No doubt: German piano player and composer Wolfgang Dauner is one of the most important figures of the jazz scene in Germany. He left his footprints by - more than oftenly - breaking new ground. From the early 1960 years on he worked exclusively for the legendary German label SABA and its successor MPS, and recorded many albums in their legendary studios in Villingen/ Black Forest. Finally he returned to where it all began. Dauner went back to the MPS studios and recorded "Tribute To The Past". So Dauner writes his musical autobiography, his pen being the very same Bösendorfer Grand Piano, that he and so many other famous artists used back in the MPS days. And, one can hear this clearly on this album, all three (maestro Dauner, the MPS studio, and the Bösendorfer) are still in very good shape!