New Impressions of Debussy

by Florian Dohrmann - Blank Page

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1.	Twilight Dance 06:36	info	buy track
2.	La Soirée dans Grenade 04:50	info	buy track
3.	Clair de Lune 07:23	info	buy track
4.	Passepied 07:58	info	buy track
5.	Lindaraja 03:30	info	buy track
6.	Jimbo's Lullaby 05:57	info	buy track
7.	L'Après-midi d‘un Faune 05:43	info	buy track
8.	La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin 06:01	info	buy track
9.	Air Dancer 04:31	info	buy track
10.	Paris - Dakar 01:24	info	buy track
11.	Petit Golliwog 06:49	info	buy track
12.	Valse Blue 06:24	info	buy track
13.	Pagoda Dream 03:14	info	buy track

about

The radio is on. A piece for solo piano. Harmonies and
themes full of images and very lyrical. An unknown
recording by Bill Evans ? - No, the host announces a piece
by Debussy: ”La fille aux cheveux de lin“.

This moment inspired Florian Dohrmann and gave him the
notion to adapt compositions of Debussy for a jazz quartet
and to invent them anew.

Debussy died in Paris on March 25,1918. He is considered
to be one of the most important pioneers of modern music.
At the 1889 world exhibition in Paris, Debussy hears the
exotic sounds of the Asian region like the gamelan music of
Indonesia. This encounter with foreign cultures and their
ideal of wavering sounds will become characteristic of his
way of composing.
He develops his spherical sound patterns out of pentatonic, diatonic scales and by abolishing functional
tunes. Contemporaries compare his style to the impressionist painters Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin.

You can hardly imagine a musical language like Bill Evans’ without the impressionism of Debussy’s music that
draws from the most diverse cultures. Recreating impressions of Debussy in a jazz connection seems to be a
consistent development. The name of the project ”Blank Page - New Impressions of Debussy” stands for the
way of operating in arranging the music. If you refrain from prejudice and thought control, the blank sheet
is just the starter to create something new from Debussy’s motifs and tunes. Sometimes it is an obvious
resemblance, sometimes it is so far away that you might only feel Debussy’s spirit a hundred years after his
death.

credits

released March 19, 2019

Florian Dohrmann - double bass
Joachim Staudt - alto sax & bass clarinet
Christoph Neuhaus - guitar christophneuhaus.bandcamp.com
Lars Binder - drums

Recorded
July 28th - 30th 2018 at Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg/Germany
by Adrian von Ripka

Mixed & mastered
by Adrian von Ripka

Produced
by Florian Dohrmann

Photopraphy
Kaupo Kikkas
www.kaupokikkas.com
Sven Götz
www.svengoetz.com

Layout
Florian Dohrmann & Patrick Tompert

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Florian Dohrmann Tübingen, Germany

Florian Dohrmann studied jazz at the Music-Highschool in Stuttgart.

He founded a number of bands, to put his musical ideas into practice.

1997 saw the creation of the David Orlowsky Trio.

Until 2019 they produced 6 CDs with Sony Classical and were awarded 2 Echo prizes.

Now Florian Dohrmann turns back to his roots and introduces his new jazz project ”Blank Page - New Impressions of Debussy”. ... more

floriandohrmann.com

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