Hans Fahling

Hans Fahling Quartet: Hamburg: Port of Call

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2001

Hamburg guitarist Hans Fahling wrote eleven compositions for Hamburg, each accompanied by a Patrick Haskett painting in the liner notes. The artistic intent behind this dual presentation (funded by a number of international sponsors) is well-realized through a series of shifting moods and styles. However, the interdisciplinary approach on Hamburg disguises the high-level improvisational bent of the music considered on its own.

Fahling's German Quartet, responsible for a third of the tracks, operates smoothly and seamlessly. This group appears equally ...