Henrik Walsdorff Discography of CDs

Henrik Walsdorff CD discography Recording information: Kulturhaus Mitte, Berlin, Germany (07/02/2002-07/04/2002). Personnel: John Schröder (guitar); Henrik Walsdorff (alto saxophone). Liner Note Author: John Schröder.

Henrik Walsdorff music CDs Liner Note Author: Wolf Kampmann. Recording information: 11/04/2009-11/05/2009. Personnel: Jan Roder (double bass); Rudi Mahall (bass clarinet); Henrik Walsdorff (alto saxophone); Oliver Steidle (drums). Audio Mixers: Christian Betz; Oliver Steidle.

Henrik Walsdorff albums Recording information: Aufsturz, Berlin, Germany (10/07/2005). Personnel: Gerold Genáler (double bass); Henrik Walsdorff (alto saxophone). Liner Note Author: Gerold Genáler.

Henrik Walsdorff CD discography European bassist Fabian Gisler has three sides to his music -- free improvised, introspective, and modal neo-bop. Each of these components are lumped together in big chunks, comprising the programming on this CD with his quartet. Gisler, whose playing resembles no particular influence, is clearly a thematic leader whose jazz cannot be generalized, yet borrows from several styles of the modern ilk. If you read the witty liner notes, you see he is intrigued by incessant liars, the concept of a hole, and rambling B.S. These aspects of mortal human life translate into a creative improvised music that borrows from past American traditions forged with contemporary classicism, and an intellectualism that is at once serious and painstakingly deliberate. The first four pieces express the spontaneous aspect, with three being snippets. The longer piece "The Inner Storm" acts like it wants so badly to grow up into a bop adult, but is throttled. In the short forms time floats, and anything threatening is minimalized. Of the following three compositions, a lighter, sweet, succinct component frames the lovely ballad "Sans un Mot," but the sun is down for good during the free and sparse "Fields of Darkness" closed in by the shuffling brush work of drummer John Schröder, probing piano from Colin Vallon, and flighty tenor sax via Henrik Walsdorff. "A New Life" has Gisler's plucked bass overdubbed on top of bowed harmonic sawing begging Walsdorff's tenor to go away. The final three tracks are in-concert performances showcasing contemporary jazz with a consistent rhythmic center, and will for many be the most listenable music. "Starsky's Delight" reflects the kinetic and lively New York post-bop sound, "Freedom Speech" recalls the Jan Garbarek-Keith Jarrett ECM concept with Jim Pepper-like Native American flourishes, and ...

Henrik Walsdorff discography Now this is free jazz. "Free" because each of the instruments here -- John Schröder's guitar and piano, Henrik Walsdorff's alto saxophone, and Uli Jenneáen's drums and percussion instruments -- are liberated from their defined roles as melody, rhythm, and harmony instruments, and are instead placed in open association with one another, granting and taking away ...

Henrik Walsdorff songs Track Listing of songs: Commander Kirk; Esther; Unbekannt, Unbenannt; Sidewalk; Country Song; Ingeborg; Traumschiff; Joe; Rosa Lu; Opa Schneegans; Zoobrücke; Nettlingen;

Though the three players on this album all have strong backgrounds in the European free improvisation scene, the Most's Narrenhände finds tenor saxophonist Henrik Walsdorff, bassist Jan Roder, and drummer Björn Lücker stepping back from the outermost reaches of the style. These nine pieces are quite accessible for all but the most free jazz averse, with ...