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Release Date: 20 February 2026
Label: Enja
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 767522986921
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Release Date: 20 February 2026
Label: Enja
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 767522986914
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
"Questions open up a space that can be interpreted," is how German saxophonist Johannes Enders describes the starting point of 'Standard Questions', "something that has probably fascinated me subconsciously for a long time." So he searched the American Songbook for pieces whose titles formulate questions, selected seven of them, and added two of his own compositions in a fitting manner. He then recorded the collection with his equally new and magnificent acoustic quartet: the Austrian pianist Oliver Kent, the Berlin-based American bassist Josh Ginsburg, and the American Gene Calderazzo on drums, who moved to England in the mid-1990s.
Johannes Enders shapes the selected standards into a statement of balanced beauty. Gentle, raw, and with sustained energy, he offers his answers to the questions of our time, reflecting improvisationally on the old and ever-new questions, and in doing so, defending not only his understanding of jazz as a universal language, but also the unifying and identity-forming power of music in general. Like many of his predecessors, he believes in its positive force, which, beyond the prevailing criteria of neoliberalism, speaks of something greater in ever-new variations.
Description
"Questions open up a space that can be interpreted," is how German saxophonist Johannes Enders describes the starting point of 'Standard Questions', "something that has probably fascinated me subconsciously for a long time." So he searched the American Songbook for pieces whose titles formulate questions, selected seven of them, and added two of his own compositions in a fitting manner. He then recorded the collection with his equally new and magnificent acoustic quartet: the Austrian pianist Oliver Kent, the Berlin-based American bassist Josh Ginsburg, and the American Gene Calderazzo on drums, who moved to England in the mid-1990s.
Johannes Enders shapes the selected standards into a statement of balanced beauty. Gentle, raw, and with sustained energy, he offers his answers to the questions of our time, reflecting improvisationally on the old and ever-new questions, and in doing so, defending not only his understanding of jazz as a universal language, but also the unifying and identity-forming power of music in general. Like many of his predecessors, he believes in its positive force, which, beyond the prevailing criteria of neoliberalism, speaks of something greater in ever-new variations.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Johannes Enders
JISR
Rebecca Trescher
Amir Bresler & Nitai Hershkovits
Jens Duppe
Petros Klampanis
Makiko Hirabayashi
Eva Klesse Quartet
Johannes Enders
Johannes Enders & Micha Acher
Johannes Enders
Johannes Enders
Johannes Enders
