Paul Bernewitz - Someday (2022) CD-Rip

What can songs from the Great American Songbook that were published 50 to 80 years ago still give us today? After listening to Paul Bernewitz's emotional debut album, we know: Endless much. Paul Bernewitz' arrangements are like a new genre. They are not just "arrangements" - like there are many of "Someday My Prince Will Come" and other world-famous songs - they are new narratives, spin-offs, small mines, parcours: struggling for free space, where the predetermined rolls off, and longing for something valid , where emptiness and insignificance take over.

Paul Bernewitz put together a band in Nuremberg in 2020 that brings together up-and-coming individuals from the southern German jazz scene to bring his music to life. With the poetically chiseling drummer Jonas Sorgenfrei, the wide-awake bassist Amelie-Marie Richarz, who is stormy like an anchor, the agile saxophonists Paul Scheugenpflug and Michael Reiß, who speak from the soul, and the charismatic singer Regina Heiss, he knows he has an excellently cast ensemble at his side. The ensemble grows together musically without "sticking together" - hence the transparent, multifaceted sound. Although they are all part of the grand narrative, they remain on their coordinates in order to report on their perspectives. The band demands, forces, but also quickly returns to their orbit, seeking their vibration there: no good storyteller imposes itself.

The joy of playing is paired with an amazing maturity and depth of message. Everything seems to be rooted in the insight of wanting to reflect ambivalences in the music. The result is a profoundly groping, often urgent, brooding flow - pure anti-kitsch. Contemporary jazz can also sound like this.