Julia Hülsmann: Not Far From Here

Group - Julia Hulsmann Quartet

1 The Art Of Failing 2 Le Mistral 3 This Is Not America 4 Weit Weg 5 Streiflicht 6 Not Far From Here 7 No Game 8 Einschub 9 If I Had A Heart 10 Colibri 65 11 You Don’t Have To Win Me Over 12 Wrong Song 13 This Is Not America

The album "Not Far From Here" introduces the new group of the award-winning pianist Julia Hülsmann, in which her long-standing trio with Marc Muellbauer and Heinrich Köbberling (they have been playing together for 17 years) is expanded to a quartet by the Berlin saxophonist Uli Kempendorff In Kempendorff's game are "So much suppleness. So much stubbornness," the magazine Jazzthetik stated. He brings fresh energy to the concept of the Hülsmann Group. Each member of the quartet contributes their own compositions, with Julia herself contributing five pieces to the album. The repertoire is complemented by a contemporary cover of "This Is Not America", David Bowie's hit single from the 1980s (co-composed by Bowie, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays), which can be heard here in a quartet version and a solo piano variation The album, which was recorded in March 2019 at La Buissonne studios in southern France, will be released in time for an extensive European tour of the Hülsmann Quartet. ECM50 events at the London Jazz Festival and at Flagey in Brussels are also scheduled

Price: $18.98