Release Date: 04 October 2010
Label: Material
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9005321100317
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 04 October 2010
Label: Material
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9005321100317
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
The Austrian jazz musician and composer Christian Muthspiel presents the traditions of yodelling in a completely new context. Freed from tourist stereotypes, Muthspiel has arranged these traditional folk tunes for a contemporary jazz line-up featuring leading musicians from both sides of the Atlantic.
Christian Muthspiel's Yodel Group began as a commissioned project for the Saalfelden 2009 Jazz Festival, where this music was heard for the first time. The musical components were so fine and the sound of the players so exciting that it was immediately clear this would not be a one-time-only event. After all, this was a venture involving two experienced free form-anarchists of the New York scene, two luminaries of the Franco-Swiss avantgarde and two Austrian freethinkers, in a joint effort to transcend the current pan-Atlantic stylistic clichés.
Personnel: Christian Muthspiel (trombone, piano, voice, vocoder, loops), Gerald Preinfalk (clarinet, bassclarinet, soprano/altosaxophone), Matthieu Michel (trumpet, flugelhorn), Franck Tortiller (vibraphone), Brad Jones (electric bass), Bobby Previte (drums)
Tracklisting
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Wolfgang Muthspiel 4tet
Enders Room
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Johannes Berauer
Grigoryan Brothers
Benedikt Jahnel Trio
Christian Muthspiel's Yodel Group
Christian Muthspiel's Yodel Group