Spiritual Jazz, a powerful experience, composed and performed by Muriel Grossmann Quartet. Irresistible mixture of post hard Bop, modal and avantgarde Jazz.

7 MP3 Songs in this album (46:02) !
Related styles: Jazz: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz: Contemporary Jazz, Featuring Saxophone

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When the vital energies work their way through a group of musicians, the psychological experience
is of inner joy that becomes greater then the sum of the individually invested parts. The images are not
ordered to present a well-known picture of a familiar subject. What occur in this music are combinations of
contrasting rising and falling light and sound substances, which dart in completely unexpected directions. The
images will whirl in spiral through an unlimited space without ever seeming to be hampered by any arbitrary
limits. Music of the moment makes the whole, or as Muriel Grossmann puts it: âWe were playing with a concept,
creating organic unity.â The complete musicianship, evidenced by the quartet members on this record, can
be set down to the fact that each member is aware not only of their own personal needs, but are conscious
of being part of a living productive organism, which not only fulfils the needs of its members but provides
endless pleasure and stimulation for the listener.

Austrian Alto and Soprano saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann is widening her musical
commitment and bold explorations, creating urgent and elevating music. With singular imagination Muriel
Grossmann is a player and composer with a blend of traditional and visionary, absolutely explosive
throughout; music here is the case in point. The Creation of ever-evolving shapes moving in multidirectional
ways; open structures, giving the feeling that the process of making music is an end in itself and not just the
means of obtaining a perfectly finished product. In the last years Muriel Grossmann has been performing and
recording with such artists as Wolfgang Reisinger, Christian Lillinger, Johannes Fink and leading her own
projects. She was just recently selected for best jazz record of the year in the category âmillor nova proposta
2009â in Jazz Magazine Jaç (no. 30, Feb/March 2010) for Cd Quartet (Dreamlandrecords, DR 03 CD).

âThe suite Birth of the Mystery is about elaborating the idea of a joyful birth in a musical way. Creation
is coming through us but not from us. There are six important states of mind. Strength is about will power.
Trust is about, all that comes to you is meant for you, so trust and your actions will be good. Breathing is
about the essential part of being conscious as the breath flows, to use the power of the now. Patience is
about the peacefulness in non-action. Opening, as in everyday life, is about being open to give and to receive
compassion and love; and Slide is about letting the things fall right into your hands to Welcome it, so the
joy can ease you.â

The Quartet is composed of Radomir Milojkovic on guitar, who both as accompanist and soloist, has
sophisticated sensibility and high-level of consistency; with the drums of Marko Jelaca, an orchestral continuum
of rhythmic irregularities that nevertheless mark the most rigorous metric, and bassist David Marroquin, who
with same sense of freedom always brings a wide range of rhythms and sounds. This music is universal; they
compose quartet to the power of four, as well as a quartet four times unique.

Each composition is a study in itself, the elaboration of the musical concepts through harmony, melody
and rhythm. âI was mostly writing in the nighttime, while everybody was asleep. The stillness and peace of
the night were guiding meâ.

Austrian alto, soprano saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann, born in Paris, grew up in Vienna, where she studied barrock music on flute. Muriel Grossmann played and recorded with various rhythm and blues, funk, world music and jazz bands and artists, among them Christoph Kurzmann, Shani Ben Canar Orchestra, Hans Tschiritsch, Geri Schuller and the Original Brothers among others. Muriel Grossmann composed and performed for the film âSued-Nord-Westâ. Muriel Grossmann played in Spain, Holland, Germany, England, Ireland, Greece leading her own bands. She recorded and performed with Joachim Kuehn, Rolf Kuehn, Wolfgang Reisinger, Christian Lillinger, Johannes Fink, Martin Klingeberg, Mark Vinci, Molly Duncan, among others, and Muriel Grossmann Barcelona Quartet featuring Radomir Milokovic on guitar, David Marroquin on contrabass and Marko Jelaca on drums, recording and performing original compositions.