Year: 2016
Time: 67:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 155,2 MB
Art: Front
(5:11) 1. When You Wish Upon a Star
(4:18) 2. It´s a Raggy Waltz
(3:31) 3. Three to Get Ready
(5:19) 4. Strange Meadow-Lark
(3:38) 5. Those Clouds Are Heavy, You Dig
(3:52) 6. Take Five
(6:05) 7. In Your Own Sweet Way
(3:14) 8. Koto Song
(3:03) 9. Sweet Slumber
(5:42) 10. Blue Rondo a La Turk
(5:30) 11. Emily
(2:04) 12. Unsquare Dance
(6:31) 13. Blessed Are the Poor
(5:18) 14. For Mara
(3:46) 15. The Message
Dave Brubeck loved crooked rhythms on the black and white keys, which are not necessarily to everyone's taste. The fact that the vocalist and saxophonist Sabine Kühlich from Aachen and the pianist Laia Genç from Cologne now dare to present a bunch of top-class songs of the maestro to the public on their CD "In Your Own Sweet Way" is due perhaps to the exceedingly charming challenge to let the seemingly complicated sound easy, simple and comprehensible. The keyboard great, who passed away at the end of 2012, represents something like an aesthetic lighthouse for the two women.
As a result, the two musicians were finally able realize their personal dream project. Stefan Hentz wrote in his liner notes that it is like a balancing on a slackline: "Child's play, totally effortless and perfectly natural, at least as it looks in the event of success." The courage to take risks, the tendency to complex puzzles and curiosity for ever new discoveries: "Brubeck had that ability, and he never failed with it. Genç and Kühlich have to be judged by that and make it clear at the same time that Brubeck's music is suitable as a springboard to intensity derived unmistakably from the present. Respect is in demand as well as transgression, feeling and understanding, convention and originality. Balance? What else?"
Sabine Kühlich studied Jazz in Amsterdam and New York, is a passioned composer, and swinging interpret of the Great American Songbook. Brazilian and Cuban music influence her work as much as touring and CD-productions with the Jazz-legend Sheila Jordan born 1928! Since 2006 Sabine is teacher of the Jazz Department at the Conservatory Maastricht, she lives in Germany. The „singer with a tempting voice“ won the Montreux Jazz Voice Competition in 2008, she played concerts in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Her „perfect timing“ (Barry Harris) and „brilliant music with wonderful lyrics“ (Sheila Jordan) can be found in several CD-productions as guest and front-woman.
Laia Genc is living and working in Germany, she is part of the indeed very rich Cologne music scene and plays concerts all around Europe and in the world, wether with her own projects or as a sidewoman.
To a lot of projects she adds a special colour as a sensitive soundpainteress, improviser, composer and arranger in her own particular way of mixing Jazz, free improvisation and lots of musical charme to an unmistakable sound. Her extended piano techniques give Laia the freedom to fully explore the border between composed structures and improvisational freedom.
Laia graduated her studies in jazzpiano at the conservatory in Cologne/Germany with some brave teachers, among them John Taylor. During her studies Laia lived in Paris for one year and studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. This year in France for her became one of the most inspriring and onleading periods of her studies.
Since she has started playing extensively she has been travelling and working musicwise in Luxemburg, Italy, France, Norway, Lithuania, Haiti, Belgium, The Netherlands and Australia. In Australia she toured in 2009 with her LiaisonTonique and Adam Simmons as special guest on thesaxophone.https://www.challengerecords.com/products/14557966683247/In%20Your%20Own%20Sweet%20Way?tab=2
As a result, the two musicians were finally able realize their personal dream project. Stefan Hentz wrote in his liner notes that it is like a balancing on a slackline: "Child's play, totally effortless and perfectly natural, at least as it looks in the event of success." The courage to take risks, the tendency to complex puzzles and curiosity for ever new discoveries: "Brubeck had that ability, and he never failed with it. Genç and Kühlich have to be judged by that and make it clear at the same time that Brubeck's music is suitable as a springboard to intensity derived unmistakably from the present. Respect is in demand as well as transgression, feeling and understanding, convention and originality. Balance? What else?"
Sabine Kühlich studied Jazz in Amsterdam and New York, is a passioned composer, and swinging interpret of the Great American Songbook. Brazilian and Cuban music influence her work as much as touring and CD-productions with the Jazz-legend Sheila Jordan born 1928! Since 2006 Sabine is teacher of the Jazz Department at the Conservatory Maastricht, she lives in Germany. The „singer with a tempting voice“ won the Montreux Jazz Voice Competition in 2008, she played concerts in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Her „perfect timing“ (Barry Harris) and „brilliant music with wonderful lyrics“ (Sheila Jordan) can be found in several CD-productions as guest and front-woman.
Laia Genc is living and working in Germany, she is part of the indeed very rich Cologne music scene and plays concerts all around Europe and in the world, wether with her own projects or as a sidewoman.
To a lot of projects she adds a special colour as a sensitive soundpainteress, improviser, composer and arranger in her own particular way of mixing Jazz, free improvisation and lots of musical charme to an unmistakable sound. Her extended piano techniques give Laia the freedom to fully explore the border between composed structures and improvisational freedom.
Laia graduated her studies in jazzpiano at the conservatory in Cologne/Germany with some brave teachers, among them John Taylor. During her studies Laia lived in Paris for one year and studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. This year in France for her became one of the most inspriring and onleading periods of her studies.
Since she has started playing extensively she has been travelling and working musicwise in Luxemburg, Italy, France, Norway, Lithuania, Haiti, Belgium, The Netherlands and Australia. In Australia she toured in 2009 with her LiaisonTonique and Adam Simmons as special guest on thesaxophone.https://www.challengerecords.com/products/14557966683247/In%20Your%20Own%20Sweet%20Way?tab=2
In Your Own Sweet Way
