Catalogus

Once Around The Room : A Tribute To Paul Motian (2022)

"The double basses of Larry Grenadier and Thomas Morgan initiate the conversation. Then the scattered insistence of rhythm by drummers Joey Baron and Jorge Rossy enters, pushing Once Around the Room into consciousness with all the anticipation and hushed intent of an orchestra tuning before a performance. Airy clusters of guitar courtesy of Jakob Bro and electric bassist Anders Christensen introduce Joe Lovano's aching call summoning the spirit to make known "As It Should Be," the first of the saxophonist's two deeply realized compositions. It's a protean, trance inducing twelve-tone that swells out into Once Around the Room's larger hypnotic narrative. Acolytes all of the late Paul Motian, Bro, who made his ECM debut on the drummer's Garden of Eden (ECM, 2006) and Lovano, who goes back nearly four decades with Motian's many creative iterations, lead this album a meditative investigation of the collective soul. The common voice we all speak in if only we'd bother to listen to one another." (allaboutjazz)

Dark eyes (2009)

Hey, Why Don't We Play: Mac The Knife Real Slow And In B-Minor (2002)

"A great jazz album, full of varied & committed playing. The 2 tenor sax bandleaders contribute tunes; there are a couple of standards, one free number, one by Martino, a ballad, and a highly unorthodox version of Kurt Weill's evergreeen Mack The Knife - No one really remembers who made the suggestion it may well have been Billy Hart who said, "Hey why don't we play Mack The Knife real slow and in minor"... And that was how the album got its name." (Discovery Records)

Everything Will Be All Right (2002)

Acclaimed yound Danish tenor sax player, Jakob Dinesen (another ex-Berklee student) and the hottest current US guitarist, Kurt Rosenwinkel, join Anders Christensen (double bass) andKresten Osgood (drums) in an energetic and highly varied studio album featuring original pieces and material by Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, & Django Reinhardt.