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Favre, Pierre Ensemble: Le Voyage (Intakt)

Percussionist Pierre Favre's 10 piece Ensemble performing Favre's original compositions and one Swiss traditional number, large scale works that transcend and follow great jazz tradition.
 

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Claudio Puntin-clarinet, bass clarinet

Samuel Blaser-trombone

Philipp Schaufelberger-guitar

Beat Hofstetter-soprano saxophone

Sascha Armbruster-alto saxophone

Andrea Formenti-tenor saxophone

Beat Kappeler-bariton saxophone

Wolfgang Zwiauer-bass guitar

BŠnz Oester-bass

Pierre Favre-drums, percussion


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UPC: 760120191863

Label: Intakt
Catalog ID: ITK186.2
Squidco Product Code: 13890

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Switzerland
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded January 7th and 8th, 2010 by Martin Pearson and Andy Nieresheimer at Schweizer Radio DRS.

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"Time and again, images of flowing, drifting, of moved and moving elements are created in Pierre Favre's music. He takes us on a journey. The Ensemble becomes a collective medium of experience, an extension of playing his percussion instruments and a transformation of the improvisation into compositions of crystalline beauty. Pierre Favre, who does not belong to any school of composers and who does not feel bound to any other rules but those of his very own sensitive taste, is not afraid of letting the sounds bloom into their own pure Gestalt. And he works with powerful contrasts. His way of composing is similar to his way of playing the drums, understanding the rhythmically-related elements at the same time as melodically-related and vice versa."-Intakt


Artist Biographies

"[...] Born and raised in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland - a lesser-known but no less significant jazz metropolis which was, for a time, home to expatriate Americans Sidney Bechet and Kenny Clarke, as well as Swiss jazz trombonist Raymond Droz - Blaser has also spent considerable time living in New York City and currently resides in Berlin; truly an international musician, then, in clear defiance of boundaries cultural, musical and stylistic. Beginning trombone lessons at the age of 9, he "couldn't go past third position and had to have a trolley to carry trombone because it was too heavy," says Blaser. Still, with plenty of music in the Blaser household, where he was the middle of three children - ranging from Swiss folk music to American R&B and jazz - Blaser progressed quickly, entering the local conservatory at 14 and graduating seven years later in 2002 after receiving a number of awards in both the jazz and classical spheres, including the 2000 Benny Golson Prize.

Continuing private studies, Blaser began a number of significant associations, including the heralded Vienna Art Orchestra and European Radio Big Band, leading to a Fulbright scholarship which enabled him to study in the United States at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, going on to win the J.J. Johnson Prize, as well as both the Public Prize and Jury's Favorite Player awards at the 2006 Fribourg Jazz Festival.

All of these diverse accomplishments have ultimately - and inevitably - led to Blaser finding a personal nexus where disparate elements like Indian Tihi and Wagnerian opera meet. Blaser's impressive improvisational élan is predicated on instrumental mastery that is nothing more than the means to very musical ends. Together with his equally unfettered quartet, Blaser continues to expand the purview of jazz, redefining it in the new millennium as it enters its second century of existence.

Beyond Blaser's ability to combine knotty compositional form with incendiary improvisational prowess in the context of his own music, his unfettered yet ever-collaborative approach has resulted in a number of significant associations, among them his ongoing work with Swiss percussion legend Pierre Favre; a much-lauded duo with pianist Malcolm Braff; touring in 2012 as a member of François Houle's recent 5+1 group, and heard on the French Canadian clarinetist's Genera (Songlines, 2012); and recording/performing with Berlin-based Canadian saxophonist Peter van Huffel's HuffLiGNoN group with singer Sophie Tassignon. Blaser has also shared the stage with artists including trombonist David Taylor, bassist Michael Blake, drummer John Hollenbeck and pianist Hal Galper. It's no surprise that Rene Laanen of USA Trombone Online has called Blaser" one of today´s finest trombonists."

2013 will see Blaser touring with two new trios: one that, in addition to Marc Ducret, will also feature Danish drummer Peter Bruun; and another featuring French pianist Benoit Delbecq and American drummer Gerry Hemingway. Equally important, Blaser will also reunite his Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue, 2011) Quartet with pianist Russ Lossing, Belgian reed player Joachim Badenhorst, bassist Drew Gress and Hemingway, who replaces the sadly deceased Paul Motian. That record - Blaser's first and only to include a pianist, marrying the seemingly disparate elements of Renaissance and Baroque period composition with more open-ended jazz improvisation - was praised by All About Jazz's Troy Collins as " Fearlessly modern, yet respectfully regal." Collins continues, asserting that "Blaser's adventurous arrangements and reinterpretations offer the best of both worlds, enriching the raw impetuousness of avant-garde jazz with the proven sophistication of ageless classical forms. Consort in Motion is a high-water mark in the enduring lineage of the Third Stream, and all the more inspiring for the focus of its vision."

Meanwhile, with the release of As the Sea - like Boundless, a live recording but one culled from a single performance - Blaser reaps the rewards of greater trust and personal camaraderie built with Ducret, Oester and Cleaver through additional touring, following the release of their debut recording. "The music is quite different from the first record," says Blaser, "because things are more written. It's a little more complex rhythmically, too. But it's crazy, because I can play anything - a single note, even - and everybody will move with me. It's pretty intense."

