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Ullmann / Malaby / Gress / Haynes
Basement Research Live in Münster
Catalog No: MW 773-02 (2006)
Tracks:
1. Blaues Lied [11:57]
2. Basement Research [02:19]
3. Kreuzberg Park East [11:00]
4. Farbiges Lied [05:46]
5. T.T. Walk [07:45]
6. New No Ness [14:02]
Line-up:
Gebhard Ullmann - tenor & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet
Tony Malaby - tenor saxophone
Drew Gress - double bass
Phil Haynes - drums
Recorded:
live at Münster Kreativhaus, October 3, 12999
About:
if it's possible to have a super-group in a musical form as marginalized as contemporary, left-field jazz, then conference call is a pretty good contender ... the quartet sounds like a band with one foot firmly in the paris/chicago axis of the late-60s BYG avantgarde sound and another keeping up to date with the tuneful, exploratory freedom of wayne shorter's recent celebrated quartet. ask yourself this: is there anything about that equation that doesn't sound like a good thing ?
daniel spicer in one final note about "live at the outpost performance space"(6/'06)
few improvising artists can boast the stream of creative ideas that seem to bubble from gebhard ullmann. ullmann focuses on the fundamentals of improvised jazz: melody, sound, syncopation and technical excellence, but what makes his writing and playing so successful is his seemingly never-ending innovative nature: without grasping for neoteric straws, ullmann's performances are grounded in the past but plunge forward deliberately toward modernity. ullmann leaves the strong mark of a disciplined sculptor of sound, who speaks his own compelling language. (steven loewy in cadence magazine, March 2005)
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