FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 55:48 | 193 Mb
Jazz
Thelonia, his most intimate work to date. “I had already made the decision for a solo album quite a while before the pandemic,” Sebastian Sternal immediately clears up a possible misunderstanding. The fact that the multi-award-winning (WDR Jazz Prize, New German Jazz Prize, etc.) pianist and composer is now presenting his first solo work after almost 20 years of professional career may come as a surprise to some After all, with his large-format Symphonic Society on two albums (both received Jazz Echos, Vol. 2 also the annual prize of the German Record Critics), he has extremely successfully dissolved genre boundaries, among other things, through the combination of jazz octet and string quartet. Sternal then shone in a dynamic trio with the American star bassist Larry Grenadier and Jonas Burgwinkel – for the album Home he received his third Echo in 2018
Tracklist
1. Arc (1:24)
2. Eleven (3:28)
3. Birds (2:03)
4. Free (1:03)
5. Traum (4:50)
6. Ancient Song (3:15)
7. Prayer (4:39)
8. Walk (2:22)
9. Forest Rain (4:02)
10. Embraceable You (3:57)
11. Milonga (3:36)
12. Grains (1:15)
13. Calgary (3:41)
14. J.T. (4:19)
15. Landscape (1:32)
16. Lullaby (2:25)
17. The Way You Look Tonight (3:15)
18. Coffee Bay (4:48)