Jazz Articles about Gebhard Ullmann

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Gebhard Ullmann: Out To Lunch

by Budd Kopman
September 19, 2007

The intense and quite strong Out To Lunch is just about the earliest recording available on which multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann is the leader, with his discography listing the LP, Playful (Biber, 1985), a duo with guitarist Andreas Willers. That this release almost shares its title with the acclaimed Eric Dolphy album Out To Lunch! (Blue Note, 1964) is an indication of Ullmann's fondness for the album in particular and Dolphy in general. Musically the relationship to the ...

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Gebhard Ullmann: Die Blaue Nixe

by Budd Kopman
February 26, 2007

Die Blaue Nixe is one of those recordings that suspends time, almost daring you to enter its sound world. If you have the courage, or at least the desire, to have intimate contact with in-the-moment music, you'll be amply rewarded by the time spent with these three superb improvisers. Gebhard Ullmann, who plays many reeds, has been concentrating on bass clarinet, tenor and soprano saxophone. For this recording, he assembled a trio featuring pianist Art Lande and ...

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Gebhard Ullmann / Chris Dahlgren / Art Lande: Die Blaue Nixe

by Dan McClenaghan
February 5, 2007

This sounds like music that hangs out in a dark corner of the room, gently beckoning the listener into a different dimension.Multi-reedist Gebhard Ullmann, with over forty CD releases as a leader/co-leader to his name, records with a variety of different ensembles, large and small, but he seems to have a special affinity for the trio format. Ullmann's 2005 Bass x 3 set featured two basses behind some of his deep-toned reeds--bass clarinet and bass flute--with a feeling ...

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Gebhard Ullmann / Chris Dahlgren / Art Lande: Die Blaue Nixe

by Mark Corroto
January 22, 2007

How do you listen to well-recorded music? Is it in your car? Perhaps while you are washing the dishes, working, reading today's newspaper. Very few of us put a CD in the player, close our eyes and listen. That's exactly why popular music has that beat, the boom-boom-boom of our hectic lives. Like fast food, cell phones and freeways, we surround ourselves with music in step with the frenetic nature of our current condition.

Enter Die Blaue Nixe ...

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Gebhard Ullmann - Chris Dahlgren - Jay Rosen: Cut It Out

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 20, 2006

Dalla Soul Note di Flavio Bonandrini alla Leo Records di Leo Feigin il sassofonista e clarinettista berlinese Gebhard Ullmann ha scritto pagine importanti, con collaboratori provenienti dalle due sponde dell'Atlantico, per il jazz made in Europe. La collaborazione con la ritmica di Chris Dahlgren e Jay Rosen focalizza la musica su situazioni molto libere dal punto di vista strutturale e tuttavia con una padronanza assoluta sullo svolgimento complessivo dei brani, divisi fra lirismi inconsueti al flauto basso e situazioni più ...

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Gebhard Ullmann: Essencia

by Budd Kopman
August 14, 2006

Gebhard Ullmann, a musical gypsy, has been active in both Berlin and New York for twenty years now. His musical life has been documented on a series of projects, recorded both live and in the studio, where he has played virtually all of the reeds and quite a few flutes. Essencia is another entry in his growing discography that represents his always expanding musical universe. After meeting pianist Jens Thomas in Berlin, Ullmann formed a duo with ...

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Gebhard Ullmann / Chris Dahlgren / Jay Rosen: Cut It Out

by Dan McClenaghan
June 5, 2006

German multi-woodwind player Gebhard Ullmann found the cover art for Cut It Out in the hallway of his Berlin apartment building, and he and bandmates “found the music"--these spontaneous compositions--in bassist Chris Dahlgren's Brooklyn living room, where they recorded the disc, creating a set of sounds that have an spontaneous feeling all the way through.Ullmann presents his music in various ensemble setups, from big band to mid-sized groups to trios. Two of the prolific musician's best works come ...