Jazz Articles about Adam Pultz Melbye

Adam Pultz Melbye: Gullet

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 30, 2014

The title of the first solo album of prolific Danish double bassist Adam Pultz Melbye is inspired by a quote from Samuel Beckett novel Watt (published in 1953). Metaphorically, Melbye follows Beckett's words, determined to liberate himself from a symbolic deep-toned sonic gullet filled with known articulations, a reinvent and explore new dimensions, colors and sounds in the infinite vocabulary of his trusty instruments. Melbye, now resides in Berlin and is one of the busiest musicians ...