GASSER 3 - Espresso Galattico
Leo Records CD LR 845
Jurg Gasser, tenor saxophone; Peter K Frey, bass; Dieter Ulrich, drums, bugle
Recorded 22/23 August 2015
The three musicians have been dedicated to avant-garde jazz, or more generally perhaps to improvised music, for many years, and Gasser formed the trio in 2009. Recording is infrequent as each of the artists is heavily committed in a number of different projects. They say:
“We are three musicians who have been engaged in free improvised music for a long time. Several years ago we joined the trio and are still working on the refinement of our common musical language in consistently freer improvisation. This work continues to give us great pleasure."
Gasser has heard and doubtless recalls Evan Parker’s playing with the German free jazz scene and Peter Brötzmann. Frey is more familiar to us perhaps as one half of the Kontrabassduo. He is absolutely on top of his instrument as well as behind it and implores it to follow his every intention in producing audio solutions. Ulrich has discovered his own personal solution to the question of self-expression, but in no way allows this to subsume the conventions of the ordinary. Each of the three draws his music from an inner experience, unsullied by pre-conceived notions of what might be allowed.
This music will engage you beyond what you might imagine. It is complex and celebratory; it is fundamentally free improvisation.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
Leo Records CD LR 845
Jurg Gasser, tenor saxophone; Peter K Frey, bass; Dieter Ulrich, drums, bugle
Recorded 22/23 August 2015
The three musicians have been dedicated to avant-garde jazz, or more generally perhaps to improvised music, for many years, and Gasser formed the trio in 2009. Recording is infrequent as each of the artists is heavily committed in a number of different projects. They say:
“We are three musicians who have been engaged in free improvised music for a long time. Several years ago we joined the trio and are still working on the refinement of our common musical language in consistently freer improvisation. This work continues to give us great pleasure."
Gasser has heard and doubtless recalls Evan Parker’s playing with the German free jazz scene and Peter Brötzmann. Frey is more familiar to us perhaps as one half of the Kontrabassduo. He is absolutely on top of his instrument as well as behind it and implores it to follow his every intention in producing audio solutions. Ulrich has discovered his own personal solution to the question of self-expression, but in no way allows this to subsume the conventions of the ordinary. Each of the three draws his music from an inner experience, unsullied by pre-conceived notions of what might be allowed.
This music will engage you beyond what you might imagine. It is complex and celebratory; it is fundamentally free improvisation.
Reviewed by Ken Cheetham
