Wiesendanger / Weber / Ulrich

Wiesendanger / Weber / Ulrich: We Concentrate

by Ken Kase
May 19, 2006

Recorded live in Zurich on November 26, 2004, We Concentrate is a powerful statement by the Swiss piano trio of Chris Wiesendanger, Christian Weber and Dieter Ulrich. Casual jazz fans lulled into complacency by the familiarity of tunes by Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Victor Young are in for a bit of a shock, as the head-solos-head formula is only loosely applied here. The trio has taken a great many liberties with traditional song forms, deconstructing them to their bare ...