Nita, a group that brings together no more and no less than musicians of five nationalities: its leader, Anja Gottberg, comes from from Sweden, and next to her are the Irish Micheal Murray on sax, the Spanish Antonio Moreno on trumpet (also winner of the first prize in the category of Best Soloist), the Dutch Siebren Smink on guitar and Magnus Austad, from Norway, on drums. All of them coincided at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and together they form this wonderful quintet that knew how to win the appreciation of the jury and the public with a determined, convincing and lucid defense of their proposal in the context, always competitive and difficult, of a contest in which you have to fight with groups often of good level and that, like you, do not come here to pass the time, but to win.
Nita displayed something that is already a great value in itself: a healthy and intelligent balance between their collective packaging and the personality of each of the individuals that form it, a challenge that every self-respecting jazz group tries to face with greater or lesser fortune.