Results for "Muriel Grossmann"

Nick Fraser Quintet, Paula Shocron & Jörg Schippa

by Maurice Hogue
October 6, 2021

Toronto's noted drummer, Nick Fraser, kindly shared a preview track from If There Were No Opposites back in June as part of the 1200th show, and now the full album is ready to go, released by the much-respected Hat Hut label. Nick's got his usual crew of Tony Malaby, Rob Clutton and Andrew Downing, and the ...

Danilo Gallo, Ernesto Jodos, East Axis & Garfo

by Maurice Hogue
August 11, 2021

This show is loaded with new releases. My favourite record label, Clean Feed, continually provides excellent music and I dip into the latest batch (read our reviews), sampling new albums by Italian bassist Danilo Gallo & Dry Dark Tears, Lisbon's Garfo and edgy trumpeter Luis Vicente & his trio. ESP-Disk's place in the history of jazz ...

Muriel Grossmann: Quiet Earth

by Mark Corroto
August 9, 2021

Anyone familiar with Tibetan Buddhism will know that once their spiritual leader or Dalai Lama dies, officials set off in search of his reincarnation, interviewing and examining potential postulants. Listening to Quiet Earth by Austrian saxophonist Muriel Grossmann one cannot help but ask if she might be the reincarnation or avatar of the late John Coltrane. ...

Elin Forkelid, Susie Ibarra, Benoît Delbecq, Chris Speed and More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 13, 2021

Navasha Daya's tribute to Gil Scott Heron, several projects that explore the trail Coltrane blazed, artists for whom rhythm is melody and melody is rhythm, musicians who plunge themselves into the inner space and the outer space, debut CDs, reissues, label showcase albums... There's something for everyone in this hour of new and upcoming jazz.

Reverence

By Muriel Grossmann

Label: RR Gems
Released: 2020
Track listing: Okan Ti Aye; Union; Water Bowl; Sundown; Chase; Tribu; Afrika Mahala; Morning.

Quiet Earth

By Muriel Grossmann

Label: RR Gems/Dreamlandrecords
Released: 2020
Track listing: Wien; African Call; Peaceful River; Quiet Earth.

Muriel Grossmann: Reverence

by Chris May
June 16, 2020

Since the late 1990s, the Spanish island of Ibiza has been synonymous with two things: electronic dance music and 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine aka MDMA or ecstasy. Austrian-born saxophonist Muriel Grossmann has lived on Ibiza since 2004 and her intense wall-of-sound style of astral jazz suggests she is familiar with both those pillars of Ibizan nightlife. ...

Muriel Grossmann

Born: September 20

Austrian alto, soprano, tenor saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann was born in Paris and grew up in Vienna, where she initiated classical studies of flute at the age of five until twenty-one, when she switched to alto and soprano saxophone and started playing and touring with various rhythm & blues, funk, world music and jazz groups and artists such as Hans Tschiritsch, Shani Ben Canar, Christoph Kurzmann, Geri Schuller, Pete Hoven, Robert Rehak, The Original Brothers.

In 2002 she moved to Barcelona where she started to lead her own bands for recordings and concerts. Muriel Grossmann is resident in Ibiza since 2004, which marks a very fruitful recording and performing period.

Golden Rule

By Muriel Grossmann

Label: Dreamlandrecords
Released: 2019
Track listing: Golden Rule 1# Core 2# Promise 3# Direction 4# Traneing In 5# Trane 6# Light 7#

Mick Rossi, Le Rex, & Emile Parisien

by Maurice Hogue
May 9, 2019

Creativity must be recognized, particularly the kind endures. The AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) continues this day, just as it did over 50 years ago, inspiring, pushing forward, and setting the standard for creative music. Only the players change. The premier performing group of the AACM today is the AACM Great Black Music ...