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Michael Wollny - XXXX (with Emile Parisien, Tim Lefebvre & Christian Lillinger) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 2, 2022

Michael Wollny - XXXX (with Emile Parisien, Tim Lefebvre & Christian Lillinger) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 44:44 minutes | 861 MB
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: ACT Music, Official Digital Download

This story begins with just one sound, originating in the place which Berlin jazz people think of as their living room, the A-Trane. Back in December 2019, the club was host to four leading figures in today’s improvised music scene, who turned this cozy space into their blank canvas, their research lab. In eight sets over four nights, piano phenomenon Michael Wollny, re-inventor of the soprano saxophone Emile Parisien, electric bass icon Tim Lefebvre, and that free spirit of the drum kit Christian Lillinger were given free rein.

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Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive II (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 26, 2023

Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive II (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 49:18 minutes | 982 MB
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative, Vocal Jazz | Label: ACT Music, Official Digital Download

Four is a winner: that was the unanimous opinion of critics and audiences alike on the first album from German-Swedish supergroup 4 Wheel Drive. The eponymous debut disc from this band of bandleaders went straight to the top spot as best-selling jazz album in Germany for2019. And the media didn’t hold back with their praise either: “Four first-league jazz musicians with pure joy of playing and a love of good pop music”, said ZDF’s “heute-journal” about this spirited and enjoyable group, which combines trombonist/singer Nils Landgren, pianist Michael Wollny, bassist/cellist Lars Danielsson and drummer Wolfgang Haffner. AllAboutJazz, a leading American jazz website, asked whether this album might be worth adding to a listener’s collection, and answered the question succinctly:”4 sure”.

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Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive II (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 29, 2023

Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive II (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 274 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 120 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:49:19
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative, Vocal Jazz | Label: ACT Music

Four is a winner: that was the unanimous opinion of critics and audiences alike on the first album from German-Swedish supergroup 4 Wheel Drive. The eponymous debut disc from this band of bandleaders went straight to the top spot as best-selling jazz album in Germany for2019. And the media didn’t hold back with their praise either: “Four first-league jazz musicians with pure joy of playing and a love of good pop music”, said ZDF’s “heute-journal” about this spirited and enjoyable group, which combines trombonist/singer Nils Landgren, pianist Michael Wollny, bassist/cellist Lars Danielsson and drummer Wolfgang Haffner. AllAboutJazz, a leading American jazz website, asked whether this album might be worth adding to a listener’s collection, and answered the question succinctly:”4 sure”.

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Christian Brückner & Michael Wollny - Heinrich Heine - Traumbilder (2021) Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 29, 2021

Christian Brückner & Michael Wollny - Heinrich Heine - Traumbilder (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 186 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 119 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:49:53
Jazz, Spoken Word | Label: ACT Music

The dubbing spokesman Christian Brückner (among others for Robert De Niro) and Michael Wollny prove to be the perfect couple to let Heinrich Heine sound again. With aesthetic flair and imagination, Michael picks up the mood and gesture of the poems and prepares the musical breeding ground for Brückner's haunting performance of the texts in mostly completely free improvisations. Voice and piano intertwine and inspire each other in the dialogue of recitation and real-time composition.

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Michael Musillami Trio - Block Party (2023) Music

Posted by Pisulik at Sept. 4, 2023

Michael Musillami Trio - Block Party (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 245 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 100 MB | 00:43:47
Jazz | Label: Playscape Recordings

Block Party is veteran guitarist/composer Michael Musillami’s tenth Playscape Recordings release with his flagship trio, featuring bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller. Block Party celebrates the trio’s 20-year history as a working, touring, and recording ensemble. Jazz critic Robert Iannapollo writes from Block Party’s liner notes, “On December 18, 2002 they went into the studio and recorded their first album as a trio, Beijing, a superb album that got a lot of positive reviews. Released in 2003, not many gigs ensued in the U.S. However, in March of 2004, the trio toured Europe promoting the album and they started building a following.”

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Wollny, Kruse, Schaefer - [em] 3 (2008) Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 3, 2021

The exciting Berlin trio Michael Wollny / Eva Kruse / Eric Schaefer present their third album: no easy task, after all of the last few years’ critical praise that has accompanied the two previous albums they recorded for ACT, and the same critical acclaim has followed their live performances.
At its best, and in its greatest moments, jazz is the art that unearths the universal elements that lie buried in each individual. The ad-hoc arrangements of many jazz recordings stand in stark contrast to this aspiration, and to escape the curse of the smallest common denominator, it’s also necessary to have a fixed formation in jazz. Yet especially in German jazz, groups that remain together and come out with new CDs over a longer period of time are the exception…

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Michael Wollny feat. Eric Schaefer & Christian Weber - Wartburg (Live) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at May 29, 2018

Michael Wollny feat. Eric Schaefer & Christian Weber - Wartburg (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 48:46 minutes | 959 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

“Wartburg” fizzes and shimmers with all the acuity of Michael Wollny's senses and his protean capacity to be alive to the possibilities and the magic of the moment. This is improvising at the limit, life seen through a dream. The album also documents a first-ever encounter of his trio with Emile Parisien, arguably the most influential and original voice on soprano sax today. A unique moment in contemporary jazz.

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Michael Wollny feat. Eric Schaefer & Christian Weber - Oslo (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at May 29, 2018

Michael Wollny feat. Eric Schaefer & Christian Weber - Oslo (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 57:05 minutes | 1.14 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

With Oslo, Michael Wollny and his trusty rhythm section (bassist Christian Weber and drummer Eric Schaefer) confirm that their project is as solid as ever. Recorded at Rainbow Studio in the Norwegian capital in September 2017, the album confirms that Wollny is one of the most skilful German jazz pianists of his generation. An improviser, here he deploys his staple piano style, with plenty of spaces and silences. His playing carries a sincere romanticism which never feels overdone, and a muted tonality.

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Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive (2019) Music

Posted by Domestos at July 17, 2019

Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson & Wolfgang Haffner - 4 Wheel Drive (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 287.62 Mb | 50:43 | Covers
Vocal Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | Label: ACT Music - ACT 9875-2

It scarcely feels necessary to mention the pre-eminent status of all four of these artists, because that is evident from hearing the music. When Nils Landgren brings such feeling to his own melody “Le chat sur le toit”, or when Michael Wollny dazzles with the blues-infused piano solo in “Lady Madonna”; when “Polygon” opens with a bass intro from Lars Danielsson, or when Wolfgang Haffner sets up the power groove to propel “4WD”, then it’s clear what’s happening: four leading figures in European jazz who know each other well and who have appreciated each other’s work for many years have now got together. True, their paths have crossed many times before, and in all kinds of configurations.

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Michael Wollny - Nachtfahrten (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Dec. 10, 2018

Michael Wollny - Nachtfahrten (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 47:04 minutes | 887 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

This release owes its original inspiration to a book published in 2013 entitled 'Nachtmeerfahrten' (Sea Journeys by Night), which takes the reader over to the dark side of romanticism, to a world of fantasy, of eerie shadows, and things that go bump in the night. Producer Siggi Loch edited the 'Meer' (sea) part out of the title, which therefore became 'Nachtfahrten' (Night Journeys), which suits this pianist, who is a creature of the nocturnal realm. He feels very much at home in a world of grey cats and blurred outlines, where the contrasting emotions of the moment can leave all rational expectations behind; this is a backdrop which is alive with possibility, but also with trepidation.

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