do Albert Mangelsdorff Tonegallery

• 1 Wart g'schwind 08:11
• 2 Certain Beauty 05:00
• 3 Rip Off 04:55
• 4 The Horn is A Lady 05:19
• 5 Meise vorm Fenster 05:21
• 6 Wheat Song 03:58
• 7 Triplicity 05:51
• 8 Ant Stepped On An Elephant's Toe 02:40
• 9 A Minor Blues In F 04:11
• 10 Ballade für Jessica Rose 02:42
• 11 The Very Human Factor 04:03
• Total Runtime 52:11

Info for do Albert Mangelsdorff

Albert Mangelsdorff is primarily known as an instrumentalist and improviser - a band project posthumously dedicated explicitly to his compositions has not existed until now. ToneGallery would like to close this gap and has creatively edited and rearranged selected compositions.

ToneGallery deliberately dedicates itself to Mangelsdorff's compositions without direct reference to his instrument, so there will be no trombone - just as there was no piano in the homage to Tristano.

In this way, a new perspective on the music of the exceptional trombonist emerges, which pays tribute to his legacy and at the same time bears the signature of ToneGallery.

"I think that only when you can spontaneously use all possibilities, you are really free. I wouldn't want to miss free jazz even today. But I don't want to go into a ghetto, I want to use all the possibilities that jazz offers today...", said Germany's most famous trombonist, Albert Mangelsdorff, in 1993.

A quote that gives an idea of the wide range of his musical work. This is exactly what the quartet "ToneGallery" around Steffen Weber (saxophone), Bastian Ruppert (guitar), Hans Glawischnig (double bass) and Holger Nesweda (drums) pays tribute to. At the same time, the band is closing a musical gap with their album "Do Albert Mangelsdorff". "Albert Mangelsdorff is primarily known as an instrumentalist and improviser. A band project dedicated posthumously to his compositions has never existed before," Steffen Weber underlines. Together with his three fellow musicians, he has creatively edited and rearranged selected compositions by the exceptional trombonist.

Courage and creativity - the quartet has retained these virtues on its follow-up album. Guitarist Bastian Ruppert speaks of a musical symbiosis: "Our album pays tribute to Mangelsdorff's legacy and at the same time bears the signature of ToneGallery. Typical jazz - the past inspires the new!"

"The sound effects achieved by the great quartet ...seem like finely polished sound gems from Mangelsdorff's original raw material" (Wolfgang Sandner, F.A.Z.)

ToneGallery:
Steffen Weber, tenor and soprano saxophone
Bastian Ruppert, guitar
Thomas Stabenow, double bass
Holger Nesweda, drums

Steffen Weber
Composer and leader of various own projects. Twice awarded the "German Record Critics' Prize". 2009 scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. Since 2012 member of the HR Big Band. steffenlaroseweber.de

Bastian Ruppert
Composer and guitarist in his own trio formation, sought-after sideman in various jazz and pop bands. Frankfurt Jazz Prize 2014 with the group ELECTROLYTE. bastianruppert.de

Hans Glawischnig
Has played with Chick Corea, Paquito d'Rivera and Ravi Coltrane, among others. He is a permanent member of Miguel Zenon's highly regarded quartet. Since 2019, member of the HR Big Band. hansglawischnig.com.

Holger Nesweda
Directs the concert series "New Jazzvoices" for the Enjoy Jazz Festival and works in various other jazz projects.

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