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Michael Wollny

Michael Wollny

Weltentraum live - CD

  • Format: CD
  • Cat No.: ACT 9579-2
  • Barcode: 614427957924
  • German Release: 31/10/2014
  • Genre: Piano Jazz

"Wollny is a highly sensitive, deep thinking, light-handed improvising musician whose ideas – that so suddenly burst forth from his mind – can be tough to get one's chops around. Where does he get them from? […] Wollny is a genius, and a likeable one at that." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dr. Wolfgang Sandner)

 
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“Michael Wollny overwhelms the audience in the Muffathalle. […] The amazing thing about it is that he did so with pure jazz. […] It is quite possible that this Jazznights tour may mark the birth of a new star. And it wouldn't be the wrong guy by any means, but someone who is building his own new house using the bricks of music history – less in the tradition of jazz or classical musicians; more in the style of creative geniuses like Mozart, Ellington, Lennon." (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Oliver Hochkeppel)"Wollny is a highly sensitive, deep thinking, light-handed improvising musician whose ideas – that so suddenly burst forth from his mind – can be tough to get one's chops around. Where does he get them from? […] Wollny is a genius, and a likeable one at that." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dr. Wolfgang Sandner)These are ju...

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Michael Wollny / piano
Tim Lefebvre / upright bass
Eric Schaefer / drums


Recording Information

produced by siggi loch & michael wollny

recorded march 24, 2014 at kammermusiksaal, berlin philharmonie
recorded, mixed and mastered by klaus scheuermann

photos by jörg steinmetz


Tracks

  1. 1 Nacht ( Berg, Alban) 05:00
  2. 2 Phlegma Phighter ( Schaefer, Eric) 11:14
  3. 3 Rufe in der horchenden Nacht ( Hindemith, Paul) 06:57
  4. 4 When The Sleeper Wakes ( Wollny, Michael) 06:30
  5. 5 Lasse! ( de Machaut, Guillaume) 06:56
  6. 6 Engel ( Wollny, Michael) 06:19
  7. 7 Gorilla Biscuits ( Schaefer, Eric) 07:04
  8. 8 Little Person ( Brion, Jon | Kaufmann, Charlie) 04:57

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