Allaboutjazz introduces the album with the following sentence “Ulrich Drechsler asks and answers the question: how can the saddest music in the world be delivered with so much hope?” [...]
Credit to Drechsler for creating a sincere and honest album. The pure and simple melodies shine through without nonsense. There’s also lots of good interplay and elegant soloing from [...]
Elegant and quiet chamber jazz. Drechsler has switched from saxophone to bass clarinet, and this shapes the soundscape. Drawing beautiful melodic lines with such a rough instrument brings about a [...]
Drechlser and Gustavsen are musical twin souls… An hour of extraordinarily delightful melodic jazz of very high quality. Drechsler has a remarkably beautiful bass clarinet sound. Tor [...]
What a sound! What moods! … an utterly wonderful record. Tord Gustavsen is known as one of our country’s major jazz pianists. Here, he lends his services to the extraordinarily talented [...]
Credit to Drechsler for creating a sincere and honest album. The pure and simple melodies shine through without nonsense. There’s also lots of good interplay and elegant soloing from [...]
Humans & Places follows Drechsler’s loving tribute to Thelonious Monk on the 2004 disc The Monk In All Of Us, where his bass clarinet conjured the spirit of Eric Dolphy. On this quartet [...]
