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Q4 Orchestra - Lyons` Brood

by Mathias Rissi

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Al-Qâhira (Dedicated to the City of Cairo) 22:10
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Lyons` Brood (Dedicated to Jimmy Lyons) 38:06
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Reissue of LYONS` BROOD in memoriam:
Dedicated to the three outstanding Swiss jazz musicians trumpet player JÜRG GRAU and the altosax players WERNER LÜDI and KURT GRÄMIGER, with whom I had the privilege to work together in different groups, from duo to orchestra.
Mathias Rissi

LYONS` BROOD is Mathias Rissi`s homage to the alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, who died in 1986. The composition is held together as a large form by the classical sonata scheme. The motivic and harmonic exposition through the horns is taken over and cadenced by the basses and the piano. Now in the development the core theme can be developed in a breakneck altosax-piano duo from unisono to all variations of the tutti. The recapitulation of the harmonic-motivic germs leads into a percussive firework in which the piano and then the winds are switched on in reduction of the sound parameters towards a target point. After a fermata, the hymn-like, calm finale is a summary of the motivic and harmonic guiding ideas of LYONS` BROOD.
Guerino Mazzola, 1989

The individual and collective improvisations are well ordered and structured by the very cleverly arranged pieces composed by Rissi. A helpful supplement is the scaled-down score of LYONS` BROOD, a composition dedicated to Jimmy Lyons, which makes it easier to follow the development of the piece. Even though the participants speak a similar 'language' to a certain extent, and have experience with freely improvised jazz, the diversity of musical forms of expression sometimes leads to fascinating frictions and noticeable tensions, which are particularly evident in the numerous collective improvisations.
Nick Liebmann, 1990

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released October 15, 2020

Jürg Grau - trumpet
Peter Böhringer - trumpet
Hans Anliker - trombone
Werner Lüdi - alto saxophone
Kurt Grämiger - alto saxophone
Joseph Poffet - alto saxophone, bassclarinet
Heiri Baumgartner - alto-, baritone saxophones
Peter Schmid - baritone-, soprano saxophones, bassclarinet
Markus Stauss - baritone-, tenor saxophones
Guerino Mazzola - grand piano
Werner Broger - bass
Tomi Hirt - bass
Dani Schaffner - drums, percussion
Pit Gutmann - drums, percussion
Philipp Zehnder - percussion

Mathias Rissi - tenor-, alto saxophones, composer, conductor

Compositions by MATHIAS RISSI © 1990 SUISA

Recording and mastering:
November 25/26, 1989 Tonstudio Lussi, Basel, Switzerland
Mobiles Tonstudio Peter Pfister

Cover photo by Henry-Pierre Schultz


First release in 1990 by Creative Works Records CW 1018-3

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Mathias Rissi is a Swiss jazz musician whose focus is on contemporary jazz and free improvised music.

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