Jazz Articles about Stephan Kurmann

Yuri Storione: Where Do We Start

by Tyran Grillo
December 23, 2019

Yuri Storione follows 2017's formidable trio outing, Schönbrunn, with this set of gorgeous new originals. In collaboration with Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat, Swiss bassist Stephan Kurmann, and Hungarian drummer Marton Juhasz, the Basel-based pianist guides his new quartet, convened in 2018, for this live recording debut. As a leap of intuition not only in technical but also compositional terms, Where Do We Start is both a deepening and a widening of the bandleader's sonic footprint. Where throughout this ...