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Michael Jaeger
Die Arbeitsweise der Band geht von der Improvisation zur Komposition und wieder zurźck zur Improvisation: Freie Improvisation-Sessions dienen als Forschungslabor und Hörerweiterungen. Jaeger entwickelt Sound, Struktur, Harmonik, Rhythmik und Melodik einer Komposition aus zuvor improvisiertem Material. Im Konzert wird dann innerhalb der Komposition improvisiert, als gäbe es nur das Spiel und keine ihm vorausgegangene Komposition. Neben Noten liest das Ensemble auch von kleinen Uhren dirigierte Zeitpartituren von Jaeger, welche das Geschehen organisieren. Die Musik von Kerouac mit den Gästen Greg Osby und Philipp Schaufelberger beinhaltet gebundene und ungebundene Musik, gleichwertig nebeneinander und ineinander verknüpft.
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Michael Jaeger Kerouac: Dance Around in Your Bones
by Glenn Astarita
Zurich-based saxophonist Michael Jaeger and his band Kerouac have been a well-known entity in the European progressive jazz community amid alternating personnel since 2006. Jaeger is a musical voyager and covers a broad sound-design spectrum, steeped in prismatic colorations and the axiomatic peaks and valleys. Rather uncannily, the musicians impart numerous variables as they shape a mark of authenticity, when considering a group-centric concentration. Jaeger mixes it up via whispery clarinet sequences atop popping bass ostinatos on Dance ...
read moreMichael Jäger Kerouac: Meets Greg Osby & Philipp Schaufelberger
by AAJ Italy Staff
La formula della band locale" che collabora con il musicista famoso e straniero non è nuova ma i risultati non sono sempre interessanti. In questo caso, il ruolo della band locale" viene svolto dal gruppo svizzero Kerouac, guidato dal sassofonista Michael Jäger, mentre a Greg Osby spetta quello di ospite di lusso. A ibridare la formula ci pensa un altro ospite, ma locale," il chitarrista svizzero Philipp Schaufelberger.Fortunatamente, il risultato è da raccomandare senza remore confermando, se ancora ...
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by Nic Jones
The quartet of Jaeger, pianist Vincent Membrez, bassist Luca Sisera and drummer Norbert Pfammatter has been together for five years and the depth of playing experience that implies is evident in this release. The balance of the new and the familiar is rarely struck with such precision as this ensemble manages, but the presence of guests Greg Osby and Philipp Schaufelberger adds another dimension to the creative tension. Both men prove themselves adept at blending with the quartet's working methods ...
read moreMichael Jaeger Kerouac - Outdoors (Intakt)
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Master of a Small House
Michael Jaeger's ensemble makes explicit reference to one of the founding fathers of Beat poetry, but the Swiss tenorist is also careful to note that his actual inspiration source rests in the Dizzy Gillespie's composition of the same title. Now five years on since their inception the foursome is well-oiled improvisation machine. Pianist Vincent Membrez, bassist Luca Sisera and drummer Norbert Pfammatter don't answer well to the summary of sidemen. Jaeger's name adorns the case spine, but the session is ...
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"There was a band language of noticeable consistence heard, which were built during collective stretches with a feeling of We, rather than I. (...) You realize with this ensemble, that behind this freely developing music stands a very strong structural consciousness." Christoph Merki, Tagesanzeiger