'Decidophobia' is the debut album by the Maik Krahl Quartet on the Jazz thing Next Generation series. Trumpeter Krahl is joined by Constantin Krahmer (Piano), Oliver Lutz (bass) and Hendrik Smock (drums).

"Decidophobia" is the fear of making decisions i.e. that as a result of a decision, one may make an irreparable error which may ruin your future. "Especially as a jazz musician, you are forced continually to make decisions. Everything that you do has a direct influence on the band and the character of the piece… It is a question of with which musicians I record, and which pieces are included on the CD," Krahl explained.

The seven songs on the CD are brimming with bold inspiration, amazing solutions, compositional finesse and stupendous virtuosity. At the same time, you can detect an interesting portfolio of influences, which Maik Krahl absorbed voraciously during his studies at Carl Maria von Weber College in Dresden as well as Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. However, nobody should be surprised at this with teachers such as Till Brönner, Malte Burba and Ryan Carniaux. The latter praises his student in the liner notes as an extraordinary young musician, "who is solidly rooted in the past, oriented to the needs of the present in everything he does and at the same time always looks to the horizon to recognize at an early stage everything that the future might bring forth."