Sweet Freedom Johannes Enders

• 1 Air & Gin 04:03
• 2 Mostly Sonny 04:31
• 3 Sweet Freedom 1 02:04
• 4 Strode Rode 03:01
• 5 There Will Always Be Another Mystery 04:06
• 6 Pin up House 05:03
• 7 East Broadway Rundown 03:49
• 8 Sweet Freedom 05:10
• 9 Like Sonny in Love 03:06
• 10 Doxy 04:28
• Total Runtime 39:21

Info for Sweet Freedom

Sonny Rollins, one of the last living icons of modern jazz, was and is a role model for countless generations of saxophonists.

This is also the case for Johannes Enders, one of the most important European voices on the tenor saxophone. Reason enough, then, for Sonny Rollins to dedicate an entire album with arrangements of some of his greatest hits to the "Saxophone Colossus" and to go on tour with this program!

Joining this adventure are Munich bassist Henning Sieverts and Spanish drum legend Jorge Rossy (Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Chick Corea, Mark Turner and many more).

The title of the recording "Freedom Suite" says a lot about one of the central characteristics of jazz: the urge for musical freedom, but also the urge for freedom of Afro-American people. In 1958, when the civil rights movement was gaining momentum in the United States, the record company decided to pull the record with that title from the market for fear of politicizing the music.

Johannes Enders, saxophone
Henning Sieverts, bass
Jorge Rossy, drums

Johannes Enders
played the saxophone for the first time at the age of 14 and soon began taking lessons at the Weilheim Music School. There he met Micha and Markus Acher, who would later make up two-thirds of the Tied & Tickled Trio. A scholarship obtained for him by American bass legend Reggie Workman (John Coltrane, Art Blakey, among others) and his friendship with his mentor Vincent Herring led him to New York and the New School. There, Enders not only enjoyed the city and its clubs, but above all the lessons of jazz legends such as Donald Byrd, Jerry Bergonzi, Jimmy Cobb, and many others. His silver trophy at the American Music Fest in San Francisco (1990) and his participation in the finals of the renowned Thelonious Monk Competition in Washington, D.C., the following year ensured him a successful reception in the promised land.

Back in Germany, Johannes Enders quickly established himself as one of the most important voices on the tenor saxophone and was awarded the City of Munich's Culture Promotion Prize for Music, the SWR Jazz Prize, the Weilheim Culture Prize, and the New German Jazz Prize, among others. He became a member of the Tied & Tickled Trio and discovered his love for electronic and minimal music.

In addition to guest appearances on other artists' albums and numerous side projects, he repeatedly collaborates with musicians such as Gene Calderazzo, Jorge Rossi, Billy Hart, Joris Teepe, and many others. With Enders Room, a substantial and successful electro-jazz project that has released five successful albums to date (“Monolith,” 2003, “Human Radio,” 2004, “Hotel Alba,” 2006, “Random Guru,” 2008, Hikikomori 2020), he can mainly be heard at festivals.

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