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WHO Trio

Michel Wintsch piano

Gerry Hemingway bateria

Bänz Oester contrabaixo

Assinatura 4 concertos
45,00 eur

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35,00 eur

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90,00 eur

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WHO Trio
10,00€ / 7,50€ c/d

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2021.11.13 WHO Trio

One of the most distinguished features of Western’s non-classical popular music of the twentieth century, and jazz’s origins themselves are the living proof of such assumption, is the crucial influence of the margins exerted upon the center. In the age of massification, art has been democratized, therefore becoming uncontrollable, in the sense that it began to favor spontaneous and non-classical forms of expression, freed finally from all the constraints of the academy. Almost every single modern musical genre – rock, hip-hop, funk, soul and all its derivatives – are clearly non-institutional cultural manifestations (mainly urban) which were, at some point or the other, absorbed by the economic system. If we accept this assumption as true, we must logically conclude that, in a certain sense, the musical narrative of the old century is in fact an history of rumors from the underground which, considered outraged or incomprehensible at the time they make themselves heard, end up almost inevitably becoming sooner or later the predominant tendencies promoted by the economic cultural system.

In the last thirty years it has become normal within the sphere of musical media critics to draw a clear distinction between two major streams in contemporary art: the mainstream and the undergroundstream – or, in other words, the art that generates economic value and the art that is alien to the monetarization of the artistic creation. The WHO Trio fits naturally into this second and more diffuse category of musicians uncompromisingly anti-economic but whose ideas now begin to invade the institutional circuit of jazz, now finally open to free improvisation and wide-spectrum exploration of sound. Formed by three excellent musicians, this group is one of the pioneers of the movement of spiritual reconnection between formal radicalism and tradition, proposing a third-way between the free jazz from the 1970’s and the tendencies of fusion predominant during the decades of 1980 and 1990.


In WHO trio’s highly resonant music, the original matrix of jazz is evoked in a way that is expansively engaged in the search for new horizons between composition and improvisation, permanently shifting and merging the individual and collective dimensions of the creative act. Its identity is inseparable from the style of its interpreters, three musicians with a highly physical approach to their instruments, namely: North-American drummer Gerry Hemingway, member of the band BassDrumBone and collaborator of seminal jazz figures such as Anthony Braxton or Cecil Taylor, and Swiss musicians Michael Wintsh and Bänz Oester, two important names of European’s avant-jazz and improvisation scene. WHO’s most recent project, “Strell”, which will expectably be at the center of their concert in Guimarães Jazz 2021, is devoted to a reinterpretation of the music of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s, two fundamental composers of the twentieth century’s popular music and whose legacy still exerts a crucial influence on contemporary music. At the same time tense and delicate, abstract and organic, always focused on the interactive dimension of music, the most salient feature of the group’s sound is the search of new grammars in old idioms, new words that echo in our times and whose rumor now begins to be heard.

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