Michael Wollny Trio: Weltentraum

Pianistyka Jazzowa
premiera polska: 2014-03-07
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Niemcy
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
Wollny‘s new trio recording Weltentraum is a stunning example of contemporary interpretation in the hands of a unique, fluidly virtuoso artist. Wollny, with both elegance and wit, explores the connection between songs that are worlds apart in terms of both centuries and cultures on Weltentraum. But in the pianist’s hands, the combination of interpretations of ‘God is a DJ’ by the riot girl power pop star Pink and the piece ‘Lasse!’ by Guiliaume de Machaut (the French Medieval composer and poet) gets to feel entirely natural.

Michael Wollny, best known as being one third of the thrillingly inventive young contemporary piano trio [em], is a musician who knows no boundaries in his search for new jazz ‘standards’. “Not a jazz standard in the traditional sense,” he points out but, “it also simply describes a song as a starting point that enables the musicians to grow a tune on top of it, a great melody and a few chords. In that respect I consider all of these tunes ‘standards’.”Wollny‘s new trio recording Weltentraum is a stunning example of contemporary interpretation in the hands of a unique, fluidly virtuoso artist. Wollny, with both elegance and wit, explores the connection between songs that are worlds apart in terms of both centuries and cultures on Weltentraum. But in the pianist’s hands, the combination of interpretations of ‘God is a DJ’ by the riot gi...

muzycy:
Michael Wollny / piano & harpsichord on 14
Tim Lefebvre / upright bass
Eric Schaefer / drums

utwory:
1. Nacht ( dp Berg, Alban) 03:31
2. Be Free, A Way ( Coyne, Wayne Michael / Drozd, Steven Gregory / Ivins, Michael Lee / Scurlock, Kliph) 03:46
3. Little Person ( Brion, Jon / Kaufmann, Charlie) 03:40
4. Lasse! ( dp de Mauchaut, Guillaume) 04:32
5. Fragment an sich I ( dp Nietzsche, Friedrich) 01:08
6. In Heaven ( Ivers, Peter / Lynch David) 03:32
7. Rufe in der horchenden Nacht ( Hindemith, Paul) 05:34
8. When The Sleeper Wakes ( Wollny, Michael) 03:57
9. Hochrot ( Rihm, Wolfgang) 03:44
10. Mühlrad ( traditional) 03:48
11. Engel* ( Wollny, Michael ) 04:16
12. Un grand sommeil noir ( Varese, Edgard) 03:46
13. Fragment an sich II ( dp Nietzsche, Friedrich) 03:47
14. God is a DJ ( Jonathan Davis / Mann, Billy / Alecia Moore / Jonathan Davis / Mann, Billy / Alecia Moore) 08:43

wydano: 31.01.2014
nagrano: Recorded by Adrian von Ripka, September 24 & 25, 2013 at Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg
more info: www.actmusic.com
more info2: michaelwollny.com