Jazz Articles about Jan Roder

About Jan Roder

Album Review

Originally an outfit exploring perspectives on free jazz from either side of the Berlin Wall, Ruf Der Heimat continues to thrive on Secrets, only its fourth release over the near three decades since its 1992 birth. Leader and reedman Thomas Borgmann remains at the helm beside his longtime accomplice drummer Willi Kellers but, in the meantime, the former East German contingent of saxophonist Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky and bassist Christoph Winckel has departed to be replaced in the current incarnation by ...

Album Review

Keys and Screws: Some More Jazz

Read "Some More Jazz" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
August 2, 2020

In Berlin, in June 2010, a trio calling themselves Boom Box recorded the album Jazz (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) which was released to considerable acclaim; that group comprised Thomas Borgmann on tenor, soprano and sopranino saxophones plus harmonica, Akira Ando on double-bass and Willi Kellers on drums and percussion, each of whom penned two of the album's six tracks. Collaborations between Borgmann and Kellers date back at least as far as 1995, when they recorded the album Erste Heimat (Konnex, 1995) by ...

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Rosen Fur Alle: Live in Zurich

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 13, 2012

Rosen Fur Alle (Rose per tutti) è il nome del trio svizzero-tedesco protagonista di questo Live in Zurich, messaggio beneaugurante, di fraterna distensione quanto mai auspicabile in un clima tutt'altro che sereno. Ma già le prime note alimentano il sospetto che le rose in questione abbiano spine ben acuminate, aculei velenosi conficcati nel molle ventre delle convenzioni e delle certezze musicali. Christoph Gallio lancia dardi di fuoco con il sax contralto esplorando, in un girovagare apparentemente senza meta, ogni possibile ...