Louis Sclavis: clarinets
Dominique Pifarély: violin
Vincent Courtois: cello
 

Julia Hülsmann: piano
Marc Muellbauer: double bass
Heinrich Köbberling: drums

Štěpánka Balcarová — trumpet, flugelhorn
Luboš Soukup — tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Vít Křišťan — piano
Max Mucha — double bass
Grzegorz Masłowski — drums

For their 5th album, German trumpeter Julian and pianist Roman Wasserfuhr are in Brooklyn. The rise of the Wasserfuhrs has been meteoric, and “Landed in Brooklyn“ documents another important stage of it.

This three CD box brings together music recorded for ECM by Eberhard Weber’s band Colours: the albums “Yellow Fields” (1975), “Silent Feet” (1977) and “Little Movements” (1980). Throughout the six years of its existence, Colours was one of the most popular ensembles on the European jazz touring circuit – although Weber has always stressed the group’s conceptual distance from a jazz mainstream. Many idiomatic elements were combined in Colours’ stylistic mix. The group’s sound-world consciously extended the palette proposed by “The Colours of Chlo?”, Weber’s prize-winning ECM disc of 1974. As the innovative German bassist explains in the liner notes, “there were various aspects to the [Chlo?] session, from the reflective European or chamber music side of the writing, to some jazz-rock and a kind of pictorial play with minimalism. Eventually, all these aspects would be developed in Colours.” 

Ralph Towner: classical and 12-string guitars