Ellery Eskelin, Christian Weber & Michael Griener - Sensations of Tone (2017) [Official Digital Download]

The trio with Ellery Eskelin, Christian Weber and Michael Griener presents an extraordinary album: on Sensations Of Tone the New York saxophonist, the Berlin drummer and the Swiss bassist play Free Music as well as Traditional Jazz. "We dug more deeply into our improvisations and looked directly at this shared affinity for early jazz", Ellery Eskelin writes in the liner notes. The Eskelin-Weber-Griener trio does not fuse the individual ways of playing, it alternates and contrasts. Each of the beautiful standards «Shreveport Stomp», «China Boy», «Moten Swing» and «Ain’t Misbehavin’» is followed by free improvisations. Ellery Eskelin writes: "Separating these performances (rather than mixing them) exposed the ways in which the same «tones» can elicit very different «sensations». And depending upon your own subjective views, despite the obvious differences, there may well be unexpected similarities to be found." A wonderful music, beyond categories.

Tracklist:
1.Orchard and Broom 08:59
2.Shreveport Stomp 04:05
3.Cornelia Street 07:31
4.China Boy 04:12
5.Ditmas Avenue 08:00
6.Moten Swing 05:35
7.Dumbo 07:47
8.Ain’t Misbehavin’ 06:30

Personnel:
Ellery Eskelin, tenor saxophone
Christian Weber, double bass
Michael Griener, drums

Recorded February 15, 2016, by Jon Rosenberg at Systems TwoStudios, Brooklyn, NY
Mixed and mastered by Willy Strehler and Christian Weber at Studio Klangdach, Guntershausen
Executive Production by Anja Illmaier