Home » Jazz Musicians » Joachim Gies

Joachim Gies

Sign in / sign up and request update access to the Joachim Gies page.


Tags

155
Album Review

Joachim Gies: Whispering Blue

Read "Whispering Blue" reviewed by AAJ Staff


The use of the saxophone to generate sounds outside the limits of its “design" has been a longstanding tradition in jazz, from the honks and squeals of the music's earliest practitioners, through the wrenching vocalizations of players like Ayler and Coltrane, and continuing on today through the latest generation of sonic explorers, including the wildly inventive player Mats Gustafsson. Joachim Gies, one of today's most creative exponents of “other" saxophone music, takes a different tack on Whispering Blue. Gies' vision ...

137
Album Review

Joachim Gies: Different Distances

Read "Different Distances" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Joachim Gies plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, as well as bass clarinet. This is a disc of 23 brief duos (the longest is four-and-a-half minutes; there's also a solo Gies piece that's just over seven minutes) played by Gies with, variously, mezzo-soprano Ute Döring; Alex Nowitz (male voice, live electronics); Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky (alto sax); Thomas Wiedermann (trombone); and Thomas Böhm-Christi (cello).

Gies has a chameleon's ability on his various reeds. On “Arizona" with the wailing (and electronically transmuting) Nowitz ...

Read more articles

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mnemosyne

OutNote Records
2013

buy

Tenderness Of Stones

OutNote Records
2007

buy

Leo Records 25th...

Leo Records
2007

buy

Rilke Anthology I

OutNote Records
2003

buy

Whispering Blue

Leo Records
2001

buy

Different Distances

OutNote Records
1999

buy

Similar

Buddy Johnson
composer / conductor

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.