Paul Auster Jazz - Blue Smoke In The Face (Peter Lehel Quartet)

Описание: Paul Auster Jazz
Peter Lehel Quartet

Blue Smoke In The Face (comp. by Peter Lehel)

Peter Lehel - Tenor Saxophone
Ull Möck - Piano
Dirk Blümlein - Bass
Jakob Dinnebier - Drums

For the Peter Lehel Quartet's new program, saxophonist, composer, and arranger Peter Lehel draws inspiration from the novels, stories, and characters from Paul Auster's rich oeuvre.

Paul Auster, who died in 2024, was a bestselling author in the US and a cult author in Europe. With his powerful language and sophisticated thought processes, he captured the spirit of postmodernism.

He achieved his breakthrough in the mid-1980s with his "New York Trilogy." He wrote experimental crime stories, such as "City of Glass," which—with sophisticated twists—culminate in ambivalence and complex existential questions.

"When he writes, he is completely blind and floating. At first, he has a fairly precise idea of ​​the book, but then surprising things happen, and in the end, it results in a completely different book," Paul Auster once said. The grandson of Jewish immigrants from Galicia lived for a few years as a bohemian in Paris, where he met Samuel Beckett, but his real home was in New York, in Brooklyn, which he also immortalized in films like "Smoke."

Almost all of Auster's novels contain cross-references within his entire oeuvre. The author himself sees his books as parts of the same map. Certain characters appear multiple times or are related to one another.

In all of these facets, there are analogies to Peter Lehel's approach to music, his reminiscence of Paul Auster:

Self-reflection on his own musical identity
Cross-references to his own musical work, both in improvisation and composition
Exploring surprising twists and turns
Approaching existential questions
Peter Lehel has led a quartet since the mid-1990s, which has continued to develop through continuous work in a long-term unified ensemble and a lively concert schedule on almost every continent. This has resulted in over 20 CDs and programs of various styles.
Initially, jazz history, especially the modal jazz of the classic John Coltrane Quartet, influenced the Peter Lehel Quartet's sound. Later, elements of groove jazz, classical influences from chamber jazz, and Hungarian folk music around Béla Bartók were added.

The Peter Lehel Quartet regularly features guests from classical, world music, and jazz to broaden its spectrum.

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