Jazz Articles about Jürg Frey

About Jürg Frey

Multiple Reviews

Celebrate Another Timbre's two hundred and fiftieth release

by John Eyles
January 4, 2026

The two Another Timbre albums below have been carefully selected from the latest batch of the label's releases, for several reasons. Firstly, the Jürg Frey album Je laisse a la nuit son poids d'ombre ("I leave to the night its weight of shadow" in English) and the Jakob Ullman album Solo I / Solo IVare Another Timbre's two-hundred-and-forty-ninth and two-hundred-and-fiftieth releases respectively, so they mark a landmark for the label. Secondly, the Frey album is his thirteenth for the label, ...

Album Review

Jürg Frey: Circular Music Ext. no. 1 / no. 2 / Ext. no. 2.

Read "Circular Music Ext. no. 1 / no. 2 / Ext. no. 2." reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
September 30, 2023

On May 15th 2023, Swiss clarinetist, composer and Wandelweiser member Jürg Frey reached the age of seventy. From February 14th to 16th 2023, the tracks which comprise this album had been recorded at Rue des Fabriques, Brussels; they are all Frey compositions which were adapted by the eight players performing them. On the album sleeve, no mention is made of Frey's milestone event; however, this album serves well as a (belated) celebration of it. Between 2011 and 2016, Frey composed ...

Album Review

Jürg Frey: Borderland Melodies

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by John Eyles
January 2, 2023

Borderland Melodies is welcome for several reasons. Firstly, it is numbered “at200," indicating it is the landmark two-hundredth album issued by Another Timbre since its debut in the autumn 2007. As the label's hundredth album was released in 2016, it seems its rate of releasing albums is increasing (maybe a side effect of Covid?) Secondly, like five of the label's previous six albums, Borderland Melodies was performed by Apartment House, who were first credited on an Another Timbre album in ...

Multiple Reviews

New releases from Jürg Frey, Clara de Asis and Stefan Thut

by John Eyles
December 7, 2018

If you were told that a record label's latest batch of three albums were by Jürg Frey, Clara de Asis and Stefan Thut, and then asked to identify the label, which one would you be most likely to choose? Many in-the-know music fans might be likely to opt for Another Timbre or maybe Wandelweiser or INSUB, none of which is the correct answer. In fact, albums by those three musicians constitute the second batch of releases from the Elsewhere label, ...

Album Review

Dante Boon / Jürg Frey: Clarinet (& Piano)

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by John Eyles
February 8, 2017

Without doing an actual count of how many Another Timbre releases feature members of the Wandelweiser group, it is safe to say that they crop up regularly on the label both as composers and performers, with such names as Jürg Frey, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Johnny Chang and Eva Maria Houben peppering the label's credits--not just on the monumental 2013 six-disc-set Wandelweiser und so weiter but across the catalogue. So, it comes as no surprise to find Another Timbre entering ...