florian weber imaginary cycle size:OS Los Angeles / 1953

Los Angeles / 1953

To mark the 75th birthday of Salif Keita (August 25)

Features all-time-classic jazz/funk pieces such as ‘Jasper Country Man’ and ‘Harlem River Drive’

that brief window from the late Fifties to the Seventies when players representing every jazz era were alive and active—from Louis Armstrong to Albert Ayler

florian weber imaginary cycle size:OS Los Angeles / 1953Idiosyncratic, large scale and in its fundamental disposition one of a kind, Florian Webers Imaginary Cycle, conceived for the unique instrumentation of brass ensemble and piano, is a hybrid of multiple musical languages that seamlessly blends the harmonious with the oblique. Here Weber presents a cycle in four parts, plus an opening and an epilogue, in which the German pianist is joined by a group of four euphoniums, a trombone quartet as well as