Release Date: 08 April 2016
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602547593580
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 08 April 2016
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602547593580
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
Alba is the premiere recording of trumpeter Markus Stockhausen's duo with pianist Florian Weber, a formation in existence for some six years now.
Though very different in their connections to the language of jazz, both musicians share a deep interest in the process of creative expression: of looking inwards and outwards with intensity at things, for echoes, resonances, insights. Initially, the duo experimented with electronic sounds, also to create the "opening sounds" that have attracted Stockhausen since he first played with Rainer Brüninghaus's trio in the early 1980s. But with Weber, the realization soon came that the duo sounded stronger playing acoustically. "Florian has this incredible touch and possibilities to modulate the sound of the piano. There are so many colours available".
Alba is Markus Stockhausen's first ECM recording since Karta was released in 2000. Florian Weber, a German Jazz Critics prize winner who has played with Albert Mangelsdorff, Lee Konitz and many others, makes his ECM debut here.
Tracklisting
Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan & Joao Lobo
Jordina Milla & Barry Guy
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Fred Hersch
John Taylor, Norma Winstone & Kenny Wheeler
John Williamson
Misha Tsiganov
Daniel Herskedal
Matyas Gayer
Neil Cowley Trio
Emmet Cohen
Threeway & John Etheridge
Gary Smulyan & Frank Basile