Pirouet

Jürgen Friedrich, John Hébert, and Tony Moreno are exponents of the highest art of the piano trio. They are a masterful trio who play music swirling with intensely vivid, luminous colours. Refinement and immediacy: seldom does one find this combination in such consummate harmony and at the same time with such a subtle complexity.

New York saxophonist Robin Verheyen and his Pirouet debut, Starbound, brilliantly accompanied by Bill Carrothers, Nicolas Thys, and Dré Pallemaerts: masterful clarity and atmospheric depth. The young saxophonist's Pirouet debut is a CD for listeners who want to be challenged and who treasure the art of nuance.

This CD demonstrates that smartly constructed compositions can have a captivating atmosphere and be a lot of fun at the same time. Henning Sieverts draws on the immense possibilities of the systematic and masterfully exploits these possibilities. With his ear attuned to continual change, Sieverts has made subtle use of symmetric material in the pieces on this CD.

Magician of musical textures and colours, virtuoso of shading, Loren Stillman writes with stylistic self-assurance and sensitivity about the most sensual mysteries of modern jazz.