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276: ESKELIN – WEBER – GRIENER. Sensations of Tone

Intakt Recording #276/ 2017

Ellery Eskelin: Tenor Saxophone
Christian Weber: Bass
Michael Griener: Drums

Recorded february 15, 2016, by Jon Rosenberg at systems two studios, Brooklyn, NY.

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The trio with ellery eskelin, Christian Weber and Michael griener presents an extraordinary album: on Sensations Of Tone the new York Saxophoneophonist, the Berlin drummer and the swiss bassist play free Music as well as traditional Jazz. "We dug more deeply into our improvisations and looked directly at this shared affinity for early jazz", ellery eskelin writes in the liner notes. the eskelin-Weber-griener trio does not fuse the individual ways of playing, it alternates and contrasts. each of the beautiful standards «shreveport stomp», «China Boy», «Moten swing» and «ain’t Misbehavin’» is followed by free improvisations. ellery eskelin writes: "separating these performances (rather than mixing them) exposed the ways in which the same «tones» can elicit very different «sensations». and depending upon your own subjective views, despite the obvious differences, there may well be unexpected similarities to be found." a wonderful music, beyond categories.

Album Credits

Cover art: Herbert Alexander Basilewski
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Photo: Marcel Meier
Liner notes: Ellery Eskelin

Recorded february 15, 2016, by Jon Rosenberg at systems two studios, Brooklyn, nY. Mixed and mastered by Willy Strehler and Christian Weber at studio Klangdach, guntershausen. Executive production by Anja Illmaier.

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Michael J. Agovino
The Village Voice

The tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin has a sound and approach all his own, sinewy and off-kilter. He’s been part of New York’s downtown scene but is steeped in history, too. (He’s done the Great American Songbook, for instance.) Call him an abstract traditionalist. Along with Christian Weber on bass and Michael Griener on drums, the trio goes from early standards like Jelly Roll Morton’s “Shreveport Stomp” to its own group improvisations. Disorientating, and totally delightful.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2017-the-year-in-jazz/

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Luc Bouquet
Impro Jazz Magazine

A huit reprises, alternativement, une improvisation collective et un thème old jazz: voilà ce que nous proposent Ellery Eskelin, Christian Weber et Michael Griener.

Les improvisations enchantent. On retrouve l'audace serpentine et les denses tourbillons et les pieds solidement plantés dans la terre! du ténor. Le plus souvent, tous trois, partent d'une apparente désarticulation pour, agilement, organiser une forme. Une forme nommée jazz.

Les thèmes séduisent. Une caisse claire old style, un ténor tout en souplesse et velouté ou l'art de la nonchalance dérivant en des phrasés âpres et rêches: une vieille histoire ternaire toujours vivante à défaut de vive.

Reste à écrire quelques lignes sur Christian Weber et Michael Griener: le premier dévore les interstices (improvisations), crée de juteux tempos (thèmes); quant au second, il n'est aucunement avare de roulements et rebonds (improvisations) ou de balais soyeux (thèmes). L'on ne peut souhaiter ici que longue et heureuse vie au trio Eskelin-Weber-Griener. Au moins autant qu'au regretté trio Eslekin-Parkins-Black.

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