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Christopher Kunz, Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht, Disperation And Focus – First Visit

Read "Die Unwucht, Disperation And Focus – First Visit" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Inciso alla fine di maggio del 2023, questo album vede uno di fronte all'altro due dei più avventurosi improvvisatori della scena tedesca contemporanea. Lo provano gli otto brani qui presenti, liberi (e nessuno oltre i dieci minuti, quindi anche contenuti) quanto attenti alla forma globale e all'equilibrio di ciascuno nel totale. Ciò ci dice che, in realtà, tutta questa “avventurosità" si traduce in qualcosa che mantiene i piedi saldamente a terra, senza salti nel vuoto o “arroganze" varie, pur praticando ...

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Album Review

Christopher Kunz, Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht

Read "Die Unwucht" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro

Facendo largo uso delle pratiche più “contemporanee" (jazzisticamente parlando ma non solo) dei rispettivi strumenti, e nella loro reciprocità (quindi da un'ottica abbastanza lontana da quelli che sono un po' i sacri testi, i modelli di riferimento, in materia, vale a dire gli storici duetti coltraniani con Elvin Jones e Rashied Ali), peraltro senza spendersi in eccessive intemperanze o, per contro, ritrarsi in estenuanti evanescenze (rare le eccezioni), i due baldi giovanotti tedeschi protagonisti di questo album ci propongono quaranta ...

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Album Review

Christopher Kunz & Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht

Read "Die Unwucht" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Saxophone and drums duos--usually that means tenor saxophone and drums--got serious in the mid 1960s, when pianist McCoy Tyner and bassist Jimmy Garrison would lay out during performances by John Coltrane's classic quartet to allow Coltrane and drummer Elvin Jones to pursue their mutual shamanistic muse together. One such occasion is preserved on One Down, One Up, Live At The Half Note (Impulse, 2005), recorded in 1965. On the title track, first Tyner, then Garrison drop out, leaving ...

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