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Chris Gall

Born in 1975 in Bad Aibling, Germany, Chris Gall is an up and coming pianist who has been gaining recognition in the international music scene. His playing crosses the borders of jazz and jumps into the vast field of contemporary world and pop music. After years of training as a classical pianist, he was awarded with several scholarships and studied at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. He finished his jazz studies there in 1998. Chris Gall was a permanent member of some promising international bands, including East Indian fusion band “Taalism” feat. Shakir Khan (sitar) and Kai Eckhardt (bass) or brazilian based “Giana Viscardi Group” with whom Chris Gall made his debut at the famous Montreux Jazz Festival. He has also performed with such important artists such as the New York Voices (Grammy Award Winner), Chico Cesar, Nils Landgren, Dusko Goykovic, and De-Phazz vocalist Karl Frierson etc. Chris Gall has released with his „Chris Gall Trio featuring Enik“ the two albums “Climbing Up” (2008) and follower „Hello Stranger“ (2010) on renowned jazz label ACT containing only original music. Since then he performed with his trio in great festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival (2009), Stuttgarter Jazz Open (2010), Jazz Baltica (2011) and the Vienna Concert Hall (2012).

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Mulo Francel: Mountain Melody

Read "Mountain Melody" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Mulo Francel turned out to be somewhat ahead of his time. He didn't need to wait for a pandemic to send everyone into isolation; he already had a habit of making music in the middle of nowhere for several years before the 2020 outbreak. His fascination with mountains (natural enough for someone who grew up in the shadow of the Alps) had him making climbs throughout Europe and Asia to find some of the most exotic recording locations imaginable— ultimately ...

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Chris Gall - Bernhard Schimpelsberger: Myriad

Read "Myriad" reviewed by Geno Thackara


If there's one thing that makes Myriad such a subtly thrilling success, it is compatibility. Chris Gall has a consummately melodic voice at the piano with a relentless pulse running through everything, however heavy or light. Bernhard Schimpelsberger is a versatile percussionist whose rhythmic sense is bolstered by an extensive palette of sounds and tones. Somehow their respective strengths fit each other's spaces like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle slotting together, making for a worldly outing full of color and ...

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Chris Gall: Room Of Silence

Read "Room Of Silence" reviewed by Don Phipps


Chris Gall's Room of Silence shines best on its original material, and it's a good thing since the album has ten originals and four covers. In keeping with his classical foundation, Gall's compositions feel like ballets. One can picture dancers stepping gently along a brook, underneath a late-afternoon sky on a fall day in Vermont. Like sugar and red maples swaying in a cool breeze, Gall's music weaves back and forth and stretches out in dark reds, oranges, and yellows. ...

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Chris Gall: Cosmic Playground

Read "Cosmic Playground" reviewed by Don Phipps


It's easy to hear references to classical music in Chris Gall's style of jazz. After all, he is a trained classical pianist. And those who like a bit of Chopin with their jazz will certainly enjoy Cosmic Playground. Gall's music also incorporates elements of rock and funk. Offering up strong melodic lines, Gall and his fellow musicians (Henning Sieverts on bass and brother Peter Gall on drums) intermix a confluence of styles on seven original tunes and two ...

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„Chris Gall’s trio provides evidence that jazz is alive and kicking in Germany.” Tom Barlow, Jazzwise (UK)

„Chris Gall is a striking pianist, alternately percussive and airy, dramatic and evocative.” Ron Simpson, The Jazz Rag (UK)

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