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Matthias Schubert

Matthias Schubert, *1960 in Kassel, Germany This man is one of the leading German saxophone players. If you have ever seen him on stage you'll hardly forget his performance. His extremely powerful playing, the richness of ideas in his improvisations and his inspired compositions give him a prime position in German Jazz.

He got his first awards at the Jazz Festival "de Meervart" in Amsterdam 1980 and at the competition of the International Jazz Federation 1982. In 1993 he received a grant from the W. Zippel Foundation in Kassel. 1995 he received the renowned Jazzaward of the "Südwest Funk". 1996 he got an award at "Internationaler Musikwettbewerb für junge Kultur", Duesseldorf/Germany.

He played among others in the Euro Jazz Big Band, the Graham Collier Band, the Marty Cook Band, the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett, Basslab, the Jazzartrio, the Gunter Hampel and the Galaxy Dream Band, the Klaus Koenig Orchestra, in the Duo Di Sax and with the Jungle Pilots.

Current projects as Bandleader:

Matthias Schubert Quartet (with Carl Ludwig Huebsch Tuba, Claudio Puntin clarinet and Tom Rainey drums)

Saxophone Duos with Frank Gratkowski und Renato Cordovanni

James Choice Orchestra (Orchestra lead by Norbert Stein, Carl Ludwig Huebsch, Frank Gratkowski und Matthias Schubert)

He has played and performed at Jazzvestivals in:

Bracknell und Candom (Great Britain) Cork (Irlande) Amsterdam und Groningen (Netherlands) Marne le Valle, Paris, Les Mans and Tulon (France) Antwerpen (Belgium) Hollabrunn (Austria) Zagreb, Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) Warschau (Poland) Sofia (Bulgaria) Bukarest (Romania) Jaroslavel (Russia) Porto (Portugal) Izmir (Turkey) Melbourne und Sydney (Australia) Toronto und Montreal (Canada) Pompei, Modena, Genova, Ravenna, Florenz, Pisa (Italy) ...all renowned Jazzfestivals in Germany

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Disco composito, felicemente irregolare, questo del sestetto (in un caso settetto) diretto dal sessantatreenne chitarrista tedesco Andreas Willers, con le stimmate dell'opera largamente meditata, fortemente intenzionale, nella concezione così come nel gesto che ne accompagna la messa in pratica. Partenza al fulmicotone nel breve “Case of Need" e poi momenti più riflessivi, quasi sfuggenti, ma sempre con quelle nervature intestine che ne testimoniano la grana, lo spessore, l'urgenza creativa. Tutti lavorano ottimamente, sia negli insiemi, mai amorfi ...

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Simon Nabatov: Time Labyrinth

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Registrato il 17 aprile 2019 a Colonia, “Time Labyrinth" è la prima parte di un progetto di Simon Nabatov denominato Changing Perspectives, che sarà completato nel prossimo futuro. Il pianista e compositore di origine russa vive nella città tedesca da quasi tre decenni ed è una figura di primo piano nell'universo della musica improvvisata europea ai confini tra jazz d'avanguardia e musica classica contemporanea. Le sei composizioni che costituiscono l'opera si collocano decisamente nell'ambito della musica ...

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Simon Nabatov: Time Labyrinth

Read "Time Labyrinth" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Pianist Simon Nabatov is well-known for his explosive semi-structured presentations and freely navigated improvisational advances within this seemingly limitless musical space. But Nabatov is a composer who often stretches the perceived limits of avant-garde jazz. With this effort, he pursues a largely new approach by employing chamberesque forums via an acoustic-electric platform, intensified by consummate woodwind aces Frank Gratkowski, Matthias Schubert and other stalwarts to round out a drummer-less Germany-based septet. In the liners, the leader states that ...

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Matthias Schubert: 9 Compositions for the Multiple Joy[ce] Ensemble

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Il tenorsassofonista tedesco Matthias Schubert, una trentina d'anni fa tra le maggiori promesse del jazz europeo (e come tale inserito in formazioni che in qualche modo ratificavano tale status), strada facendo--in realtà uscendo spesso e volentieri dal nostro cono di luce--si è avvicinato alla composizione pura, con risultati che questo CD, inciso a Colonia nel dicembre 2012, ci dice assolutamente invidiabili. Le nove pagine di sua penna che compongono il disco mantengono anzitutto un carattere conchiuso e ...

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Matthias Schubert / Simon Nabatov Duo: Descriptions

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Si conoscevano e frequentavano da quasi trent'anni ma, sino a oggi, nonostante i tanti concerti, non avevano mai avuto la possibilità di incrociare i propri strumenti registrando anche un disco insieme. Per fortuna loro e nostra il signor “risolvo i problemi" Leo Feigin, strabiliante mente operativa e produttiva di una buona metà della musica di ricerca del pianeta da mezzo secolo a questa parte, ci metta la pezza e pubblica questo Descriptions che traduce in pensiero digitale la particolare energia ...

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Matthias Schubert / Simon Nabatov Duo: Descriptions

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Descriptions marks the initial alliance of venerable European improvisers, tenor saxophonist Matthias Schubert and pianist Simon Nabatov. Recorded live at a venue in Cologne, Germany, the musicians plan their modalities on descriptive nouns, which is an interesting proposition that tenders food for thought on a per-track basis. They mold song forms based on ephemeral or lengthy interpretations of a descriptive word. Nonetheless, the program is a composite of penetrating and forward-looking dialogues complete with asymmetrical sensibilities framed on introspection, oscillating ...

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Matthias Schubert: 9 Compositions for The Multiple Joy[ce] Ensemble

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Featuring an international cast, Matthias Schubert conducts a program that snugly resides in the avant-garde space. Each track is outlined in the liners, citing connotations, inspirations and homages, where it's up to the listener to connect the dots via his or her interpretations. It's a hybrid offering engineered with asymmetrical parts of classical, jazz improvisation, John Cage-like indeterminacy and neo-minimalism. “Conlon Zoubeck" features pianist Phillip Zoubeck's off- center manipulations that could be categorized as a song-form designed on ...

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Scott Fields, Matthias Schubert - Minaret Minuets (Clean Feed, 2111) ****

Scott Fields, Matthias Schubert - Minaret Minuets (Clean Feed, 2111) ****

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels

By Paul Acquaro There is a great deal of space for electric guitarist Scott Fields and tenor saxophonist Matthias Schubert to fill on this recent duo outing. Clean Feed offers this description on their site: “In the Minaret Minuets system there are two separate but equal branches: the electric guitar and the tenor saxophone. Composer slash instrumentalists—those roles smear—Scott Fields and Matthias Schubert find myriad methods to blend and contrast, to appear to be at one moment a larger ensemble ...

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Time Labyrinth

Leo Records
2020

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The Goldman Variations

Jazzwerkstatt
2020

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Descriptions

Leo Records
2014

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9 Compositions for...

Red Toucan Records
2014

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9 Compositions for...

Red Toucan Records
2013

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