Regula Haener - Flowers Telling Me (2023)

The Swiss pianist Regula Haener, once the first female jazz graduate from Joe Haider in Bern, plays a kind of delicate modal trance jazz. On her current double CD she was inspired by flowers and the famous garden of the painter Claude Monet. She manages to do wonderfully worn gems like "Water Lilies", but she also works with prepared grand pianos like in the rustling introduction to "Winter". From their quartet with the congenially acting Frank Noack and Lukas Bitterlin on guitar and drums, the trumpeter and flugelhorn player Dave Blaser stands out and fits perfectly into the mysterious mood that characterizes Haener's music. "After the Rain" (not the Coltrane composition) is one of the atmospheric highlights on the second CD, which ends with the song "Roses": Haener actually didn't need a piece anymore, but the melody penetrated so persistently to the surface that she finally took them in too.