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Norbert Stein

Norbert Stein is a saxophonist and composer and established the Pata Music label to document his work with a variety of ensembles: Pata Messengers; Pata On The Cadillac; Pata, Horns & Drums; Pata Generators; Pata Masters; Pata Orchestra; Pata Horns; Pata Trio and Pata Blue Chip. Beside performing in Europe, he went on numerous concert tours such as to Brazil, Africa, USA, Australia, Singapore and Indonesia. Several musical encounters were realized in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. You will find these international music cooperations documented on various PATA CDs. As a bandleader and composer, Norbert's approach is to create structures or atmospheres in which his colleagues can articulate their own ideas

Norbert Stein: We Are

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2018

Venerable German saxophonist, composer Norbert Stein's various ensemble manifestations draw inspiration from the work of 19th century scientist, Dr. Faustroll who developed the 'pata physics' theory, defined as a science centered on “unreal logic." Here, the artist leads a quartet under the moniker “Pata Messengers," which is a semi-free program framed on linear thematic sequences that ...

We Are

By Norbert Stein

Label: PATA Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Perfume; Gondwana & Pangea; Diatonic Upanishad; El Fado; What We Are; Polarity; Mellstones; Friendship.

Play Rainer Maria Rilke

By Norbert Stein

Label: PATA Music
Released: 2015

Pata On The Cadillac

By Norbert Stein

Label: PATA Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: All Is No Thing; On the Cadillac; Cat Walk; In a Man´s Mind; Drifting; Nondual Action; The Gap; Dinka Mood; See You, Mara; Roter Mund, Verruecktes Fest (Red lips, weird party).

Norbert Stein: Pata On The Cadillac

by Glenn Astarita
April 20, 2013

German tenor saxophonist Norbert Stein is a distinguished composer and leader. He can prompt laughter, despair, and mesmerize the listener via regimented arrangements, sparked by difficult time signatures and multilayered sound mosaics. A self-described patamusician, inferring the Pataphysics movement started in 1948 by French playwright Alfred Jarry, Stein proffers an existential realm of thought, equated to ...

Silent Sitting Bulls

By Norbert Stein

Label: PATA Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Silent Sitting Bulls; Nondual Action; Paradise Lost; This is You; Quantum Mechanics; Schleuderhonig (Strained Honey); Miao & Chiao; Hapana Lakini.

Norbert Stein Pata, Horns & Drums: Silent Sitting Bulls

by Glenn Astarita
November 12, 2010

German saxophonist Norbert Stein's hefty discography surrounds French journalist Alfred Jarry's pseudoscience of pataphysics amid many existential relations of art, life and human imagination. With his various Pata-based ensembles, Stein's music intimates comprehensive manipulations of jazz and world music. Organic, yet equipped with brute force tactics, the saxophonist's compositions boats a native stylistic component, hugely evident ...

WartaJazz.com: An Indonesian Jazz Mission

by Ian Patterson
August 11, 2010

In his book The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth (HarperCollins, 2009), Michael Schuman writes, “In little more than a generation, Asia has emerged from centuries of stagnation to become the rising force of the global economy--a transformation so spectacular that some have called it a miracle." WartaJazz.com founders in 2001, ...

Direct Speech

By Norbert Stein

Label: PATA Music
Released: 2008