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Muriel GrossmannGolden Rule

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Jazz

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Golden Rule11:26
Core11:21
Promise9:12
Direction10:18
Traneing In18:54
Trane12:07
Light8:09

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    Cover of Golden Rule, 2018-11-28, VinylGolden Rule
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    RR GEMS – RRGEMS05Estonia2018Estonia2018
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    Reviews

    • Christianen's avatar
      Christianen
      Such a great jazz record. Very impressed of Grossmann's music, also great sound and packaging.
      • tranquilbreed's avatar
        tranquilbreed
        Total Coltrane worship at its best , inspired by but never insulting to the great mans legacy of exciting/spiritual music .. wonderfully recorded by a group of musicians with a clear and very real understanding of the the meaning of spiritual Jazz!!
        • tony65's avatar
          tony65
          I got a mail from RRgems, you can now pre -order the 2nd pressing out 9th March.
          • k65groove's avatar
            k65groove
            Killer record missed it first time won’t miss it this time, out next month I believe
            • klauswebner's avatar
              klauswebner
              reprint of golden rule confirmed by rrgems. for those who can wait. hope i can.
              • hex_sounds's avatar
                hex_sounds
                reissue early next year ive been promised. after new lp is out.
                • MethVSChef's avatar
                  MethVSChef
                  Muriel recently announced on her Instagram that a vinyl reissue is definitely coming in 2020 !
                  • 44kb's avatar
                    44kb
                    Brilliant album. Great pressing and beautiful packaging. I was fortunate to purchase this when it came out. I hope that if this is reissued that the additional sales materialize as Muriel Grossmann deserves the royalties for this absolute classic.
                    • JLongo12's avatar
                      JLongo12
                      Please please please repress this masterpiece! There is far too much demand for this to be one pressing only.
                      • murielsaxo's avatar
                        murielsaxo
                        DOWNBEAT, USA, Dec 2018, p. 64 by Andrew Jones
                        ****

                        The phrase “spiritual jazz” packs a promise and a threat. It plays into a mythology about the existence of a jazz that totally transcends commercial and material concerns. It also threatens the preponderance of someone explaining how they’re spiritual, but not religious. On her new album, saxophonist Muriel Grossmann avoids both these traps. Golden Rule conveys meditative tranquility and ecstatic joy without ever sounding overly pious. Most of the time, it’s also a lot of fun.

                        A chorus of instruments drone behind a number of tracks on GOLDEN RULE, but Grossmann’s performance really is what makes it exceptional. Crisp drum and bass lines start off the stellar “Direction” as a guitar comps hypnotically and Grossmann showcases her ability to get the best of a tune melodically. She plays a solo so lyrical every bar feels like a discrete composition. Bassist Gina Schwarz follows with similarly inventive solo, the swirling drone below lending depth and color.

                        Golden Rule proudly wears John Coltrane’s influence, and “Traneing In” demonstrates Grossmann’s prowess on the soprano saxophone. Schwarz underpins the song with the spellbinding bass line that changes its pattern to great effect when guitarist Radomir Milojkovic takes a knotty, soulful solo. The tightness this group has built in its four years of playing sharpens its brisk take on the composition.

                        The practice of meditation deeply sharpens Golden Rule. The drones underlying its tracks heighten the tension on certain offerings, but feel monotonous after a while. Fortunately, the dynamism of its soloists and the quartet’s telekinetic performance delivers the album’s aim: providing a listening experience akin to transcendence. Andrew Jones

                        JAZZQUAD, Belarus Sep/2018 by Leonid Auskern visit the page here

                        Muriel Grossmann — GOLDEN RULE The fourth acquaintance with the music of Austrian saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann, who is living in Spain. Without detracting from the merits of Muriel’s works that I heard and wrote about earlier (EARTH TONES (2015), NATURAL TIME (2016), MOMENTUM (2017), I consider her new project Golden Rule to be the creative pinnacle of this talented jazz lady and her strongest work up to this date.

                        Also Golden Rule was recorded like the last three albums by Muriel’s Austro-Serbian quartet with guitarist Radomir Milojkovic, bassist Gina Schwarz and drummer Uros Stamenkovic. The album is published in two versions – 2x12’ LP and CD, which is due to appear by the end of the year with a slightly reduced composition Traneing In (without a four-minute intro). The Cd differs also in the design of the cover. In our review, the cover of the vinyl album is reproduced. The album is very solid in terms of duration: more than eighty minutes of sound, only seven tracks all together. The longest, Traneing In (almost nineteen minutes of sound), took the whole side of one of the vinyl records. But the point, of course, is not the length, but the quality of the music.

                        I have never heard Muriel Grossmann have so much expression and inspiration in her playing on both her instruments, on the soprano saxophone (as in the starting piece of Golden Rule), and on the tenor saxophone (as in the next Core). Muriel’s long, unusually emotional improvisations are followed by Milojkovic’s answering and elaborating guitar solo, then to give way to a new, equally expressive and technically diverse saxophone solo. Muriel plays in this album as if it is the last time in her life! All this action takes place against the background of flexible polyrhythmic constructions created by the rhythm group (in my opinion, this album became the most striking performance for Stamenkovic). When in the piece Promise or in the final, meditative composition Light, the tempo becomes somewhat more moderate, this does not affect the quality of the performance. In Direction, Grossmann’s saxophone improvisations are well received in an excellent double bass solo by Gina Schwarz. And from the point of view of guitar work, the top of Milojkovic, for my taste, is in the composition Trane.

                        It is worth remembering, that Muriel considers as one of her main teachers, the famous German free jazz pianist Joachim Kühn. Perhaps the extraordinary freedom of expression reigning in GOLDEN RULE is, to a certain extent, due to its influence. Well, and, finally, the main source of inspiration, the eternal light of many Jazz generations already — John Coltrane. It is not by chance that one of the pieces of Grossmann in this album is named after him, and the name of the other is the neologism of Traneing In (literally: “Inhaling”). Trane, especially the late Trane, regarded music as a kind of sacred, spiritual act. Following him, Muriel Grossman aspires to the same spirituality in her music, and — damn it! — She’s great at it!

                        The liner notes author Michael Jacklin explains the title of the “Golden Rule” album by the famous biblical (and worldly) maxim: “Treat others as you would like them to treat you”. It’s hard to argue with that. But with reference to the work of Muriel Grossmann, a different interpretation can be made here: “Go your own way. perfect yourself, set yourself more and more higher tasks.” The new album of Grossmann, in my opinion, is a masterpiece reflecting exactly such an approach. Leonid Auskern


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