Johanna Summer & Jakob Manz: Cameo

Pianist Johanna Summer teams up with woodwinder Jakob Manz (on alto sax and recorder) on this lovely mix of duets. The interplay is conversant, and the collection of tunes inspired, ranging from Gustav Mahler’s elegiac  “Mahler neu(n)” to  Manz’s own  agitated “Turmoil” that has his recorder careening over the chords. Old World flavors float on  Summer’s ”Vistas” and the two get bright and cheery for “Flugzeuge Im Bauch” and urgent on a rustling “Hope Mechanism”. Modern sonatas.

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