{"id":7115,"date":"2025-11-22T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:47:33","slug":"christian-elsasser-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/christian-elsasser-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Els\u00e4sser – The Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Streaming here!<\/a><\/strong><\/span>“<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Buy CD here!<\/a><\/strong><\/span>“<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Webpage Christian Els\u00e4sser”<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Christian Els\u00e4sser (Piano) – Niels Klein (Sax) – Tim Collins (Vibraphone) – Henning Sieverts (Bass)
\nFabian Arends (Drums)<\/p>\n

Life is change. At its best, it gives rise to inventive jazz\u2014as in Christian Els\u00e4sser\u2019s new album The Move.<\/p>\n

After a long phase working primarily as a composer, arranger and conductor for big bands and orchestras Christian Els\u00e4sser reveals a particularly intimate, chamber-like side on his new quintet album.<\/p>\n

\u201eWhile working on the music a lot of changes were about to happen in my personal life. The most crucial one was that my wife and I decided to leave Munich behind and create a new home for our family in the country-side.\u201c This emotional shift\u2014filled with excitement, nostalgia, and the magic of new beginnings\u2014runs like a thread throughout the album.<\/p>\n

The choice of musicians and the associated instrumentation had a decisive influence on the realization of the compositional ideas. \u201eFor this recording I invited four long time friends with whom I have worked in various musical contexts \u2013 but never in exactly this lineup. When mentally assembling the band\u2019s sound, I was imme-diately fascinated by the many colorful possibilities that arose from the combination of instruments.\u201c<\/p>\n

With The Move, Christian Els\u00e4sser creates a musical diary of change: a journey full of farewells and new be-ginnings, shaped by the growth of a family and the quiet yet profound changes that life brings over time. It explores movement in its deeply rooted facets\u2014from the life-changing experience of relocating to a new place to the small and significant steps toward a nature-oriented way of life. Pieces like Birds, Morgentau, and Wie-genlied create sonic landscapes drawing on the rich palette of modern jazz. Other original compositions, such as Kanon and Circles & Corners, reflect Els\u00e4sser\u2019s inventive structural concepts, already hinted at in their titles. Likewise, Short Story No. 2 follows a self-imposed challenge: to fit entirely on a single sheet of music\u2014quite a contrast to his large-ensemble arrangements, which typically require dozens of pages.<\/p>\n

Christian Els\u00e4sser is one of the most versatile voices of contemporary Jazz in Europe. He is regularly commissi-oned by top ensembles such as the Metropole Orkest (three-time Grammy winner), the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, and all four German radio big bands (WDR, HR, NDR, SWR). He has worked with a wide range of acclaimed artists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling, Aaron Parks and Mike Stern. Els\u00e4sser is also a pro-fessor of Composition and Jazz Piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Streaming here!“ “Buy CD here!“ “Webpage Christian Els\u00e4sser” Christian Els\u00e4sser (Piano) – Niels Klein (Sax) – Tim Collins (Vibraphone) – Henning Sieverts (Bass) Fabian Arends (Drums) Life is change. At its best, it gives rise to inventive jazz\u2014as in Christian Els\u00e4sser\u2019s new album The Move. After a long phase working primarily as a composer, arranger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edition-collage","category-fine-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7115"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}