Jazz Articles about Michael Jaeger

About Michael Jaeger

Album Review

Michael Jaeger Kerouac: Dance Around in Your Bones

Read "Dance Around in Your Bones" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
November 2, 2013

Zurich-based saxophonist Michael Jaeger and his band Kerouac have been a well-known entity in the European progressive jazz community amid alternating personnel since 2006. Jaeger is a musical voyager and covers a broad sound-design spectrum, steeped in prismatic colorations and the axiomatic peaks and valleys. Rather uncannily, the musicians impart numerous variables as they shape a mark of authenticity, when considering a group-centric concentration. Jaeger mixes it up via whispery clarinet sequences atop popping bass ostinatos on “Dance ...

Album Review

Michael Jäger Kerouac: Meets Greg Osby & Philipp Schaufelberger

Read "Meets Greg Osby & Philipp Schaufelberger" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 17, 2011

La formula della band “locale" che collabora con il musicista famoso e straniero non è nuova ma i risultati non sono sempre interessanti. In questo caso, il ruolo della band “locale" viene svolto dal gruppo svizzero Kerouac, guidato dal sassofonista Michael Jäger, mentre a Greg Osby spetta quello di ospite di lusso. A ibridare la formula ci pensa un altro ospite, ma “locale," il chitarrista svizzero Philipp Schaufelberger.Fortunatamente, il risultato è da raccomandare senza remore confermando, se ancora ...

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Album Review

Michael Jaeger: Kerouac

by Nic Jones
July 8, 2010

The quartet of Jaeger, pianist Vincent Membrez, bassist Luca Sisera and drummer Norbert Pfammatter has been together for five years and the depth of playing experience that implies is evident in this release. The balance of the new and the familiar is rarely struck with such precision as this ensemble manages, but the presence of guests Greg Osby and Philipp Schaufelberger adds another dimension to the creative tension. Both men prove themselves adept at blending with the quartet's working methods ...