Republic of Jazz: Chris Gall Trio - Cosmic Playground (GLM 2018)

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Chris Gall Trio - Cosmic Playground (GLM 2018)

Cosmic Playground, a barrier-free place of fantasy on an unexplored planet. Without limits and presets to play a game in one way or another. If you don't want to travel that far, you can also listen to the new program of Chris Gall's third trio album "Cosmic Playground", whose two predecessors appeared on the label Act.

Accompanied by bassist Henning Sieverts and his brother Peter on the drums, Chris Gall is able to create a grandiose collection of different soundtracks for wonderful films that only appear in the listener's head and are guaranteed not always the same. Titles such as "Arthur Dent Knows" or "follow the Milky Way, then turn left" have been released. Music that unfolds its magic the longer you listen to it. John Lennon's "Across the Universe" also hovers on his way to the star-picture Ursa minor. After his impressionist-like solo CD debut "Piano solo" and almost 250 concerts as a guest pianist with the world music band Quadro Nuevo, Chris Gall, who graduated from the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, has now returned to the Acoustic Piano Trio.

The biggest English jazz magazine Jazzwise: "Chris Gall's trio debut provides evidence that Jazz is alive and kicking in Germany" – and this is what Chris Gall still does today: hymnal hook-lines, powerful bass lines and fast-paced drum grooves. Wonderfully fresh jazz, free from the commercial corset, open, playful and boundless!