Home » Jazz Musicians » Jurgen Friedrich
Jurgen Friedrich
Jurgen Friedrich: Monosuite
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Jurgen Friedrich doesn't play a single note of music on Monosuite, but his personality and cognitive bearing are omnipresent. While Friedrich's piano was at the heart of the sound on the trio-based Pollock, he removes his hands from the ivories on this follow-up date, allowing a cadre of string players and a highly flexible foursome to express his well-crafted thoughts in their own way. This 49-minute opus is as much about sought-after equilibrium as anything else. ...
read moreJurgen Friedrich: Pollock
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Jürgen Friedrich, bassist John Hebert and drummer Tony Moreno banded together in 1998 when Friedrich, who was on a visit to the United States, met the other two at a jam session. The empathy between them was instant and they decided to team up. They hit the road, creating an ambience that was snug in the comfort zone of chamber music.
Friedrich is a judicious and resolute pianist, choosing his notes with deliberation. He is in no hurry to ...
read moreJuergen Friedrich: Pollock
by Dan McClenaghan
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), the Abstract Expressionist American painter best known for his drip paintings" produced from 1947 to 1950, loved and was inspired by jazz. The innovative music of that time in the genre was Bird (Charlie Parker), Dizzy Gillespie and the burgeoning bebop sounds that Pollack would listen to while he created. Jazz has loved and drawn inspiration from Pollack, too--in part, perhaps, due to the improvisational aspect of the painter's best known art. The original album cover of ...
read moreJurgen Friedrich: Seismo
by Nic Jones
A sense of restraint pervades this whole programme of piano trio music, and it works to make it less compelling, especially when the underlying approach is oblique both harmonically and rhythmically.
On one level the trio seems to be trying to make maximum use of minimum material. While this approach can result in music that demands attention, the results here just seem to hang in the air. On Coincidence," the three musicians seem intent on avoiding emphatic interplay and the ...
read moreIthamara Koorax: Love Dance: The Ballad Album
by Chris M. Slawecki
Ithamara Koorax has released several albums in Brazil and Japan, but Love Dance is only the second US album for this star from Rio, the follow-up to her debut Serenade in Blue.
With her unmistakable voice, Koorax sings English, Portuguese, and Spanish love songs composed by such masters as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, Marcos Valle and Ivan Lins, plus songs by Claus Ogerman and Jurgen Friedrich (in German). Her voice manifests this diversity to its advantage: ...
read moreJürgen Friedrich Releases "Monosuite" for String Orchestra and Improvisers on Pirouet Records
Source:
Two for the Show Media
Jürgen Friedrich composer, conductor Hayden Chisholm alto saxophone Achim Kaufmann pianoJohn Hébert bassJohn Hollenbeck drums Sequenza String Orchestra 1st violin: Gerdur Gunnarsdóttir, Constanze Sannemüller, Elias Schödel, Adrian Bleyer, Kira Kohlmann, Christine Rox 2nd violin: Irmgard Zavelberg, Mirjam Steymans, Alwin Moser, Naomi Binder, Adi Czeige viola: Marla Hansen, Pauline Moser, Yodfat Miron, Andrea Sanz-Vela, Valentin Alexandru cello: Ulrike Zavelberg, Teemu Myöhänen, Nil Kocamangil, Marnix Möhringbass: Axel Ruge, Matan Gurevitz Strings never sounded like this before. Cologne jazz musician Jürgen Friedrich brings them to dancing. Or ...
read more