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The Edge

Feigenwinter Oester Pfammatter

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Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
UPC: 0725095365024
Catnr: TCB 36502
Release date: 07 February 2020
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TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
UPC
0725095365024
Catalogue number
TCB 36502
Release date
07 February 2020

"... In other words: The three distinguished Swiss jazz luminaries transform old melodies and well-known harmonies into breathtaking and multi-layered jazz music, which gets its appeal not least from the simultaneity of old and new and whose swing flow oscillates between gentle grace and daring speed...  "

Jazz Fun, 16-3-2020
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Not too long ago, the jazz piano trio was more likely to elicit a yawn than a chill from discerning audiences. Despite frequent outstanding solos, for the listener, there was often little sense of real interaction (for the musicians, it may have been different), or it faded into conventionality. In general, excitement and even magical moments were as rare as imitative attempts to approximate role models were common, with the result that the trios seldom made the standards their own. Granted, this portrayal may be an exaggerated, subjective generalization, but the fact remains that the “classic” piano trio had lost its sparkle.

Der Pianist Hans Feigenwinter, der Bassist Bänz Oester und der Schlagzeuger Norbert Pfammatter knüpfen auf magistrale Weise an die Tradition des Improvisierens über Standards Im Pianotrio-Format an und führen diese Tradition auf zugleich ungekünstelte und tiefschürfende Weise fort und erreichen dabei eine exemplarische Balance aus Eleganz und Kühnheit.

Mit anderen Worten: Die drei profilierten Schweizer Jazzkoryphäen verwandeln alte Melodien und bekannte Harmonien in atemberaubende und vielschichtige Jazzmusik, die ihren Reiz nicht zuletzt aus der Gleichzeitigkeit von Alt und Neu erhält und deren Swing-Flow zwischen sanfter Anmut und draufgängerischer Rasanz oszilliert. Dabei verzichten die drei Musiker bewusst auf formale Extravaganzen In Form ausgeklügelter Arrangements, sondern setzen auf Intuition und Spontanität und entpuppen sich als Magier des erfüllten Augenblicks. Oester sagt: «Ich finde es toll, wenn etwas Überraschendes aus der Improvisation heraus passiert. Das interessiert mich mehr, als im voraus irgendetwas auszuhecken.»

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Bänz Oester (double bass)

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... In other words: The three distinguished Swiss jazz luminaries transform old melodies and well-known harmonies into breathtaking and multi-layered jazz music, which gets its appeal not least from the simultaneity of old and new and whose swing flow oscillates between gentle grace and daring speed...  
Jazz Fun, 16-3-2020

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Castelo
Schärli - Moreira - Feigenwinter

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