Jazz Articles about Basement Research

Basement Research: Live In Munster

by Budd Kopman
February 27, 2007

Basement Research is one of Gebhard Ullmann's ongoing projects; its first edition produced an eponymous debut (Soul Note, 1995), where the multi-reedist was joined by Ellery Eskelin's battling tenor saxophone and supported by bassist Drew Gress and drummer Phil Haynes, resulting in music with much raw energy and passion. This same band also recorded Kreuzberg Park East (Soul Note, 1999). As part of his fifty-year birthday celebration, Ullmann has released this live recording from 1999, with Tony ...

Basement Research: Live in Munster

by Jerry D'Souza
January 21, 2007

Basement Research's third CD comes in the wake of Gebhard Ullmann's 50th birthday. The band got started with Ellery Eskelin on tenor saxophone in 1993, before Tony Malaby replaced him in 1999--and thus Malaby appears on this live recording from that year.

Ullmann is a man of many parts. He plays in several bands, all of them heavy hitters in the field of improvisation. What makes them potent is the way they essay improvisation into stimulating processes, constantly shifting and ...