Jazz Articles about Florian Stoffner

About Florian Stoffner

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John Butcher / Florian Stoffner / Chris Corsano: The Glass Changes Shape

Read "The Glass Changes Shape" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
March 17, 2025

British saxophonist John Butcher cultivates a network of like-minded collaborators around the world, with whom he seeks to connect on an occasional to regular basis. Although only formed in May 2022, the trio with American drummer Chris Corsano and Swiss guitarist Florian Stoffner must be among the most potent combinations. Affirmation comes from the nine tracks included on The Glass Changes Shape that were culled from a live performance at Loft in Cologne in September 2023. Each man ...

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Florian Stoffner, John Butcher, Chris Corsano: Braids

Read "Braids" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
March 29, 2024

Una free impro abbastanza classica (tutto può diventare un classico, anche l'irriverenza), piuttosto ben calibrata e mai sopra le righe, è quanto ci giunge da questi cinquanta minuti scarsi di musica certamente non accomodante (ma del resto, come si sarà capito, nemmeno mai urtante), incisi nel maggio 2022 in quel di Bienna, città svizzera sul lago omonimo, fra Berna e Basilea. Ne sono artefici tre musicisti piuttosto rodati in materia, in special modo il sassofonista inglese John Butcher, che viaggia ...

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Florian Stoffner, John Butcher, Chris Corsano.: Braids

by John Eyles
November 22, 2023

The trio of Swiss guitarist Florian Stoffer, British saxophonist John Butcher and US drummer Chris Corsano recorded their first album Braids live at Le Singe, in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, on May 22nd 2022. Stoffer had a previous release on ezz-thetics, Tetratne, a duo with drummer Paul Lovens, released in 2020. Between 1999 and 2009, Butcher was a member of the quartet Polwechsel, appearing on three of the group's albums on hatOLOGY or hat[now]ART; he was also a soloist on Christopher Fox's ...

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Paul Lovens | Florian Stoffner: Tetratne

Read "Tetratne" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 20, 2020

German drummer Paul Lovens' distinguished career within European free jazz / improvising circles is well-documented. Generally speaking, he's performed with a who's who of futurists and others who tend to stretch the limits of standard musical regimens. On this outing he partners with Swiss experimental guitarist Florian Stoffner for an interconnection of spurious ideas in front of an audience in Ljubljana at the 2019 “Sound Disobedience Festival." Thanks to a crystalline soundstage the slightest details are heard amid ...

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Florian Stoffner, Paul Lovens, Rudi Mahall: Mein Freund der Baum

Read "Mein Freund der Baum" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 2, 2018

Svizzero, classe 1975, Florian Stoffner è il primo firmatario del disco di cui ci occupiamo, che lo vede interagire col cinquantunenne clarinettista tedesco Rudi Mahall e con un'autentica icona della free improvisation europea, Paul Lovens, in un lavoro che appunto l'aleatorietà più esplicita ed eloquente pratica senza mezzi termini. Con tutto il corollario di rito (perché in realtà, ormai da tempo, l'improvvisazione senza rete interessa anche musicisti lessicalmente più prudenti): note false, intemperanze, grugniti e ruvidità varie, secondo un copione ...