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Gebhard Ullmann / Chris Dahlgren / Jay Rosen: Cut It Out
by Dan McClenaghan
German multi-woodwind player Gebhard Ullmann found the cover art for Cut It Out in the hallway of his Berlin apartment building, and he and bandmates “found the music"--these spontaneous compositions--in bassist Chris Dahlgren's Brooklyn living room, where they recorded the disc, creating a set of sounds that have an spontaneous feeling all the way through.
BassX3
Label: Drimala Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Nummer Sieben, Gross und Klein, Small Birds/DreiHolz, BassX3, Blue Mint, Red, Yeah Mbira, Slowliness In Green And Yellow
Gebhard Ullmann: The Big Band Project
by Rex Butters
Brooklyn/Berlin resident Gebhard Ullmann takes time off from his seven working ensembles to run six of his compositions through the venerable NDR Big Band. With heavyweights like Satoko Fujii, Andy Emler, Chris Dahlgren, and Guenter Lenz handling the arranging chores, the band roils and boils, simmers and sighs. The Fujii-arranged “Think Tank" churns in ...
Gebhard Ullmann: BassX3
by Dan McClenaghan
BassX3, reedman Gebhard Ullmann's exploration of soundscapes dwelling in the lower end of the sonic spectrum, huffs in on on a low tone, a bass flute rumination joined shortly by the elastic sound of a bowed bass.Two basses--Chris Dahlgren (Jazz Mandolin Project), and Peter Herbert, internationally known for his film and dance scores--join Ullmann, ...
Desert Songs & Other Landscapes
Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Box Set/ Flutist With Hat And Shoe/ Seven 9-8/ Camel's Gait/Desert Sands Part 1/ Under The Other/ Desert
Gebhard Ullman-Steve Swell Quartet: Desert Songs & Other Landscapes
by Derek Taylor
Economical improv groups are CIMP's stock and trade. Rare are the sessions that employ ensembles larger than quartet size. For this reason critics often complain of a relative homogeneity amongst the label's roster of projects. The responsibility falls on tapped bands to say something fresh within instrumental formats that quite often have reams of precedence. Producer ...
Variations on a Master Plan
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Quiet (10:45) / Circle (8:57) / Variations on a Theme by Claude Debussy (13:51) / Parlami Di Me
(2:54) / Improvisation No. 2 (7:18) / Song for My Mother (3:30).
Gebhard Ullmann: Variations on a Master Plan
by Kurt Gottschalk
It’s probably obvious to say that German saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann’s master plan is to keep jazz alive, but it’s hard not to draw such a conclusion from his new quartet record. The title seems an obvious take on the classic Pharoah Sanders piece and the music within follows Ullmann’s history of working the tradition like a ...
