"...Naked is one hour of exellent music, where every single musician shows his personal capacity, with a collective voice able to go way beyond the simple execution of the music. There is a great team, and Rolff shows without any doubt a bassplayer able to drive such a great band." all about jazz .com "Great maturity and great and elegant musicianship, they have built their path and their sensibility on the research of a choral sound, at the highest technical and musical level" sound contest .com "Rolff makes a step forward and finds new inspiring energy, with the Naked Quartet, where the music is really laid bare: without embellishments, without devotion to that mysterious and ambiguous - taste of the big audiences -, that produces basic things, and owns the supposition to really know what people really want. Rolff is careful of the beat, of the elastic and exact rhythmic presence, of melodies that spring in a moment of inspiration, that become obligatory training for wonderful solo flights." guido festinese - italian jazz institute "... in Naked we can feel love for a mind adventure, where fantasy, creative emotions e great precision in details meet together in a single path..." la repubblica Max Rolff, re-introduces himself “naked”: and this word could have many meanings, in the complex world of the bassist and composer that, has for a while now, been one of the most active cultural souls around. Rolff makes a step forward and finds new inspiring energy, with the Naked Quartet: Emanuele Cisi, Andrea Pozza, Enzo Zirilli. Musicians of absolute excellence and acclaimed sobriety, they are ideal travel mates for Rolff’s “mainstream jazz”. Rolff is careful of the beat, of the elastic and exact rhythmic presence, of melodies that spring in a moment of inspi- ration, that become obligatory training for wonderful solo flights: much more here, than in the the bass players’ excellent previous album, “Unit Five”. Rolff tells that for many months his CD system played numerous Joe Henderson records: and here you can find many thoughts and the ductile writing of this unsung hero, that delicate and essential moment that brought hard-bop towards more open forms of jazz, to unknown territories where a musical revolution of sufferance took place. Sometimes, as happens in Naked, it is important for us to witness a crossing passage, the coming of age. Guido Festinese Italian Jazz Institute