Daniel Zeng; Ivan Gotham; Ken Komatsu; Cecil Lynch; Mark Thurmond; David Madigan; Bill Lober; James Kvach; Hsinchu Chen Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG (2007) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Max Zenger is a saxophonist and woodwind specialist who plays in various groups as a leader and sideman. He is comfortable playing and writing music in a variety of settings. Zenger’s style fuses elements from old and new jazz, influences of world music and adventurous improvisation. Zenger’s music has been described as “melodic”, “international”, and “at the top of the new generation in Finnish jazz”.
The second album of Globus continues to explore and mix soundscapes and moods with only sky as the limit. The album and title tune were originally inspired by the Indonesian island Flores, while the name also refers to floral inspiration for the music.
"Influences from Ellington to modern jazz greats can be heard on the album, with a desire to keep the energy of live-performance and communication in a studio album", describes Zenger.
The compositions are bigger and some of them were sketched before the covid broke loose, after which they have been put up to date and...
