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OM: It's About Time
by Ian Patterson
In 1982, after five albums in ten years, Swiss free-jazz quartet OM called it a day—its four members, Christy Doran, Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri going their separate ways. A supposed one-off reunion in 2007 to open an exhibition on the youth movement of the 1960s and 1970s led to a successful series of festivals appearances on home turf. Those concerts resulted in the live album Willisau (Intakt Records, 2010), a return to OM's improvisational heartland, and signalled ...
Continue ReadingChristy Doran: In The Corner Of The Eye
by Glenn Astarita
Celebrated Irish guitarist Christy Doran's penchant to keep reinventing his musical self is quite evident due to the disparate bands and solo projects he's undertaken for several decades. Whether imparting a jazz fusion spin on Jimi Hendrix with the band Call Me Helium Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (Double Moon, 2005) or experimental jazz and improvisational efforts with keyboardist John Wolf Brennan and other notables, Doran's hefty discography yields a kaleidoscopic perspective. The program on In The ...
Continue ReadingUrs Leimgruber - Alex Huber: Lightnings
by Glenn Astarita
Wide Ear Records is a nascent Swiss experimental jazz label, co- founded by drummer Alex Huber who performs here, in a duo setting with his fellow countryman and eminent improviser, saxophonist Urs Leimgruber. Hence, the musicians generate some cerebral merry-making on this set via the saxophonist's gyrating and stunted battle cries and the customary call and response processes, integrated with Huber's highly musical approach. The 4 tracks spawn a hodgepodge of torrential downpours and quieter parts, constructed on menacing flows ...
Continue ReadingUrs Leimgruber / Roger Turner: The Pancake Tour
by John Eyles
The Pancake Tour finds Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber and British drummer Roger Turner together as a twosome (sometimes referred to as The Pancake Duo), recorded in concert at The Loft in Cologne in October 2011. The sax-drums duo is a varied and demanding format which exposes each player to equal scrutiny, allowing no hiding place or time out. Instead, each member has to be full-on constantly, giving and receiving, and listening and responding; if either of them is not, it ...
Continue ReadingUrs Leimgruber: Chicago Solo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non è la prima volta che il sassofonista svizzero Urs Leimgruber si avvicina all'esibizione in completa solitudine (si pensi a 13 Pieces for Saxophone uscito sempre per la Leo Records nel 2007). Questa sessione, incisa in studio a Chicago, lo vede impegnato ai sax soprano e tenore in lunghe escursioni utilizzando tecniche estese, come la respirazione circolare. Non c'è alcuna intenzione di distruggere le caratteristiche degli strumenti usati, tuttavia la vicinanza di stile con Evan Parker o John Butcher è ...
Continue ReadingUrs Leimgruber - Christy Doran - Bobby Burri - Fredy Studer: Om Willisau
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il festival jazz di Willisau di fine agosto 2008 è stata l'occasione per la riunificazione del gruppo Om che negli anni settanta aveva evidenziato al mondo intero la fertile attività di alcuni gruppi radicali nella patria del cioccolato e del formaggio coi buchi. La radio svizzera non si è lasciata sfuggire una ghiotta occasione come questa e il tutto è stato fedelmente registrato per essere poi pubblicato dalla Intakt Records. Sul palco il quartetto sembra essere ancora più radicale e ...
Continue ReadingUrs Leimgruber: Chicago Solo, Albeit, Willisau, Aurona Arona
by Gordon Marshall
Urs LeimgruberChicago SoloLeo2010 Urs LeimgruberAlbeitJazzwerkstatt2010 OMWillisauIntakt2010 EmberAurona AronaCreative Sources2010 Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber has a watchmaker's sense of time. His works create the sense of listening to a watch's inner workings up close, with his collaborators coming in ...
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