phantom Happiness 04:05
• 8 Why 04:39
• 9 Sunday Blues 04:42
• 10 7680 08:05
• Total Runtime 52:24

Info for Phantom Happiness

With Phantom Happiness, Johannes Enders presents a new international jazz quartet at the highest artistic level. At his side are pianist Rainer Böhm, American bassist Doug Weiss, and legendary drummer Jorge Rossy. Four strong musical personalities united by a shared sonic ideal of depth, freedom, and narrative power. At the core are exclusively new compositions by Johannes Enders — music that oscillates between lyrical intimacy and energetic urgency. Phantom Happiness explores fragile moments of happiness, fleeting moods, and the tension between inner calm and restless motion. Melodic clarity meets open forms, complex rhythms meet spontaneous interaction. The quartet captivates with an exceptionally sensitive interplay: Enders’ distinctive, expressive tenor saxophone sound unfolds over Rainer Böhm’s richly colored harmonies, supported by the deep, elastic pulse of Doug Weiss and the refined yet powerful rhythmic language of Jorge Rossy. Phantom Happiness is modern jazz with depth and conviction —personal, contemporary, and uncompromisingly musical.

Johannes Enders, tenor saxophone
Rainer Böhm, piano
Doug Weiss, bass
Jorge Rossy, drums

Johannes Stefan Enders
(born 1967 in Weilheim, Upper Bavaria) is a German jazz saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator. Since 2009, he has held a professorship in jazz saxophone in Leipzig. His musical career began at the age of 14, when he switched from the flute to the alto saxophone and discovered his passion for soul and jazz music. Following a period of study under Jürgen Seefelder and André Legros at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, he moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in 1987 to study jazz saxophone and improvisation with Charlie Miklin, Adelhard Roidinger, and Carl Drewo. After encounters with artists such as Jerry Bergonzi, David Liebman, Vincent Herring, and Reggie Workman, he received a scholarship to attend The New School in New York. There, he studied and performed with luminaries including Donald Byrd, Jaki Byard, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Joey Calderazzo, Sam Rivers, Peter Bernstein, Joe Locke, Pete LaRoca, and Roy Hargrove. He was awarded the Silver Trophy at the "American Music Fest" in San Francisco (1990) and participated in the Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington, D.C. Upon returning to Germany, Johannes Enders quickly established himself as one of the most significant voices on the tenor saxophone and was signed by the label ENJA Records. He has founded various ensembles, including his acoustic quartet, the saxophone quartet "ZeitGeistMaschine," and duo projects with jazz legend Günter "Baby" Sommer and pianist Rainer Böhm, as well as his electro-jazz projects "Enders Room" and "Enders Dome." Over the years, his immense creative output has earned him... He has been honored with the Austrian Jazz Prize, the City of Munich’s Cultural Advancement Award for Music, the SWR Jazz Prize, the Weilheim Cultural Prize, the New German Jazz Prize, the 2012 Jazz Echo, the German Music Authors’ Prize, and the Bavarian State Advancement Award. As a sought-after sideman in bands such as The Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio, the Billy Hart European Quintet, Günter Baby Sommer’s Quartett Süd, the Franco Ambrosetti Quartet, the Karl Ratzer Quintet, and many others, Johannes Enders has performed in all the major clubs and at all the significant festivals, and has appeared on over 100 studio recordings to date.

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