The Story
Florian Ross CD is a playful declaration of faith in the diversity of musical possibilities & the unfolding of the individual within the collective
The pianist, composer, and bandleader Florian Ross of Cologne has revealed many different facets of his musical inner life on his previous releases. He is one of the most reliable of those representatives of recent jazz who resist pigeonholing but whose new album nevertheless, or precisely for that reason, always leaves one expectantly awaiting the next one. Ross combines the qualities of the experienced craftsman with the charm of an adventurer who likes to take risks, who never gets enough of trying new things and redefining himself. Each new album is a continuation of all the earlier ideas but also an utterly new beginning.
Florian Ross's new album Eight Ball & White Horse is once again dominated by the typical features of his musical perspective on the world: rich pieces dispense with a jazz schema limited to themes, bridges, and solos and instead tell stories; an incomparable way of integrating the solo into the composition as a genuinely individual form of expression; and his warm, friendly way of opening doors for the listener. Never before has he worked out the contrast between objectivity and dreaminess as clearly as on this new CD. 'Both sides can be found in me, but I don't consciously summon up this contrast,' Ross states. 'I am both a performing musician and composer. My previous CDs tended in one direction or the other. On the new CD I wanted to treat both aspects equally. I wanted the room for play to be greater for me and the other musicians than it was on the composed albums, but at the same time the composed music should be emphasized more than on the trio CDs. This CD documents the two sides coming together.'
Yet Eight Ball & White Horse is anything but an indecisive album; rather, it betrays the personal style and dramaturgy of a composer and bandleader who knows precisely what he wants. Nothing is left to chance, and even the momentary aspect, which is a bit overrepresented in jazz, settles organically into the flow of a complex album concept.
Track Listing
- Cry Out Loud
- Wollongong Sketch
- Rest, My Simple Mind
- Sorry, I Can't Do That
- Cull Or Keep
- Egberto
- Minor Mischief
- White Horse
- Run
- Aspects Of ...
- Quahog Wayland
Additional Details
Label: Intuition
Genre: Jazz
Run Time: 65:30 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 06/06/25
UPC: 750447340824
Description
Florian Ross CD is a playful declaration of faith in the diversity of musical possibilities & the unfolding of the individual within the collective
The pianist, composer, and bandleader Florian Ross of Cologne has revealed many different facets of his musical inner life on his previous releases. He is one of the most reliable of those representatives of recent jazz who resist pigeonholing but whose new album nevertheless, or precisely for that reason, always leaves one expectantly awaiting the next one. Ross combines the qualities of the experienced craftsman with the charm of an adventurer who likes to take risks, who never gets enough of trying new things and redefining himself. Each new album is a continuation of all the earlier ideas but also an utterly new beginning.
Florian Ross's new album Eight Ball & White Horse is once again dominated by the typical features of his musical perspective on the world: rich pieces dispense with a jazz schema limited to themes, bridges, and solos and instead tell stories; an incomparable way of integrating the solo into the composition as a genuinely individual form of expression; and his warm, friendly way of opening doors for the listener. Never before has he worked out the contrast between objectivity and dreaminess as clearly as on this new CD. 'Both sides can be found in me, but I don't consciously summon up this contrast,' Ross states. 'I am both a performing musician and composer. My previous CDs tended in one direction or the other. On the new CD I wanted to treat both aspects equally. I wanted the room for play to be greater for me and the other musicians than it was on the composed albums, but at the same time the composed music should be emphasized more than on the trio CDs. This CD documents the two sides coming together.'
Yet Eight Ball & White Horse is anything but an indecisive album; rather, it betrays the personal style and dramaturgy of a composer and bandleader who knows precisely what he wants. Nothing is left to chance, and even the momentary aspect, which is a bit overrepresented in jazz, settles organically into the flow of a complex album concept.
Track Listing
- Cry Out Loud
- Wollongong Sketch
- Rest, My Simple Mind
- Sorry, I Can't Do That
- Cull Or Keep
- Egberto
- Minor Mischief
- White Horse
- Run
- Aspects Of ...
- Quahog Wayland
Additional Details
Label: Intuition
Genre: Jazz
Run Time: 65:30 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 06/06/25
UPC: 750447340824
