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William Evans/Donat Fisch/Banz Oester/Jorge Rossy/Andy Scherrer: Schlitten
by Dan McClenaghan
The Swiss CD release, Schlitten, tips a hat to the undersung record producer, Don Schlitten. The quintet doing the hat-tipping is mostly Swiss musicians. Drummer Jorge Rossy, formerly of the Brad Mehldau Trio, is Spanish-born. Schlitten got his start working the music business with several of the small but prestigious record companies--Muse and Prestige, among others--before he created his own label with Xanadu Records. His approach was straightforward--bring the intuitive, top-level musicians into the studio and let them ...
read moreDonat Fisch - Christian Wolfarth: Circle & Line 2
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gli svizzeri Donat Fisch e Chistian Wolfarth sono ormai da diversi anni un elemento centrale di quella nuova avanguardia europea legata al nome della Leo Records. Questo Circle & Line 2 riprende un discorso iniziato insieme dieci anni fa: ora come allora obiettivo è indagare il rapporto tra sassofoni e batteria (Coltrane e Rashed Ali docent, ma anche Anthony Braxton e Max Roach) e tirarne fuori tutta l'energia. Da questa ispirazione nasce la musica del duo, che manifesta una precisa ...
read moreDonat Fisch / Christian Wolfarth: Circle & Line 2
by Karl Ackermann
Drummer Christian Wolfarth and saxophonist Donat Fisch first recorded in this formation more than ten years ago. Circle & Line 2 is the Swiss duo's reunion and an unique free jazz achievement. Saxophone and drum duos rarely become an artist's defining work. It is a difficult format, requiring extraordinary creative effort to maintain variety and interest. When master musicians like Anthony Braxton and Max Roach approached it, the result was an unstructured exchange between very different musical comfort zones. Peter ...
read morePeter Schärli Sextet featuring Glenn Ferris: Hot Peace
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per questa sua nuova incisione il trombettista svizzero Peter Schärli ha scelto di cambiare sound al suo sestetto, sostituendo il corno francese di John Clark con il sassofono tenore di Donat Fisch, un musicista anche lui svizzero con una lunga carriera alle spalle. La musica di Schärli si può considerare senza mezzi termini un manifesto del jazz made in Europe, lirica e swingante, raffinata, a momenti melanconica ma mai retorica o banale, utilizzando a piene mani da avanguardia e mainstream ...
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