Spaces - Together Alone (2021)

Up to now it has been more important than anything else in jazz: that the musicians in an ensemble listen to each other and react when they play together ... "Spaces", the quartet around the Hanoverian saxophonist Andreas Burckhardt, has - due to the pandemic, of course - with a whole experimented with another type of communication. Burckhardt and pianist Eike Wulfmeier, Clara Däubler on bass and drummer Willi Hanne had no contact with each other during the recordings, sat in separate rooms, and neither heard nor saw each other. "Alone together", just like a jazz standard interpreted by Chet Baker by Messrs Schwartz and Dietz, is the title of the extremely astonishing album.