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Album

Consequences

Label: WhyPlayJazz
Released: 2019
Track listing: 32 Cents; Consequences (Part 1); Consequences (Part 2); Saturn; Forgiving; Thinking from The Future (Are You Privileged?).

Article: Album Review

Philipp Gropper's Philm: Consequences

Read "Consequences" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
September 15, 2019

According to the press release for this CD, saxophonist and bandleader Philipp Gropper's concerns in this music are the place of the individual in society and the responsibilities Western societies bear in their dealings with the rest of the world. It's not easy to discern all that from listening to the disc but what you can ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Milton Man Gogh, Rachel Musson Curtis Nowosad & More

by Maurice Hogue
June 26, 2019

Trios and quartets dominate this episode: three-quarters of the playlist are from groups of that size. Featured is German saxophonist Philipp Gropper and his quartet Philm with music from his new album Consequences. Another quartet heard for the first time is Ornicar from France, and OGJB is back. Of the threesomes, first timers are Gentiane MG ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzdor Berlin 2019

by Henning Bolte
June 15, 2019

Kulturbrauerei, Kesselhaus Jazzdor Berlin Berlin June 4-7, 2019 Jazzdor Berlin is one of the few truly, consistently and enduring European minded and spirited jazz festival events around—an initiative taken by Phillip Ochem, the artistic leader of the Strasbourg festival Jazzdor, more than a decade ago. Long breath Unlike other ...

Album

Smoke & Mirrors

By Philipp Gropper

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Dove; 02. Rot; 03. Bravo Echo; 04. Two Birds; 05. Passage; 06. Fragments; 07. Stellar; 08. The Stranger; 09. The End. Tutte le composizioni sono di Alex Huber.

Article: Album Review

FUSK: Super Kasper

Read "Super Kasper" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 23, 2013

How does a band introduce freedom to its music? Does the band play free jazz or, to paraphrase saxophonist Joe Lovano, does it play its jazz free? Danish Drummer and leader of the Danish-German quartet FUSK, Kasper Tom Christiansen's, answer to this question is simple: “Who cares?" FUSK defines its own freedom, between contrapuntal springboard melodies, ...

Article: Album Review

Chimaira: Smoke & Mirrors

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2013

L'estrema vivacità della scena impro svizzera ha una realtà discografica relativamente nuova e ad essa principalmente dedicata, ovvero la Wide Ear Records, etichetta che con Smoke & Mirrors giunge alla sua sesta pubblicazione. Chimeira, il nome del giovane quartetto capitanato dal batterista Alex Huber - studi con Lucas Niggli e Pierre Favre e collaborazioni eccellenti alle ...