Uli Johannes Kieckbusch, Gunter Baby Sommer
Release Date: 10 November 2023
Label: Neos
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260063123245
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
The two musicians, jazzers, composers, and moreover genuine improvisers Uli Johannes Kieckbusch and Gunter Baby Sommer have already released their much-acclaimed duo CD Schwebende Riefen, bebende Tiefen (2017) and then with NEOS - expanding to a quartet with various flutes and a viola - Quietude Fragile (2021) with the Baby Sommer Kiecktett. Now, as a duo (piano and percussion), they return to their origins, to their nucleus, immediate and authentic in their seemingly endless creativity, just in time for Gunter Baby Sommer's 80th birthday.
The compositions are mainly by Uli Johannes Kieckbusch. The exceptions are Pendulo and Still ruht der See, which Kieckbusch and Sommer composed together.
Sommer is one of the most important representatives of contemporary European jazz, one who has developed an unmistakable musical language with a highly individualised set of percussion instruments.
Composer and pianist Kieckbusch grew up with classical music, whereby the music of Johannes Brahms, to whom he is related, always held a special place in his family. For himself, however, he discovered the blues early on and gradually expanded his spectrum.
Tracklisting
Claude Lenners, Noise Watchers Unlimited Ensemble
Munchener Kammerorchester, Ilan Volkov, Jessica Niles, Tobias Vogelmann
Tobias Eduard Schick
Cuarteto Ornati
Festival Strings Lucerne Chamber Players
Klara Tomljanovic, Alberto Carretero, Marton Illes, Vito Zuraj, Steingrimur Rohloff, Nikolaus Brass, Detlef Heusinger
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Carl Rosman, Patrick Stadler
lovemusic & Santiago Diez Fischer
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
