ANDY MANNDORFF TRIO
“YOU BREAK IT YOU OWN IT”
March, 13 Saturday, Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center, 08.30 pm
Andy
Manndorff: Guitar
Achim Tang: Bass
Reinhardt Winkler: Drums
Born in Vienna. Lived and worked in Amsterdam from 1980 to 1987, then in New York until 1994. Since 1995 his base of operation once again has been Vienna. With his stunning and headstrong playing technique Manndorff has developed an unmistakable style. Guitarist Andy Manndorff is one of the most interesting and innovating Austrian musicians, a true stylist who has designed something like his own musical language. Since his return to Vienna Andy Manndorff has concentrated on his own projects, from solo performances to projects that deal with a tightrope walk between composition and spontaneous intuition. Further he has written Chamber music, musical theater and recently „Larry“, an opera for the „Künstlerhaus“ in Vienna. He has done extensive touring all over Europe, Russia, India, the US and Africa. In whatever musical idiom Andy Manndorff moves, he never loses himself in virtuosity as an end in itself. He is always mindful to leave
himself and his musicians enough space to explore new paths and byways.
After a few bars of music by this trio it becomes evident that we are listening to 3 people who are united by enormous sympathy for each other, experience and improvisatory mastership.
Their credo ist the beauty of melody embedded in a powerful energetic world of sound, in which freedom and responsibility merge. This is jazz that tells its personal stories.
The title describes caution and subtility of the trio`s music on the one hand and on the other hand daringness in their pursuit of freedom with respect to form and expression.
Coming from the avantgarde the three musicians realize their wealth of experience allowing them to explore profundity without overburdening their audience and at the same time convey beauty without compromising artistic integrity.
Press reviews
One of the most interesting jazz-oriented projects lately, which, in its best moments, could easily compare with the wonderful ambivalence of a concert by Ornette Coleman. Der Standard (Austria)
What makes Manndorff so interesting as a guitarist is the fact that he just cannot be classified. Sometimes there is a trace of John Scofield, Bill Frisell or even Jim Hall, but the result always sounds completely authentic. Another virtue of Mannsdorff's is that he rarely repeats himself.
NRC-Handelsblad (Netherlands)
Andy Manndorff is one of those musicians who have stopped regarding jazz as an American export article. His aesthetics are based on his own cultural and biographical identity. He is a true stylist who has developed something like his own language. Jazzthethik (Germany)
Sensitivity and rebellion "Andy Manndorff and Band" Each composition has a different sound pattern. Blues-like bepop, free funk with jagged rhythms and African folklore combine with outbursts of vehement intensity. Nobody felt any sense of boredom. Südkurier (Germany)
DISCOGRAPHY (Selection out of about 30 records)
Nightride of a lonely Saxophone player, Part 1 / Vienna Art Orchestra 1985
Nightride of alonely Saxophone player, Part 2 / Vienna Art Orchestra 1985
Two little Animals / Vienna Art Orchestra 1986
Blue Glass / The Karnataka College of Percussion 1988
The Gatecrasher / Andy Manndorff 1992
Pentadom 2 / Pentadom 1994
Mixed Metaphors / Wolfgang Puschnig 1994
Talking Elevator / Andy Manndorff 1997
Hakoah / Andy Manndorff 1999
Coincidence / Thomas Kaufmann 2001
Matter and Motion / Andy Manndorff 2001
Unhurried Grace with Thomas Kaufmann, altosax 2004
Perndorff with Thomas Pernes, piano 2004
Hard Poetry / Andy Manndorff 2004
Up To Scratch / Andy Manndorff 2005
Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert / Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert, 2005