Saxophonist of austrian origin, Muriel Grossmann, is certainly a rising star of European free jazz. She offers us today a trio with guitarist Radomir Milojkovic and bassist Chema Pellico. Free jazz, of course, but turned away from energy breaking into introspective chants, taking shape with the will of free time. Listening, in fact, remains the unifying element of music: each of them take time to lend an ear to play with each other: Listening and reverie. The improvisations are emerging in hushed environment felted like a picture of art , the fuzzy compete with the sharpness. The sound of alto saxophone Muriel Grossmann is both full and incisive and tender, like the play of the guitarist ,who distills his notes by clusters, with a predilection for pizzicato that he beads like a necklace of pearls. Curiously, and against the tide maybe, if this free jazz is a free music through its vital essence – by its spontaneous form and abstraction of harmonies - it is not by the overall sound of the trio: each musician consciously avoids the clichés specific to their instrument through the history of New Thing: no hoarse cry on saxophone, no parasite sound on the bass (strings, just the strings), no noisy experimental electric guitar. A sort of free jazz...of velvet...Marc Sarrazy, Impro Jazz Magazine, france, 2010
Dreamlandrecords 2008
…Jazz album with all the letters, proposing rigorously intelligent things. The great touch of Grossmann, who without being heterodox, includes elements and imputs that enrich the whole. German Lazaro, Quadernos de Jazz, Madrid, Jan/Feb 2009.
Enigmatic compositions in the hands of a luxury saxophonist. Marti Farre, Jac Magazine, Barcelona, Feb/Mar 2009.
Dreamlandrecords 2008
...the superb album ' Here and Now ', a recording with the drummer Uno P.; gentle and energetic at the same time; beautiful, Xicu Lluy, spain, 2008
...recorded an interesting "Here and Now" (Dreamlandrecords DR 02) in duet with the iconoclastic drummer Uno P...Marc Sarrazy, Impro Jazz Magazine, france, 2010
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Austrian alto, soprano saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann, born
in Paris, grew up in Vienna, where she studied barrock music on flute. Muriel Grossmann
played and recorded with various rhythm and blues, funk, world music and jazz
bands and artists, among them Christoph Kurzmann, Shani Ben Canar Orchestra,
Hans Tschiritsch, Geri Schuller and the Original Brothers among others.
Muriel Grossmann composed and performed for the film “Sued- Nord-West”.
Muriel Grossmann played in Spain, Holland, Germany, England, Ireland, Greece
leading her own bands.
She recorded and performed with Joachim Kuehn, Rolf Kuehn, Wolfgang
Reisinger, Christian Lillinger, Johannes Fink, Martin Klingeberg, Mark Vinci,
Molly Duncan, among others, and Muriel Grossmann Barcelona Quartet
featuring Radomir Milokovic on guitar, David Marroquin on contrabass
and Marko Jelaca on drums, recording and performing original compositions.
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..Hello Muriel, how are you? Hope all is very well for you. I send to you 2 titles extracted from my dvd Live in Paris I hope that you will like, kisses from Paris Jean-Marie
Taugt mir total, was du machst! Wer weiss, vielleicht können wir ja wiedermal gemeinsam spielen,wenn du in wien bist.Lang ists her und es hat sich bei uns viel getan in der zwischenzeit..Great music and sound!
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