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The bass player
Ed Schuller and the saxophonist Mack Goldsbury are sitiing on the
platform at Savignyplatz, Berlin, and waiting for the last underground.
Where to? Who knows! Musicians of their calibre get no rest, they're
always on the road. They feel at home wherever they might be caught
up in the joyful spirit of playing. They've just got back from the
A-Trane, one of their favourite living rooms. The two of them have
recently given an extraordinary performance there.Those who have
so much of the necessary equipment such as these two, who also know
each other for so long, dare to choose the highest form of communication
that jazz knows: the dialogue!Apart from which they span their bows
from Brooklyn, New York - their musical cradles - where they once
earned their spurs - into the Berlin of present times, into an artistic
future which includes expressive moments of globalization. The cry
of the Muezzin is only a stone's throw away. They prefer to work
with a variety of stylistic means and their consistent transformation
into their own individual forms of expressive possibilities and
ways of playing; because their goals do not end with that worldwide
monoform, neoclassicism, the mainstream jazz of the traditionalists.However
the two who stand on stage are not only striving for expression,
but in their tête à tête, they grapple with each
other, attempt to move each other. Their sovereignty over their
craft goes without saying: the bass lays down its lines with rhythmic-melodic
refinement, but also emphasizing the earthy; the horn - sometimes
urged forward, then again completely selfsufficient - goes on a
journey driven by its power to give shape, on the untiring search
for new, flowing forms. In this way a lot of space is created, made
pregnant with their surprising ideas, a thousand and one stories
are turned into poetry.The Art of this Duo does not only turn itself
on, but also the intuitive listener gets his money's worth, starts
off on one of his dream trips: new doors open, through which he
can confidently step. For no doubt a process such as this requires
wilfulness and the courage to take risks, for both the player and
the listener.
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