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Philipp Zoubek: Outside

By Alberto Bazzurro
April 2, 2019
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Inciso a Colonia nel dicembre 2017, questo album vede il quarantenne pianista austriaco

Philip Zoubek

pandeiro

" data-original-title="" title="">Philip Zoubek, collaboratore fra gli altri di

Paul Lytton

drums
b.1947

" data-original-title="" title="">Paul Lytton,

Frank Gratkowski

saxophone
b.1963

" data-original-title="" title="">Frank Gratkowski,

Ernst Glerum

bass, acoustic

" data-original-title="" title="">Ernst Glerum ed

Herb Robertson

trumpet
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Herb Robertson, misurarsi con la prediletta formula del trio, nello specifico affiancato dal bassista tedesco David Helm e dal batterista elvetico

Dominik Mahnig

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Dominik Mahnig.

Come principali punti di riferimento, Zoubek abbina

Lennie Tristano

piano
1919 - 1978

" data-original-title="" title="">Lennie Tristano e

Paul Bley

piano
1932 - 2016

" data-original-title="" title="">Paul Bley a

Glenn Gould

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Glenn Gould,

John Cage

composer / conductor
1912 - 1992

" data-original-title="" title="">John Cage, Iannis Xenakis e

" data-original-title="" title="">Morton Feldman, il che ci fa capire come la sua formazione si abbeveri ugualmente al jazz pi�� curioso e innovativo come al Novecento cosiddetto "colto."

Tutto ci�� si riverbera nei dieci brani che compongono questo Outside, indistintamente a firma del pianista, per quanto scrollarsi di dosso tutta la pesante tradizione, la letteratura, che una formula trafficata come il piano trio si porta appresso sia impresa da far tremare i polsi a chiunque. Qui la volont�� di battere itinerari personali �� in ogni caso largamente avvertibile, con risultati anche egregi.

Gli episodi in cui tale intenzione si coglie in maniera pi�� nitida sono a conti fatti quelli pi�� irregolari, tipo il breve ”Now Then”, dall'incedere nervoso, ”Spaces in Between”, astratto e libero, e ”Gambit”, peraltro all'interno di un corpus complessivo di valore comunque omogeneo e felicemente equilibrato nelle sue varie componenti.

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Track Listing

Scanning; Rhetorics; Now Then; Sketch; Spaces in Between; Der K?nig; Gambit; The Clearing; The Long Fade; Distorted Chants.

Personnel

Philip Zoubek

pandeiro

Philip Zoubek: piano; David Helm: bass; Dominik Mahnig: drums.

Album information

Title: Outside | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: WhyPlayJazz

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