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Gebhard Ullmann: Oct. 1, '98 - The Clarinet Trio
by Budd Kopman
Saying that Oct. 1, '98 is Moritat (99 Records, 1994) meets Trad Corrosion (Nabel, 1997) would not be too far wrong. Nineteen miniatures are fit into fifty-four minutes like the latter album, but using only pure reed sounds like the former. Mixing pure improvisation, a truly wonderful version of “Tea for Two" and new and old ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Trad Corrosion
by Budd Kopman
With nineteen tracks taking up but forty-eight minutes, the tracks that make up Trad Corrosion place a premium on subtlety, conciseness and low volume. Together with bandmates drummer Phil Haynes, who first appeared with Ullmann on Basement Research (Soul Note,1995) and long-time collaborator guitartist Andreas Willers, multi-instrumentalist Gebhard Ullmann has created a work that looks both ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Basement Research
by Budd Kopman
On Basement Research, Berlin-based Gebhard Ullmann combines his unique brand of composition with the pre-existing American trio of saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Phil Haynes. The recording is remarkable in that there is no sense whatsoever of Ullmann being grafted on to an admittedly close trio. While it is true that Eskelin and ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Moritat
by Budd Kopman
The outstanding Moritat represents the physical embodiment of everything that multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann had learned during the creation of the miraculous Ta Lam (99 Records, 1993). The earlier recording was created using overdubbing and, except for the occasional use of accordionist Hans Hassler, Ullmann's conception was realized by himself alone. Enlisting the talents ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Ta Lam
by Budd Kopman
Tá Lam is one of the highest achievements in composition and recording in the last forty years. Beyond description or label, this music exists out of time, as a monument to the creative impulse in man. Gebhard Ullmann has created a work that is breathtaking in its beauty, and awe-inspiring in its performance. ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Suite Noire
by Budd Kopman
Suite Noire is essentially the last recording of what could be called “early Ullmann," which however, contains some of the seeds that will flower later. Once again partnering with Andreas Willers, multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann has created an atmospheric and, for the most part, dark work that will surely intrigue. One of the seeds ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Per Dee Doo
by Budd Kopman
Musicians are like all of us, in that who they are now is the sum total of their life experience up to that point. For a musician like multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann, who has worked to create his own musical world, the past is still part of him and hence an album like Per-Dee-Doo is the understandable ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Ullmann - Rava - Willers - Lillich - Schauble
by Budd Kopman
On the very fine Ullmann-Rava-Willers-Lillich-Schäuble, reedman Gebhard Ullmann combines his longstanding trio (guitarist Andreas Willers and drummer Nikolas Schäuble) with bassist Martin Lillich and renowned trumpeter Enrico Rava. By the time of this recording, Rava was fifty years old and had been recording for more than twenty years. Despite being a stylistic chameleon, ...
Gebhard Ullmann: No Age
by Budd Kopman
The musical world that Gebhard Ullmann's No Age inhabits is admittedly quite different from Out To Lunch (Nabel, 1985). While the vibe resides distinctly within what would be called “New Age," the music, playing and production are so well done, and with so much extra spice, that it lands outside that genre and is indeed “No ...
Gebhard Ullmann: Out To Lunch
by Budd Kopman
The intense and quite strong Out To Lunch is just about the earliest recording available on which multi-reedman Gebhard Ullmann is the leader, with his discography listing the LP, Playful (Biber, 1985), a duo with guitarist Andreas Willers. That this release almost shares its title with the acclaimed Eric Dolphy album Out To ...
