Jazz Articles about Joachim Gies

Aa. Vv.: Leo Records 25th Anniversary, Loft Koln

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 1, 2007

Fedele alla linea, si potrebbe dire, e per festeggiare i 25 anni della sua creatura Leo Feigin evita colpi di grancassa e le produzioni in pompa magna. Riunisce una manciata di suoi musicisti al The Loft di Colonia, location assai cara al produttore di origine russa, e in tre serate offre testimonianza della storia, della filosofia, della vitalità della sua etichetta. Lo fa alla sua maniera, non con una parata di tutte stelle ma riservando il primo dei due CD ...

Joachim Gies: Whispering Blue

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

The use of the saxophone to generate sounds outside the limits of its “design" has been a longstanding tradition in jazz, from the honks and squeals of the music's earliest practitioners, through the wrenching vocalizations of players like Ayler and Coltrane, and continuing on today through the latest generation of sonic explorers, including the wildly inventive player Mats Gustafsson. Joachim Gies, one of today's most creative exponents of “other" saxophone music, takes a different tack on Whispering Blue. Gies' vision ...

Joachim Gies: Different Distances

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1999

Joachim Gies plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, as well as bass clarinet. This is a disc of 23 brief duos (the longest is four-and-a-half minutes; there's also a solo Gies piece that's just over seven minutes) played by Gies with, variously, mezzo-soprano Ute Döring; Alex Nowitz (male voice, live electronics); Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky (alto sax); Thomas Wiedermann (trombone); and Thomas Böhm-Christi (cello).

Gies has a chameleon's ability on his various reeds. On “Arizona" with the wailing (and electronically transmuting) Nowitz ...