Heinz Sauer - The Journey (Jazz, 2008)

Heinz Sauer
THE JOURNEY (CD - ACT 9461-2)
Release Date Germany: 2008-01-04



1. Now Jazz Ramwong - 08:58 (Mangelsdorff, Albert) - Sauer, Heinz / Mangelsdorff, Albert
2. Nachwort - 01:55 (Sauer, Heinz) - Sauer, Heinz / Mangelsdorff, Albert
3. Blues Booth - 03:22 (Sauer, Heinz) - Sauer, Heinz / Mangelsdorff, Albert
4. Round About Midnight - 06:39 (Monk, Thelonious) - Sauer, Heinz / Degen, Bob
5. Sagma - 04:12 (Sauer, Heinz) - Sauer, Heinz / NDR Bigband
6. Lush Life - 06:13 (Strayhorn, Billy) - Sauer, Heinz
7. Blues, Eternal Turn On - 06:58 (Mangelsdorff, Albert) - Sauer, Heinz / Hessischer Rundfunk Jazzensemble
8. Darauf der Schnee danach - 01:25 (Sauer, Heinz) - Sauer, Heinz / Hessischer Rundfunk Jazzensemble
9. Chelsea Bridge - 07:04 (Strayhorn, Billy) - Sauer, Heinz / NDR Bigband
10. Winterballade - 01:35 (Sauer, Heinz) - Sauer, Heinz / Hessischer Rundfunk Jazzensemble
11. Küss die Hand, Madame - 03:13 (Sauer, Heinz) - Sauer, Heinz
12. The Narrator - 07:44 (Sauer, Heinz) - Sauer, Heinz
13. Roses Are Black - 04:58 (Sauer, Heinz) - Sauer, Heinz / Degen, Bob
14. Nothing Compares 2 U - 02:40 (Prince) - Sauer, Heinz / Wollny, Michael
15. Variations On Redford - 03:00 (Stevens, Sufjan) - Sauer, Heinz / Wollny, Michael

“This 75th-birthday retrospective for German tenor saxophonist Sauer is a revelation. Feel your jaw hit the floor, for this is as deep and noir as jazz gets.
It's one of the great mysteries of jazz how saxophonist Heinz Sauer can be such a hero on the German scene, but so low-profile everywhere else. Few jazz improvisers have evolved something so trenchantly characterful from such a broad span of influences: 1940s swing-ballad smokiness, the brusque motivic diversions of Sonny Rollins, post-Coltrane free-sax multiphonics and a lot more. This colourfully varied compilation celebrates Sauer's recent 75th birthday. It takes in his spiritedly swinging early freebop work with trombone star Albert Mangelsdorff, starting with the folksy, horn-chasing melody of 1964's Now Jazz Ramwong and the slinky dissonances of 1970's Blues Booth. There is a delicious conversation on Round Midnight between Sauer and pianist Bob Degen; one of the great sax improvisations on Lush Life; some thrilling big-band blasting; and two delicate exchanges for Sauer's current major partnership, with the young jazz/classical pianist Michael Wollny. This confirms that Sauer really ought to be up there with the biggest sax names you've ever heard of.”
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (UK)

Personnel: Heinz Sauer: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone (1), synthesizer (10) ; Albert Mangelsdorff: trombone (1-3, 7, 10); Gunter Kronberg: alto saxophone (1); Gunter Lenz: bass (1-3, 6, 7, 10); Ralf Hubner: drums (1-3, 7, 8, 10); Bob Degen: piano (4, 6-8, 10-13); NDR Bigband, conducted by Dieter Glawischnig (5, 9); Wolfgang Schluter: vibraphone (5, 9); Ronnie Stephenson: drums (6); Christof Lauer: tenor saxophone (8, 10); Joki Freund: soprano saxophone (8, 10); Emil Mangelsdorff: alto saxophone (8), soprano saxophone (10); Rainer Link: bass (8); Tomasz Stanko: trumpet (9); Stephan Schmolk: bass (11, 12); Michael Wollny: piano (14, 15).

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