Edgar Knecht – Personal Seasons (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:59 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The seasons had always been a source of inspiration for pianist Edgar Knecht. Whenever he thought about them, he couldn’t help ruminating: About the fleetingness of things. About the unique power of music to accompany us through all the different stages of life. About the challenge for the original trio to incorporate an additional musician. It therefore seemed apt to make the seasons the focal point for the group’s tenth anniversary album. So ‘Personal Seasons’ was not just another season cycle in the style of Vivaldi – but a turning point in the work of Edgar Knecht.
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Edgar Knecht – Dance On Deep Waters (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:32 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The critics just can’t hide their excitement when it comes to Edgar Knecht. “Jazz hasn’t been this original and stimulating for a long time”, one of them enthused; “This music is simply stunning”, respected monthly Jazzpodium confessed; and Germany’s biggest quality newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: “This is truly unheard-of music.” And truly, the German pianist and his band of bassist Rolf Denecke and drum-duo Stephan Emig and Tobias Schulte succeed in creating something genuinely new: A fusion of the vivacity of jazz and world music with the elegance of classical composition and the depth and clarity of ancient folk melodies.
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