Results for "Günter 'Baby' Sommer"

Axel Dörner, Roger Turner, Urs Leimgruber, and Ribo Flesh: Untitled (London Leipzig Luzern)

by Troy Dostert
March 17, 2022

With a lineup comprising some of the leading figures in free improvisation, fans of the genre will surely want to give Untitled (London Leipzig Luzern) a close listen. Trumpeter Axel Dörner, saxophonist Urs Leimgruber and percussionist Roger Turner have made their mark on hundreds of recordings featuring all of the household names: Evan Parker, Sam Rivers, ...

Irene Schweizer / Hamid Drake: Celebration

by Troy Dostert
May 18, 2021

If John Coltrane was the dominant figure behind the rise of Impulse Records in the 1960s, and Wayne Shorter played a similar role for Blue Note in the same decade, one could argue that pianist Irène Schweizer has placed her stamp upon Intakt Records. Certainly the Swiss avant-garde label has embraced that relationship, as aside from ...

EUPHORIUM_freakestra: soundz offfe drzk wähuh

by Mark Corroto
April 13, 2021

The funny thing about DNA is that just when scientists believe it to be the identifiable signature of all living things, along comes CRISPR gene editing. This technology allows an operator to edit the basic genetic material of an organism, much like the music of Oliver Schwerdt's EUPHORIUM_freakestra. We're not talking science fiction here, more like ...

Gunter Baby Sommer

Born: August 25, 1943

One for My Baby and One More for the Bass

Label: Euphorium Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: One for My Baby and One More for the Bass; On the Road Again (Ausflüge zum Interhotel); The Last Song (Air).

Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo: Ancestors

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 3, 2012

The title of this remarkable album says it all. American trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo are two forefathers of modern jazz, innovative musicians who redefined the practices of their instruments and the connections between the Afro-American, African and European jazz legacies-- creative composers and esteemed bandleaders for nearly five decades and ...