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Album Review

Registrato a Brooklyn e prodotto da Dave Douglas, quest'album della batterista tedesca Mareike Wiening, alla testa del suo quintetto, dà conto dei suoi sei anni di esperienza newyorchese, durante i quali ha avuto modo di perfezionare la propria esperienza jazzistica e di lavorare con musicisti del calibro di John Zorn, Ben Wendel, Stefon Harris e lo stesso Douglas, presente qui come espite in tre brani. La formazione, piuttosto classica, interpreta sette composizioni della Wiening e una originale rielaborazione ...

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Mareike Wiening: Reveal

by Mark Sullivan
January 12, 2024

Mareike Wiening is a German drummer/composer who began her career in New York, and now divides her time between there and Köln, Germany. On her third album, she continues making music with her New York-based working band, an increasingly rare situation in contemporary jazz. It provides her an opportunity for more compositional experimentation with each release. “Time for Priorities" begins abstractly, a duet between drums and guitarist Alex Goodman's spacey electronics, before introducing the swinging theme and the rest of ...

Album Review

Mareike Wiening: Future Memories

Read "Future Memories" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 19, 2021

It is interesting that in today's creative music world, a jazz drummer cannot just be a jazz drummer. There are so many great drummers that they have to also be composers, band leaders, and sometimes van drivers. A short list includes Tyshawn Sorey, Allison Miller, Ches Smith, and Terri Lyne Carrington. Add to that list Mareike Wiening, the German-born artist with (now) deep New York roots. Her release Metropolis Paradise (Greenleaf Music, 2019) brought her music critical attention and acclaim, ...