Release Date: 22 October 2021
Label: Enja
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 063757968122
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Austrian jazz guitarist Karl Ratzer and American jazz trombonist Ed Neumeister have been playing together for 10 years in various bands of the guitar player and now have also gotten together as a duo. 'Alone Together' is a duo homage to the Great American Songbook of Jazz.
Karl Ratzer's two original compositions ("Sabah El Nur" and "Senor Lopez") fit in harmoniously with the jazz classics "Body and Soul", "I Thought About You" and "Alone Together". All are played with inimitable verve, creativity and with a deep feeling for the songs (lyrics included), even though most of the tracks are instrumental. "I'm Old Fashioned", the only song sung by Karl Ratzer, reminds one of Chet Baker, with whom the guitarist toured.
This duo of superlatives, in the rather rare line-up of guitar and trombone, impressively prove, by its interpretations, that jazz standards are not old-fashioned or out of date, but that their essence includes something eternal, a timelessness, that touches young and old today as it did yesterday. The unmistakable atmosphere of the 1920s and '30s New York awakens to new pulsating life on this album.
Tracklisting
Eva Klesse Quartet
Or Bareket
Johannes Enders
ADHD
Lux Quartet
Franco Ambrosetti
Aki Takase & Daniel Erdmann
Rebecca Trescher
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
