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Georg Breinschmid at Hong Kong City Hall
by Rob Garratt
Georg Breinschmid & Friends with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall HKS Cool Summer Festival Hong Kong August 18, 2018 Oxymoron, or blasphemy? The very concept of symphonic jazz" might provoke polarizing opinions in the more faithful fan--but few have spliced orchestral traditions with an improvisational approach quite as brazenly as Georg Breinschmid. The Austrian double bassist was once a member of the esteemed Vienna Philharmonic, before quitting ...
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by Vincenzo Roggero
01.Jaco Pastorius -Jaco Pastorius -(Epic -1976). Il debutto da leader, un disco mitico che mi ha influenzato sin dal primo ascolto. Sicuramente uno dei più grandi dischi di tutti i tempi. Un capolavoro eterno e spirituale. 02. Emerson, Lake & Palmer -Welcome Back My Friends -(Manticore -1970) Ho ricominciato a riascoltarlo proprio di recente. Mi piace la complessità di questa musica e la tremenda energia con la quale viene suonata e cantata ed è evidente ...
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by Angelo Leonardi
Georg Breinschmid è uno dei massimi contrabbassisti e compositori austriaci e questo doppio CD è la palpabile raffigurazione della sua tumultuosa vena creativa. Georg si muove con agilità tra musica classica, jazz, musiche popolari e quant'altro, in un caleidoscopio di riferimenti e citazioni che si fondono e sovrappongono. Nato 42 anni fa, dopo aver fatto parte di varie formazioni accademiche (tra cui la Vienna Philharmonic dal 1996 al 1998) Georg ha deciso di dedicarsi al jazz: dal 1999 a al ...
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by Hrayr Attarian
Austrian bassist Georg Breinschmid's Fire is a collection of live and studio recordings, in a variety of genres, all served with a healthy dose of refreshing irreverence and exuberant humor.This in no way means that Breinschmid and his band mates are only about fun and games. On the contrary, their high quality musicianship and immense talents are evident throughout. For example, on Suite 7" Breinschmid plays the complex melody with extreme agility while simultaneously keeping time on his ...
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by Raul d'Gama Rose
The North American cognoscenti are not so hip after all. Not many will have heard of the Vienna Art Orchestra and fewer still will know of its one-time bassist, the classically trained, Georg Breinschmid. Breinschmid is a maddeningly ingenious virtuoso musician, who, picking up where Frank Zappa and Victor Borga left off, is breaking down musical barriers faster than they can be put up and bringing more pure joy to the unexpurgated enjoyment of serious music than many musicians on ...
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by Larry Taylor
A mixture of outrageous humor and subtle beauty make up Fire, from Austrian bassist Georg Breinschmid. Such a conflicting opinion needs explaining. The 14 mostly originals (plus a bonus disc of four additional tracks) combine live and studio recordings using two different groupings. There is Brein's Café--a piano/violin/bass trio; and a duo with trumpeter Thomas Gansch. In some pieces they all get together. There are silly vocals and shameless parodies of polkas and classics--think Shostakovich ...
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by Raul d'Gama Rose
Austrian bassist/composer Georg Breinschmid is a rare phenomenon who continues to amaze, not simply with his outstanding virtuosity, but with his acute sense of American blues and jazz music. If that sounds like an unlikely mouthful, it is, because the facts far outweigh the fantasy. He has sat in with Archie Shepp, the late Charlie Mariano, Kenny Drew Jr., Biréli Lagrène, the Vienna Art Orchestra, and many others, when he turned his back on his regular gig with the Vienna ...
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