Jazz Articles about Gebhard Ullmann

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gebhard Ullmann: The Big Band Project

by Rex Butters
August 8, 2005

Brooklyn/Berlin resident Gebhard Ullmann takes time off from his seven working ensembles to run six of his compositions through the venerable NDR Big Band. With heavyweights like Satoko Fujii, Andy Emler, Chris Dahlgren, and Guenter Lenz handling the arranging chores, the band roils and boils, simmers and sighs.

The Fujii-arranged “Think Tank" churns in orchestral slabs between soft flute interludes. The orchestra diffuses and Ullmann wails through on soprano. Dahlgren arranges “Tá Lam" as a driving ensemble piece. ...

Gebhard Ullmann: BassX3

by Dan McClenaghan
February 26, 2005

BassX3, reedman Gebhard Ullmann's exploration of soundscapes dwelling in the lower end of the sonic spectrum, huffs in on on a low tone, a bass flute rumination joined shortly by the elastic sound of a bowed bass.Two basses--Chris Dahlgren (Jazz Mandolin Project), and Peter Herbert, internationally known for his film and dance scores--join Ullmann, who plays bass clarinet and bass flute here. The mood throughout has a brooding and introspective feel--darkly passionate, hypnotic at times, and always deeply ...

Gebhard Ullman-Steve Swell Quartet: Desert Songs & Other Landscapes

by Derek Taylor
November 24, 2004

Economical improv groups are CIMP's stock and trade. Rare are the sessions that employ ensembles larger than quartet size. For this reason critics often complain of a relative homogeneity amongst the label's roster of projects. The responsibility falls on tapped bands to say something fresh within instrumental formats that quite often have reams of precedence. Producer Bob Rusch has an uncanny knack of picking groups able to rise to the challenge.

The jointly officiated Ullman-Swell unit certainly contains ...