Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck – The Brahms Project

Thu, May 01

Kurt Rosenwinkel — guitar Jean-Paul Brodbeck — piano Lukas Traxel — bass Jorge Rossy — drums Rosenwinkel and Brodbeck team up again on the heels of their successful first collaboration, “The Chopin Project.” This time, with their telepathic quartet intact, they tackle the music of Johannes Brahms—the Brahms Project. Brodbeck's new arrangements take up Johannes Brahms's yearning melodies and classical-romantic harmonic structures and find a new form of expression with these familiar and carefully selected compositions. The "folk style" to which Brahms felt connected becomes a refreshing jazz sound in which the ritual element of Hungarian dances is revived, as is the touching beauty of the late piano pieces. Rosenwinkel's long expanding phrases open up a new world of sound and emotion and the expressiveness of his playing come to the fore in a powerful way on this recording. In addition, Brodbeck's selected orchestrations with the Traxel-Rossy rhythm duo move within an extremely song- serving framework. We experience earthy groove- emphasised music upon which improvisations expand. Brahms' famous lullaby rounds off the programme and canonises this extraordinary repertoire. If the total amount of beverages purchased by the party does not meet the minimum, a $15 drink/food minimum is charged per person in the party, per set. Important Notices: If you do not check in by 15 minutes into the start of the set, we reserve the right to resale your seats with no refund. Tickets for this performance are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, a one-time transfer to a future show of equal value will be accepted. The transfer must be requested 24 hours before the start of the performance.