Martin Sasse & Gerd Dudek - With You (2023) Hi Res

Gerd Dudek's voice was the saxophone. Primarily on the tenor, no less sonorous and expressive on the soprano saxophone, he found his language, which was authentic and binding in all stylistic varieties.

Six titles are included in the album, and again John Coltrane plays an important role. Not only is there a masterful presentation of Coltrane's classic ballad "Naima": "With You" is an individual and at the same time collective album in the spirit of Coltrane, testimony to musical power and warmth. It is no coincidence that it begins with one of Dudek's few original compositions. The vital opener "Green Table Speech" takes a wide swing with a hymn-like gesture and then elegantly changes to a spirited theme, which serves all quartet members as a springboard for extensive solo contributions. Whereby the fabulous technique and musicality of the wonderfully well-rehearsed quartet reveals itself especially "in between", in the collective interactions.