Jazz Articles about Gebhard Ullmann

Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research: Don't Touch My Music Vol. 2

by Jerry D'Souza
August 6, 2009

When Gebhard Ullmann took his Basement Research into Krakow 's Alchemia Club to celebrate his 50th birthday, he recorded two sets of music. The first was released as Don't Touch My Music, Vol. 1. Like the first, this second set is unedited and unchanged, and shows just how intuitive and empathic the band is.

Ullmann's compositions encapsulate several idioms. He goes from blues to a march, transforming into free idioms without a twinge. And just as his writing is earthy, ...

Basement Research: Don't Touch My Music

by Jerry D'Souza
January 16, 2009

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Gebhard Ullmann lays down the ground rules without ado with the slam-bang title Don't Touch My Music. There should be no qualms about that, Ullmann's music is made to draw rapt attention. The closer one listens, the more there is to discover.

Ullmann brings in an evolving, and revolving, cast of characters to give voice to his music. Each ensemble brings certain attributes and direction to his compositions that absorb various strains to enrich them. Basement Research ...

Conference Call: Poetry In Motion

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 17, 2008

Il tessuto connettivo che riveste Conference Call è di quelli forti ed elastici allo stesso tempo, grazie ad una fitta trama di relazioni che caratterizzano i percorsi dei quattro musicisti coinvolti. Il formidabile sassofonista e clarinettista tedesco Gebhard Ullmann vanta un sodalizio decennale con il pianista Michael Jefry Stevens, a sua volta co-leader con il bassista Joe Fonda di un ensemble stabile che da più di vent’anni esplora con successo i territori del freebop. Il batterista George Schuller è l’ultimo ...

Gebhard Ullmann: New Basement Research

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 20, 2008

L’intreccio creativo di voci jazzistiche americane ed europee, non certo inedito nella storia di questa musica, risplende con forza in questo lavoro di Gebhard Ullmann. Il polistrumentista tedesco afferma una personalità di alto livello, in occasione dei suoi 50 anni, che gli suggeriscono di rivisitare parte del suo repertorio abituale con un nuovo organico. Il clarinetto basso e il sax tenore del leader incrociano il soprano e il baritono di Julian Arguelles (inglese emerso a suo tempo nei Loose Tubes); ...

Gebhard Ullmann: New Basement Research; Die Blaue Nixe & Leo Records 25th Anniversary: Loft, Koln

by Robert Iannapollo
June 8, 2008

Reedman Gebhard Ullmann has always been a bit apart. Never an inside player yet rarely as extreme as some of his German contemporaries, he has doggedly pursued his own muse and released a stream of excellent discs since the '80s. Ullmann divides his time between Berlin and New York and has several groups based in each city, all of who seem to offer the saxophonist a wide range of options for his many-faceted improvising ideas.

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Gebhard Ullmann At 50: A Career Retrospective

by Budd Kopman
November 23, 2007

Gebhard Ullmann (born in Bad Godesberg, Germany, November 2, 1957) is a composer and improvisor unique in the jazz world today. Playing a multitude of reeds and flutes, and maintaining an international presence with both European and American groups, Ullmann has created a body of work that is much more than a chronological series of recordings documenting his musical thinking. Each of his various projects addresses different musical issues and hence has its own distinctive ...

Gebhard Ullmann: New Basement Research

by Budd Kopman
November 8, 2007

The year 2007 marks multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann's fiftieth birthday, and as part of the celebration, he has released New Basement Research, a blistering and brutally propulsive record with a completely new group, and the fourth for this project. The Basement Research project was started in 1995 with the pre-existing American trio comprised of saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Phil Haynes. Two recordings were made by this group, Basement Research (Soul Note, 1995) and Kreuzberg ...