Jazz Articles about Urs Leimgruber

About Urs Leimgruber

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Urs Leimgruber - Christy Doran - Bobby Burri - Fredy Studer: Om Willisau

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 29, 2010

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 ...

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Urs Leimgruber: Chicago Solo, Albeit, Willisau, Aurona Arona

by Gordon Marshall
June 12, 2010

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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Urs Leimgruber: Lausanne & Love Letters for the President

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
June 6, 2009

Urs Leimgruber; Thomas Lehn. Lausanne For 4 Ears Records 2009 Hans Koch; Urs Leimgruber; Omri Ziegele. Love Letters to the President Intakt Records 2009 It may be grossly reductive to speak about an album in terms of how much audio space its five songs take up individually. And it may be a total coincidence ...

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Urs Leimgruber: Solo, 13 Pieces For Saxophone

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 5, 2008

Nelle note di copertina di Solo, 13 Pieces for Saxophone si sottolinea come la registrazione solitaria di Urs Leimbruger possa essere paragonata all’opera di uno scultore che, partendo dalla materia grezza e informe a disposizione, la modella, la plasma, la seleziona, la riduce fino ad ottenerne il capolavoro finale. Non mettiamo in dubbio il parallelismo citato, azzeccato e pertinente, semmai rimaniamo sconcertati dall’esito finale. L’esplorazione radicale di strumenti, in questo caso il sassofono, è ricerca espressiva da sempre praticata con ...

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Urs Leimgruber: 13 Pieces For Saxophone

Read "13 Pieces For Saxophone" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 9, 2007

Eminent Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber has been a fixture, primarily within European jazz and improvisational dominions. Unlike many other free-wheeling solo saxophone ventures, the artist renders a cumulative discourse of enticing notions on 13 Pieces For Saxophone. He's an intense conversationalist, while frequently concentrating his improvisational output within a given register. Among other notions, this characteristic adds quite a bit of distinction to the sum of the intricately exercised parts, as he aims to excite one's neural network. ...

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Urs Leimgruber: Blue Log: Ten Pieces for Saxophone

Read "Blue Log: Ten Pieces for Saxophone" reviewed by Alexander Vogel

by Alexander Vogel
September 5, 2005

Saxophonist Urs Leimgruber has explored styles of music ranging from contemporary composition to free improvisation. He was a member of the jazz/rock group Om in the late '70s. From there he would expand his aesthetic from jazz to complete free improvisation through associations with Swiss percussionist Fritz Hauser and French bassist Joëlle Leandre. Solo dates for Leimgruber are more or less common at this point, with three such releases prior to Blue Log (which was recorded in 1999 and released ...