Alexandra Lehmler - No Blah Blah (2012) [Hi-Res]

No time for rotating empty phrases: it goes straight forward in the third album of the Mannheim saxophonist Alexandra Lehmler.

Her music has all attributes which one ascribes with pleasure to the 'male' jazz: Sovereign in its presentation, complex, but not complicated. With clear perceptible roots and own expression. Briefly, from the belly coming, grown music which still marks thought thru considerations.

The title of the album, 'No Blah Blah' (published on Thomas Siffling's label 'JAZZ'n'ARTS' and promoted from the „initiative of music“), is the theme. The compositions are substantial and exciting; the whole draught of this album is attractive. She has intensely studied the old masters of jazz; an influence of different jazz epochs appears over and over again in her play, inward-looking melody lines and lyrical subjects Lehmler’s „vibrating tones on the saxophone, mainly blown in the bright scale, the smooth lines and the song-like melody guidance“ are put by Klaus Mümpfer in the jazz platform in words, as 'unmistakable'.

Alexandra Lehmler, Soprano, Alto, Baritone Saxophone
Daniel Prandl, Piano/Rhodes (Tracks 3,4,5,7,9,10)
Bruno Böhmer, Piano/Rhodes (Tracks 1,2,6,8,11)
Matthias Debus, Bass
Max Mahlert, Drums (Tracks 3,4,5,7,9,10)
Rodrigo Villalon, Drums (Tracks 1,2,4,6,7,8,10)
Farouk Gomati, Percussion (Tracks 1,2,4,6,7,8,10)
Frank Möbus, Guitar (Tracks 2,3,7)
Michael Flury, Trombone (Tracks 2,4,9)

Tracklist:
01. Alexandra Lehmler - Feeling Round (5:33)
02. Alexandra Lehmler - Opener (4:44)
03. Alexandra Lehmler - Felina by Night (8:15)
04. Alexandra Lehmler - Liegt alles noch vor uns (5:37)
05. Alexandra Lehmler - All Alone (4:55)
06. Alexandra Lehmler - Wind, Sand, Sea, Me (4:34)
07. Alexandra Lehmler - Mo (7:19)
08. Alexandra Lehmler - Supergau (6:48)
09. Alexandra Lehmler - Vicious Circles (6:59)
10. Alexandra Lehmler - Nach der Rodung (5:38)
11. Alexandra Lehmler - Schleierwolken (4:06)