Ben Schwendener/Uwe Steinmetz

Ben Schwendener/Uwe Steinmetz: Apfelschaun

by John Kelman
November 27, 2004

Rife with memorable melodies, Apfelschaun documents various live performances by Boston-based pianist Ben Schwendener and German-born saxophonist Uwe Steinmetz from '01 and '02 in a variety of contexts, from solo to duet to quartet to quintet. In context of Schwendener's other recordings, most notably the fusion-inflected Road Trips and the freely improvised Living Geometry II , Apfelschaun demonstrates his breadth of scope, this time on an album that is heavily informed by ethnic folk music, albeit in the context of ...