Robert Landfermann

Robert Landfermann: Topaz

by Don Phipps
December 3, 2019

A brilliant tour de force, Robert Landfermann's Topaz is helped in no small part by the amazing contributions of the quartet Landfermann assembled for this session. It is clear he prefers spontaneous improvisation over formal structures. The key to such an approach relies on the ability of the musicians to both listen to one another and mirror each other's music as the improvisation develops emotionally and contextually in space time. Landfermann is joined on the album by reed ...