Vienna Red [CD]

An accomplished player with a nuanced touch and a sophisticated harmonic palette, Ratzer has demonstrated a rare command of his instrument going back to his work as an in-demand sideman during the early '80s with such American jazz greats as Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Lee Konitz, James Moody, Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis as well as with his Viennese friend and colleague, pianist Fritz Pauer.