Angelika Niescier explores the basics of creative power and finds spaces which help her to explore her instrument. The chance to have two like-minded masters in New York who have similar sound visions as to form and content confronting her leads to a smart extension of the game zone putting Angelika into another ball park of improvisers. “Tyshawn I have known for 1o years time and I think it was a Steve Coleman concert where I met Thomas Morgan. It was immediately evident that we should work together. We did a couple of trio concerts and out of these moments the program of Quite Simply took shape that I streamlined for Thomas and Tyshawn.” (A.N.) A long development for an album but it sounds accordingly mature and powerful as it lets three musical worlds sometime collide, sometime compete, sometime harmonize.
Angelika Niescier, born in Polish Sczcecin has been living in Germany since 1981 and went masterfully through the academic system. She concertized under her name around the world and played also with Jim Black and Steve Swallow. During the last ten years she was accepted nationally and internationally which resulted in plenty of awards and scholarships,.the last one being the JAZZ ECHO 2010, the most prestigious German jazz award.
Thomas Morgan hails from California and studied with Gerry Dial and Ray Brown at the Manhattan School of Music His reputation as significant bassplayer of his generation led him to Steve Coleman, Joey Baron and Tyshawn Sorey who has his roots in Newark, New Jersey, who has become a motor for the young New York scene. Quite Simply mixes sound spheres socialisations, attitudes. Angelika offers a combination of profound reflection and abstraction, lines schooled at the avant-garde and an immensely varied tone production. Communication on „Level 3“, a challenge which at the same time moves and adds the album as a new reference to the genre of saxophone trios.
(Enja Records)