Between recording and touring with his own groups and collaborating in other leaders' ensembles, Blaser's career continues an upward trajectory that seems to have no end in sight. "The world of music fascinates me to no end, and I´m determined to take one journey after another with my instrument and work," says Blaser. "It´s all about discovery and communicating new ideas. Believe me, I´m proof that a shiny trombone can send a message right to your heart and change your life." "

-Samuel Blaser Website (https://www.samuelblaser.com/biography/)
3/27/2024

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"The master years have begun, the two children are grown, and Wolfgang Zwiauer stands there like a bare tree trunk in the musical life, the branches of youth and the last 30 years as a bassist in the jazz, pop, improv and songwriter scene have been sawed off for the most part and new collaborations sprout finely into the next phase.

Long-term collaborations with Christy Doran's New Bag, Shirley Grimes, Tinu Heiniger, Hans Feigenwinter, Don Li stand still, are over or are waiting for new versions, 20 years of university teaching have been held, 150 productions have been recorded and tours to distant countries have taken place. And now? Now comes the second tranche with another 30 years full of music!

Participating in new territory is the invitation for a higher dose of artistic input.

A release is imminent with the new drum-bass vessel 'BASS DRUM PEOPLE', in which the vibe of the compositions was equally influenced by Fabian Bürgi and Wolfgang Zwiauer.

In the dance project 'ENDLICH' by Karin Minger, 5 musicians from classical, electronic, old and new music plus Wolfgang Zwiauer on the mandocello come together, improvise and interpret to body sculptures in architectural shells.

With the 70-year-old grandmaster Christy Doran on the guitar and Lukas Mantel on the drums, the trio 'MORPHEOS' was formed, in which Wolfgang Zwiauer wanted to intervene more in the production method in order to discover a new guitar trio sound. The ability to layer tracks is borrowed from pop music and is intended to bring new possibilities with the use of the recording studio as an instrument.

Wherever possible, Wolfgang Zwiauer insists on trying to mix generations and genders to promote equality and diversity in a male-dominated music scene. The new band 'ALVA LEAVES' of drummer Gert Stäuble benefits from this and forms a lineup of 3 women and 3 men, with an age range of 21 to 56 years. As the best side effect of this, daughter Sophie Grimes and Finja Keogh are represented as newcomers.

The bands 'Enders Room' around the German tenor sax giant Johannes Enders and Mich Gerber's ALL STAR JAM BAND with ex-Young God Al Comet and Andi Pupato are rarely active, but when they are, they're always happy because the musicianship is so great.

After a long time at an institution like the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Wolfgang Zwiauer founded his own BASS BÜRO BERN, where private lessons can take place as a mandate for prospective professionals, as well as other forms of musical, production-technical support for the implementation of cultural projects.

The evaluation of the 100 results with around 240 musicians from the 'LIFE AT THE ZOO' series, which were created during the pandemic years 20-22 in the 'The Zoo' studio in Bern and were technically and programmatically supervised, will also be part of the cultural resources use up until this partial cross-section of the local scene can be heard free of charge for everyone in the long term.

Part of my passion flows into musical environments that are primarily fun and enjoyable, do not pursue or aspire to a career and are therefore heartwarming. Wolfgang Zwiauer seeks exchange with younger and older musicians such as current master drummer Norbert Pfammatter, high-flyer guitarist Dimitri Howald, newcomer Sonja Ott on trumpet to interpret favorite standards from the big songbooks. 'JAZZ!' Or with Sophie and Finja he interprets street versions of teenage playlists with folky grooving mandocello, stompbox and delays and they perform as 'TEENAGE SONGBOOK'. At private parties, Florian Favre, Simon Baumann, Daniel Woodtli and Wolfgang Zwiauer keep coming together as 'ROOFTOPPERS' and jam for hours, morphing through their common denominator. As a former member of the SWISS JAZZ ORCHESTRA, I'm always happy to help out in this fiery, self-directed big band when Antonio Schiavano isn't able to.

Parallel to the music world, Wolfgang Zwiauer works with Dan Hodler's architecture and recycling company QUADRAT and helps in various corners and ends to realize the vision of a 60-meter high wooden building in Ostermundigen near Bern. Designed according to the latest recycling ideas and with the potential to develop a music community with shared work, recording and living spaces, including shared material."

-Wolfgang Zwiauer Website (https://wolfgangzwiauer.com/)
3/27/2024

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Pierre Favre is a Swiss jazz drummer and percussionist, born 2 June 1937 in Le Locle, Switzerland.

"When Pierre Favre began to explore new worlds of sound in drumming in the 1960s, he had already played with many internationally renowned Europeans and Americans as well as with prominent big bands. But it pushed him to an independent music. It all started in a trio with bassist George Mraz, then with Peter Kowald on double bass and from the start with Irene Schweizer on piano. "It is," says Pierre Favre, "a stroke of luck in a long, independent and yet joint development.

Searching for the melodic aspects of drums and percussion, Pierre Favre found his way to the solo. Together with Paul Motian, Fredy Studer and Nana Vasconcelos, he formed a percussion ensemble that increased the orchestral possibilities of percussive solo playing. "Singing Drums", a quartet with four percussionists, underwent a further transformation in the form of The "European Chamber Ensemble", a line-up with two percussionists, horns and strings.

In 2004, the city of Zurich honored Pierre Favre with the city's art prize."-Bert Noglik, Pierre Favre website

-Pierre Favre Website (https://www.pierrefavre.ch/pierre/)
3/27/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Les Vilains 7:38

2. Vreneli Ab Em Guggisberg 7:08

3. One For Makaya 1:59

4. Akimbo 6:34

5. As Far As That Goes... 10:05

6. Anapana 3:12

7. Attila Est-Tu Là? 3:21

8. Wrong Name 6:47

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