Julia Hülsmann Quartet

In the organizer's words:

5th Grand Piano Week

FEAT. HILDEGUNN ØISETH
Under The Surface
The busy Berlin pianist and composer has become an integral part of the German jazz scene. She has been playing her compositions, which are often based on lyrical works, with the award-winning Julia Hülsmann Trio for almost 30 years. She also enjoys inviting international guests to join her. Her album Scattering Poems (2003, ACT Music) with Norwegian singer Rebekka Bakken remained in the German jazz top ten for several weeks and received the German Jazz Award in Gold. The musician has since expanded her trio to form the Julia Hülsman Quartet. Their debut album Not Far from Here (2019, ECM Records) was honored with the German Jazz Award in 2021. Her last quartet release The Next Door was also released on ECM, which stereoplay described as "a world of musical intimacy" in October 2022, while Fono Forum wrote in November of the same year: "beautiful and almost out of this world".
For her new release Under The Surface, once again on ECM, Julia Hülsmann has brought a special guest into the studio alongside her now regular quartet: the Norwegian trumpeter and goat horn player Hildegund Øiseth, who recently added an exciting piece to our record collection with her own Garden On The Roof. Hülsmann's quartet with Uli Kempendorff on tenor saxophone, Marc Muellbauer on bass and Heinrich Köbberling on drums is joined here by Øiseth on five of the ten new pieces - adding a colorful fifth dimension to the already dazzling four-piece sound, even when the quartet plays alone.

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JULIA HÜLSMANN, piano
ULI KEMPENDORFF, tenor saxophone
MARC MUELLBAUER, Double Bass
HEINRICH KÖBBERLING, Drums
HILDEGUNN ØISETH, trumpet, goat horn