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Florian Ross: Front Room Songs
by Dan Bilawsky
The use of overdubs isn't really the norm on jazz recordings, but it is an accepted practice. Very often it can simply involve a horn player adding a line here or there, providing some finishing touches to music that was mostly-done already, but every now and then it goes well beyond that point. Piano legend Bill Evans, for example, charted a new course when he delivered Conversations With Myself (Verve, 1963), which featured Evans atop Evans on record.
Continue ReadingFlorian Ross Big Company: Ties & Loose Ends
by Jack Bowers
The late pitcher Satchel Paige once offered this sound advice: “Never look over your shoulder; someone may be gaining on you." Nowadays, those who seem to be gaining the most ground when it comes to big-band jazz are Europeans and Asians who've been listening closely to and learning from their peers in the States and using that knowledge to build a better mouse trap, so to speak. Composer / arranger Florian Ross, based in Cologne, Germany, had been writing and ...
Continue ReadingThe Little and Big of Florian Ross
by C. Michael Bailey
German pianist/composer Florian Ross has been making provocative music since his early Naxos Jazz recordings. He is a rolling stone, moving from one format to the next, always bringing something new and leaving something newer. Florian Ross Elektrio Wheels and Wires Fuhrwerk- Musik 2013 The organ trio, specifically that of the organ-guitar-drums variety, has proven to be as durable an instrument format as it has a fertile ground from the whole ...
Continue ReadingAnette von Eichel: Golightly
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un viaggio in treno imminente, la necessità di una buona lettura per non annoiarsi, l'acquisto nella libreria della stazione di “Colazione da Tiffany" di Truman Capote ed ecco servito Golightly. Sì, perché il CD in questione non è altro che il ritratto musicale di Miss Holly Golightly, l'eroina impersonata da Audrey Hepburn che tanto ha ammaliato Annette von Eichel da spingerla a dedicarle un album, convocando una manciata di musicisti di ottimo livello, su tutti il batterista John Hollenbeck. Equamente ...
Continue ReadingFlorian Ross: Mechanism
by C. Michael Bailey
Florian Ross has been a contributing member of the international jazz community since 1998, when he released three provocative discs on the Naxos Jazz label (Seasons and Places (1998), Suite for Soprano Sax and String Orchestra (1999), and Lilacs and Laughter (2000)) that showed the German pianist/composer as a composer of great depth and breadth. A decade and several recordings later, Ross has made his way to perhaps his best-suited label, Pirouet. Mechanism is a solo piano recording that occasionally ...
Continue ReadingFlorian Ross Trio: Big Fish & Small Pond
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
In the year before I loaded Florian Ross's Big Fish & Small Pond onto the iPod, I listened to a lot of other new piano trio releases. Even one led by another guy called Florian: Florian Weber's Minsarah ( Justin Time, 2006). Most of these records were somewhere between good and very good, but few were truly great. Indeed, the best was Enrico Pieranunzi's Untold Story (EGEA, 2006), which was already a thirteen-year-old recording. Brad Mehldau's House on Hill (Nonesuch, ...
Continue ReadingFlorian Ross Quintet: Home & Some Other Place
by Jerry D'Souza
If one overwhelming quality leaps out of the music of Florian Ross, it is his skill as a composer. He has a finely attuned sense for narrative and his pieces are rich in harmonic detail. Most of his music flows with a calm resplendence, yet he can pump up the pulse and get into a harder groove without losing the emotive essence.
Ross also has a gift for orchestrated arrangements. His ensemble lines are lush and seamless, filled ...
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