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Omri Ziegele Noisy Minority featuring Ray Anderson: Wrong is Right
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Swiss trio Noisy Minority led by alto saxophonist-poet Omri Ziegele mocks the notion that you can make a clear-cut line between what is right and wrong in jazz or any improvised music. Their aesthetic goes deeper than the often-repeated inverse by pianist Kenny Barron: “if you don't make mistakes, you don't play jazz." Instead, Noisy ...
Yves Theiler Trio: Dance In A Triangle
by Mark Corroto
Although a piano trio has a leader, the better ones behave as an equilateral triangle. That is, they “go Dutch." In the case of the Yves Theiler Trio, we could say the music on Dance In A Triangle “goes Swiss." The pianist, Yves Theiler, composed all the music here, but it is improbable that ...
Continuum
by John Kelman
Few musicians have continued to hone a concept as singularly unique and instantly recognizable, irrespective of context, as that being explored by Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch since he first formed Mobile with Don Li, Kaspar Rast and Mats Eser in 1997. First emerging on record in 2001 with Ritual Groove Music (Self-Released, reissued Ronin Rhythm, 2006), ...
Irene Schweizer / Han Bennink: Welcome Back
by John Sharpe
For such an assuredly rhythmic player Swiss pianist Irene Schweizer shows an unexpected affinity to drummers, who feature disproportionately as partners in her discography. But even so Welcome Back constitutes only the second entry to pair Schweizer with maverick Dutch drummer Han Bennink, following their eponymous debut (Intakt, 1996), which was itself preceded by years of ...
Peter A. Schmid: Chicago Conversations
by Alberto Bazzurro
Ventiquattro brani per lo più molto brevi compongono questo sfiziosissimo nuovo lavoro del cinquantaseienne polistrumentista zurighese Peter A. Schmid, che è andato a inciderlo (in un unico giorno, il 31 agosto 2014) allo Strobe Recording di Chicago, dividendosi fra duetti (quindici), una sua specialità (fra i suoi numerosi partner nel corso degli anni ricordiamo almeno Evan ...
Le Rex: Wild Man
by Glenn Astarita
The band moniker Le Rex is culled from an abandoned theater, discovered on the island of Corsica, but there's nothing bleak or dusky about this quintet's musicality. After a successful tour of the US, they parked in Chicago to record this album, which is the musicians' third effort and first for Cuneiform Records. Essentially, these young ...
Ulrich Gumpert Quartett: A New One
by Glenn Astarita
Swiss pianist Ulrich Gumpert's clearly illustrated Thelonious Monk influences underscore many of the rhythmic implementations amid a diverse bag of tricks on this exceptional studio date. It's a comprehensive program where each track imparts a distinct story via an aggregate of alluring themes. The quartet initiates the festivities with an uplifting jazz waltz on ...
Heinz Holliger: Machaut-Transkriptionen
by Hrayr Attarian
Over a period spanning eight years (2001-2009) Swiss oboist and composer Heinz Holliger has radically reinterpreted the works of medieval composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut. Holliger calls the resulting disc, Machaut-Transkriptionen “transcriptions" but in fact it is much more than that. By changing rhythmic structures here, time signatures there, even improvising on de Machaut's themes ...
Le Pot: Hera
by Vincenzo Roggero
Secondo capitolo di una trilogia iniziata con She e che si concluderà con l'episodio intitolato Zede, Hera ci presenta un quartetto svizzero molto interessante per visione musicale e approccio interpretativo. Registrata presso la Burgkirche St. Romanus nel villaggio svizzero di Raron, la musica interagisce con la severa architettura della cinquecentesca chiesa. Ne assorbe semplicità, purezza di ...
Saxophonist Mark Hauser Releases “it’s All About The Journey” on October 14th
The Mark Hauser Quartet’s new CD, It’s All About the Journey, will be released on October 14th. Mark Hauser (alto saxophone) presents eight of his own compositions and gives a high-energy performance with band members Marvin Trummer on piano, Dominik Schürmann on bass and Elmar Frey on percussion. The album will be played at various concerts ...
