If (blue) then (blue)

Description

For the first time, Heinz Sauer and Joachim Kühn are brought together on record. Michael Wollny also participates in the recording alongside these two jazz legends from across the Rhine. The press has raved about the duo albums of Michael Wollny and Heinz Sauer. "Here, jazz is alive. What a duo! Superb jazz sketches recorded for eternity," enthused Jazzman, which awarded the album "A Certain Beauty" a Choc Jazzman of the year in 2006. The same intoxicating magic can be found in listening to these new sound vignettes. The duos Sauer/Kühn and Sauer/Wollny succeed each other and notably celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the seminal album "Kind Of Blue," with three covers of the masterpiece. Sauer's uncompromising saxophone is adorned with a thousand colors; raw, hoarse, penetrating, diaphanous, evanescent, enchanting, it provokes in the listener a mosaic of almost simultaneous emotions. He is a master of timbre and expression who stirs the listener and elevates them ever higher towards the peaks of improvisation. This recording is captivating because it also allows for a parallel between the fervor and unpredictability of Wollny's piano, with Kühn's mastery and intimate knowledge of jazz history. Far from engaging in competition, their discourses intertwine and enrich each other throughout the album, whose tracks are presented in the chronological order of their recording.