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Emanuel Ruffler
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Mr Ruffler has been working in a variety of styles and settings since his arrival in New York from his native Germany. The wider public was first introduced to his musical aesthetics at the 1998 Thelonious Monk Composers Competition - Ruffler's winning composition "Lava" was performed to a full house at the Smithsonian. The music had a uniqueness which the Times dubbed "a sign of the state of jazz". But his compositions found an interest far beyond the Jazz audience: In 2003 Meshell Ndegeocello released "Aquarium" which Ruffler wrote with Sabina Sciubba of the "Brazilian Girls". Just one year earlier his sound design for "Flex City" was placed in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Painting: Gravity
by Alberto Bazzurro
Tedesco trapiantato a New York, di professione pianista, Emanuel Ruffler è il deus ex machina dell'etichetta che pubblica questo breve CD (poco più di venti minuti, non a caso definito EP) in cui trovano posto sei brani di durata a loro volta medio-breve (ma in compenso con titoli quasi sempre chilometrici) che lo vede abbinato al ...
Rocket: Tipp-Topp
by Bruce Lindsay
Rocket--led by writer and keyboardist Emanuel Ruffler--refers to the music on its debut, Tipp-Topp, as Disco Jazz. Lest such a description have too many people running for the hills to escape visions of big hair and bigger flares, it needs stating up front that the epithet fits in a good way. Disco was about having fun, ...
Nightflight
Label: Pursuance Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Cheerful; Nightflight; Experience; Fourth Ward; Something for my Wedding; A la Joe; Cold/Warm; Inflections; Rocket; Pretty; The Metropolis.
Emanuel Ruffler: Nightflight
by Bruce Lindsay
Emanuel Ruffler keeps extremely talented company on Nightflight, the first album as leader for this German-born pianist who is now based in New York. The 11 self-penned tunes are characterized by an apparent simplicity and a propulsive rhythm, creating an immediately appealing recording. Despite his role as leader and composer Ruffler is a ...
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