Release Date: 08 December 2023
Label: Blaser Music
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0730706004261
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Critically acclaimed trombonist Samuel Blaser and legendary drummer Pierre Favre play a keen-eared and considered duo set that marries free jazz improvisation with swing. Save for two standards, Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo and Thelonious Monk's Round Midnight, the pieces on this extraordinary album of edgy, yet focused, free jazz improvisations, are credited jointly to Blaser and Favre.
Coming more than a decade after their Vol A Voile(Intakt) album, this music was released to coincide with Favre's 85th birthday. Its title alludes to Favre's frequent quip that both he and Blaser were born in the same part of Switzerland at different times, and generations apart.
Pierre Favre: drums
Samuel Blaser: trombone
Recorded in Luzern, Switzerland, October 2018, and mastered in New York 2019
Limited edition of 500 copies.
Tracklisting
Helveticus (Daniel Humair, Samuel Blaser & Heiri Kanzig)
Pierre Favre & Samuel Blaser
Ensemble Songs & Sarah Maria Sun
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
