Depart

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Depart
General information
Genre (s) Creative jazz
founding 1985, 2006
resolution 1994
Website http://www.departjazz.com/
Current occupation
saxophone
 Harry Sokal
double bass
 Heiri Känzig
Drums
 Martin Valihora

Depart is an alpine jazz trio that currently (2017) consists of the Austrian saxophonist Harry Sokal , the Swiss double bassist Heiri Känzig and the drummer Martin Valihora. Stylistically, it can be assigned to the Modern Creative .

history

Founded in 1985, the trio performed successfully on numerous stages of the European jazz scene up to 1994. Afterwards the three musicians separated to pursue their own projects. Harry Sokal toured as the lead saxophonist of the legendary Vienna Art Orchestra (of which he has been a member since its founding in 1977). Jojo Mayer, who originally came to Depart as a replacement for founding member Fredy Studer , moved the center of his activities to New York and from 1998 concentrated on working with his band Nerve , and Heiri Känzig was a sought-after guest musician, co-leader and leader in active in various formations.

In 2006 the band got together again and recorded the album Reloaded together , which received several attention in the specialist press. Another album followed in 2008. Mayer was replaced in 2013 by the Slovak drummer Martin Valihora.

stylistics

While Depart had a reputation as a “rock-jazz powerhouse” between 1985 and 1996 , according to Andreas Felber , since the reactivation the musicians “increasingly borrowed from folk music from all over the world”. The 2014 album Refire even features an adaptation of the Archduke Johann Jodler. According to the critic Robert Fischer , the music of the trio is "an outrageously happy and exciting virtuoso juggling with set pieces from the most varied of genres for the thesis ... that something like originality perhaps only exists on the basis of a broad tradition."

Discography

  • Depart ( Plainisphare 1987)
  • Letters from Nowhere (moers music, 1990)
  • Reloaded ( ACT 2006)
  • Mountain Messenger (ACT 2008)
  • Refire ( intact 2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In a discussion in the Phono-Forum (December 2006) it was said: "The communication between Sokal's unmistakable soprano and tenor sax contributions and the polyrhythmic bass drum insertions can only be raved about in superlatives."
  2. ↑ ORF Spielräume: “Der Berg ruft” , broadcast on July 22, 2014
  3. ^ Robert Fischer: Anything goes. In: Derselbe (Ed.) All that Jazz. The story of a music. Reclam publishing house, Stuttgart. 3rd, expanded and updated edition 2007, p. 417