CHRIS GALL

Music:

Member Since: 8/7/2007
Band Website: chrisgallmusic.com
Band Members: Chris Gall - piano
Enik - vocals
Marcel Kroemker - bass
Peter Gall - drums

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VIDEO-CLIP "21st Century Jesus"

Influences:
IF NOT JAZZ, THEN WHAT...?

"A musical balancing act, juggling with jazz, elegance, pop-art and energy –
tylistically somewhere in between E.S.T., Tom Waits and Brad Mehldau..."

Live on Tour-Pics:

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From CD Liner-Notes :

Chris Gall laughed when he was congratulated on his debut album for ACT’s Young German Jazz series. “Actually I’m not a pure jazz newcomer. There are a lot of other things that I like too.” Hard to say what he meant by that. Perhaps he was referring to his schooling in classical piano that began in Germany when he was five, or his studies in Boston at the Berkeley College of Music. Perhaps it’s simply a music career in which jazz was always a starting point but never the end-all. Gall’s musical inspiration comes from every corner of the world: out of Boston’s musical melting pot, out of Brazil exploring the Favelas of Sao Paolo, out of India where he and sitar star Shakir Khan proceeded to dust off Euro-Indian jazz. And you can include the loud rock stages in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, intimate jazz clubs, and theatre revues. From all these places, the 32 year old took what he needed to drive his music forward: strength. “Sometimes I even find myself somehow crawling into the piano,” says Gall. In Everybody Knows But Me he surges forward with such force that it would make rockers weak-kneed with shame, and jazz musicians wide-eyed with wonder at how wild and danceable their music could be. But there’s even more: funk, groove, pop, large gestures and small arabesques. Gall has composed all the pieces on Climbing Up, compositions that are trimmed of all excess with every element to the point and in its proper place. In the melancholy Life Is Like Weather, for instance, he transposes the title into the motto of its last bars by leaping from the rain to the sun, from elegiac strains to funk and swing. It’s easy. “Life is like weather,” – the clouds can be spontaneously swept away. And while Chris Gall would rather contemplate his music than genre border lines, with Enik he has grabbed hold of a singer who for his part leaps over borders. The charismatic young singer gave his celebrated CD debut with “The Seasons in Between”, a mixture of avant-garde pop and electronic rock, but he also performs the songs of the well-known Austrian cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Drummer Peter Gall and bassist Marcel Krömker have their own sounds, but nevertheless have no problem fitting into Gall’s musical concept. Many young German jazz musicians have found camaraderie with their European colleagues in their search for truth within the various styles, the search for their own individual sound, the search for something that is truly new. On Climbing Up it sounds like at least one has found what he was looking for.

Record Label: ACT (release: Feb 22, 2008)
Type of Label: Indie