It’s a very special kind of meeting, a leap across the generation divide: Melancholia documents the creative collaboration between one of the most important influences on post-war jazz and one of the greatest talents of the new breed of jazzers in Germany: Heinz Sauer and Michael Wollny.
Sauer has always been a master of the terse miniature, but not in the way that it is shown in this CD. The music can be contrasted with his compositions for the Jazz Ensemble of Jazz Ensemble of the Frankfurt Radio where he brings together strange themes in amazing elaborate arrangements. Here then, in the smallest of combinations, the duo, the concept of the short piece piece (most of them no longer than three minutes) is taken in a different direction: The aim is the concentration of the individual on each detail of the sounds of improvisation as well as the interplay between the partners. It often then evolves into the rhythmically free shaping of the themes.
On this CD he comments and supports with a fascinating mixture of wisdom and playfulness. In the discipline of touch and in the harmonic understanding his experiences in classical music are evident, from chorales to punctualism and even a slight hunch of atonality.
In particular with the most well-known standards, and most notably in Round Midnight and Don’t Explain Sauer plays freely around on the melodic elements, while Wollny knowledgably creates unpredictable harmonies askew from the original changes – technical details in the service of the creation of a compelling atmosphere for each piece: bright and dark, the clamour and the aesthetic play with beauty, the associations which are different for each hearer, as clearly understood by Heinz Sauer in the title of his piece “Welcome To What You Think You Hear”.
Tracklist:
01. ABC
02. Space Cake
03. Dry Icarus
04. Crows On The Roof
05. Welcome To What You Think You Hear
06. Blue Print
07. Deep River
08. Sculptor
09. Out Of Diversity
10. Trouble With Mutation
11. Dreaming Field
12. Round Midnight
13. Melancholia
14. Deep Sea
15. Seven Sharp
16. Ursa Minor
17. Welcome To What You Hear
18. Don’t Explain
Total time: 50:51
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Heinz Sauer & Michael Wollny / Melancholia
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See also:
Wollny, Kruse, Schaefer – [em] 3 (2008)
Heinz Sauer, Michael Wollny, J…- If (Blue) Then (Blue) (2010)
Michael Wollny’s [em] – Wasted & Wanted (2012)
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