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Matthias Spillmann Trio: Live at the Bird’s Eye Jazz Club

Read "Live at the Bird’s Eye Jazz Club" reviewed by Don Phipps


Matthias Spillmann's Live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club is a trumpet trio tour de force. Recorded live in Basel, Switzerland, Spillmann, bassist Andreas Lang and drummer Moritz Baumgärtner add a fascinating spin to five classics and one original number. The trio's simple format gives Spillmann plenty of room to energize the music, and his tone has a clarity of purpose which shines whether he's slurring notes or simply enunciating long legato phrases. On the two Ornette Coleman ...

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Ornette Coleman
saxophone, alto
Miles Davis
trumpet
Kenny Dorham
trumpet
Gil Evans
composer / conductor
Bert Joris
trumpet

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Live at the Bird’s...

Clean Feed Records
2019

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Unit Records
2013

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Unit Records
2012

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Pro Specie Rara

Unit Records
2010

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