Jazz Articles about Grosse Abfahrt

About Grosse Abfahrt

Album Review

Grosse Abfahrt is a sizeable ensemble, here consisting of eight players. Leader Tom Djll is aware that a grouping of this size presents issues to be addressed. As he outlines in his sleeve notes, one of these is “the conflict between fluency and comfort among improvising compadres. Fluency between players' languages and approaches is desirable, of course; however, it can lead to complacency."Having eloquently outlined those issues in print, the ensemble's music presents solutions just as eloquent. The ...

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Grosse Abfahrt: Vanity

Read "Vanity" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 21, 2010

What happens when serious musicians get together to examine the character and proclivities of a society, as broadcast via the identification plates on the cars of the people that drive them? The music that describes their very public personalities makes for an ironic, slightly mocking, yet always hilarious look into the “stamped-metal bumper culture expressions" of this society. Grosse Abfahrt, an eight-piece chamber ensemble, takes this society to task on Vanity, an interpretation of this bumper-culture with a ten-piece suite. ...