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| 1. | D. Nee No
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| 2. | Think Tank
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| 3. | Cafe Toronto
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| 4. | Oberschöneweide
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| 5. | New No-Ness
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| 6. | High Lam Earth
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| 7. | Farbiges Lied
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| 8. | Fourteen Days
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| 9. | N.B. Eleven
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| 10. | Basement Research
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Jazz / Modern Creative, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Gebhard Ullmann - Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Drew Gress Double Bass
Ellery Eskelin Sax (Tenor)
Phil Haynes Drums
This set features European saxophonist and clarinetist Gebhard Ullmann with downtown New York stalwarts Ellery Eskelin on saxophones, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Phil Haynes. The disc is aptly named in that it comes across as a dead cross between Ullmann's trademark complex and methodological approach for scoring around periods of improvisation, and a looser garage or basement date where four cats are throwing ideas around to vamp on. Ullmann is a formalist as a composer; his tonal architectures offer no seams or edges, yet they are restless and daring. On the opener, "D. Nee," the two saxophonists trade lines about half a beat behind one another, forking out a melodic framework without ever entering into a melody. The variations in pitch and tonality then provide a gateway for the rhythm section to plow out a place for improvisation on a very subtle theme and the horn players follow suit into a restrained but nevertheless labyrinthine tunnel. The mood follows on the brief "Think Tank," where a melody becomes a Moebius strip of actions and responses. The disc's most beautiful track is "Fourteen Days," which comes out of a slow, stumbling Gershwin-ian blues and opens onto a far more vast expanse in the interplay between Ullmann and Eskelin. Eskelin's raw blues wail is a gauntlet to the more restrained and refined Ullmann's Sonny Rollins-esque tone. And while the track is slow-moving and undulating, there is nonetheless hyperactive movement as Gress plots out two- and three-note lines that become chords in shifting time and Haynes dances all around the center of the beat, extrapolating the blues from space itself. This is a remarkable collaboration and one of the highlights in Ullmann's now-worthily storied career as a leader and as a composer. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Gebhard Ullmann
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Nov 02, 1957 in Bad Godesberg, Germany
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Multi-instrumentalist Gebhard Ullmann (born on November 2, 1957) grew up near Bonn, studied medicine and music in Hamburg starting 1976, and moved to Berlin in 1983 to live as a professional musician. One year later, the 27-year-old was leading (and co-leading) his own bands, releasing his first albums in 1985. The next few years saw him working with Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Bley (among many others) as well as touring the Middle East, East Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania and Estonia. In 1990, he began his Ta Lam project, whose second recording brought together musicians from East and West Berlin's jazz and new music scenes; the album was nominated Best Jazz Record of 1994 by the German Schallplattenkritik. A compilation of the two Ta Lam releases (originally released on Germany's 99 Records) was released in 1998 by the Songlines label. Since the mid-90s, Ullmann has split his time between Berlin and New York, played in Gunter Lenz' Springtime, and occasionally collaborated on projects with actor Otto Sander. The end of the '90s found Ullmann playing in the Clarinet Trio, Trad Corrosion (with Phil Haynes and guitarist Andreas Willers, (a longtime collaborator), in Basement Research (his group with Ellery Eskelin (later replaced by Tony Malaby), Drew Gress, and Haynes) and in Conference Call, a cooperative quartet with Michael Jefry Stevens, Joe Fonda and Matt Wilson or Han Bennink on the drums. In 2001, he began working with the NDR Big Band (with Tom Rainey on drums), eventually releasing the Big Band Project in 2004 featuring arrangements of his compositions by Satoko Fujii, Andy Emler and others. While recording and touring with all these various projects, Ullmann still found time to perform with the likes of Hamid Drake, Lee Konitz, Herb Robertson, Bulgarian master Ivo Papasov and Tony Buck (the Necks) among others while touring. 2004 saw still more touring with Conference Call (now with George Schuller on the drums), the Clarinet Trio (augmented by Hans Hassler on accordion), and a new quintet version of Basement Research as well as releases by Conference Call, the aforementioned Big Band Project the third CD of the Clarinet Trio and Desert Songs & Other Landscapes with the Ullmann/Swell 4 featuring Barry Altschul on the drums. 2005 was a landmark year for Gebhard Ullmann, celebrating 20 years since his first release and debuting a new project: Bass X3 with Peter Herbert and Chris Dahlgren on basses and Ullmann on bass flute and bass clarinet.
---Joslyn Layne & Sean Westergaard, All Music Guide |
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