“First step around the river” is our first recording together, after a few years looking for opportunities to
play with each other . We wanted to explore the bond that we share through music, where we find a
playful and especial way of connecting and trusting each other. Choosing original songs and some of our
favorite jazz standards as our playground, we looked to put our own voices into it, thinking of the
recording day as an opportunity to bring some new life to the music. As a result we came up with this
songs, both daring and friendly, to listen closely, relax and enjoy.

Honest, minimalistic, swingy, acoustic, dualistic – and most of all Jazz. These might be the first attributes one finds while listening to Nicola Missing (vocals) and Manuel Luque (double bass). They deliberately take old jazz tunes and translate them in a raw, intimate, engaging conversation between double bass and vocals, between walking bass and scat syllables – between rhythm and melody – between listener and artist.