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Simon Nabatov Quartet featuring Ralph Alessi: Lovely Music

by John Sharpe
An alternative title for Lovely Music by Russian-born, German -based pianist Simon Nabatov might be Greatest Hits. He has selected some of his most tuneful works from across his career for interpretation by a quintet which includes American trumpeter Ralph Alessi in a one-off performance. Completing the lineup of this 2021 live date from Nabatov's home from home, Loft in Cologne, are more regular colleagues saxophonist Sebastian Gille, bassist David Helm and drummer Leif Berger. However, it presents not as ...
Continue ReadingFlorian Ross: Architexture

by Jerome Wilson
Writing about music has been compared to dancing about architecture, in that it is a supposedly useless task. Writing music about architecture is a worthwhile proposition, though, as shown by this release from German pianist Florian Ross, composing music for his quartet and the Event Wind Ensemble which is inspired by famous architects and buildings he has encountered in his travels. This music plays like an updating of the Third Stream genre, combining classical formality and jazz fluidity. ...
Continue ReadingFlorian Ross: Reason & Temptation

by Jack Bowers
Midsummer 2019 was quite a busy time for Florian Ross. Apparently, the German-born pianist recorded the quartet date Reason & Temptation from June 29-July 2, then returned the following day to the same studio in Koln and added a wind ensemble to record Architexture for another label (Naxos). Reason & Temptation was self-produced on Ross's own label, Toy Piano Records. In each case the core group consists of the pianist's working quartetsaxophonist Sebastian Gille, bassist David Helm, ...
Continue ReadingSebastian Gille: Anthem

by Dan Bilawsky
Given that a picture can be worth a thousand words and that saxophonist Sebastian Gille only uses one to define this album, the album artwork may be the better descriptor here. The icy peaks that adorn the cover of Anthem can be seen as a visual representation of the wide open vistas that Gille explores and creates. He paints slow snow drifts and rides through exhilarating gusts of wind balancing beauty and danger, a sense of uncertainty holding them both ...
Continue ReadingSebastian Gille: Anthem

by Dan McClenaghan
The most famous and venerable German record label is ECM Records, Manfred Eicher's brainchild, founded in 1969 and still going strong with now more than twelve hundred recordings in its catalog. But there is a German upstart, Pirouet Records, which has been in the business of offering up its own musical vision since the early 2000s, with a multinational stable of artists including American pianists Marc Copland, Bill Carrothers and Kevin Hays, British-born saxophonist Loren Stillman and Belgian bassist Nicolas ...
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La danza di Akil (East market)
From: EnigmaticaBy Sebastian Gille
Il lago di Ikahti
From: EnigmaticaBy Sebastian Gille
Cinque cilindri
From: EnigmaticaBy Sebastian Gille
Twist (rubato)
From: EnigmaticaBy Sebastian Gille
Twist
From: EnigmaticaBy Sebastian Gille
Piccole orme
From: EnigmaticaBy Sebastian Gille
Oltremodo
From: EnigmaticaBy Sebastian Gille
Cinque cilindri
From: EnigmaticaBy Sebastian Gille