Home & Some Other Places" is an unadulterated declaration of love to Jazz, by the Cologne-based pianist, Florian Ross.

In our fast-moving times, one is often tempted to place too much importance on physical and tempo-ral position. This is as true in music as in anything else. Yesterday's claim no longer holds true today, and will, in the best case, be in again tomorrow, when one has the feeling that one has to distance himself from another yesterday. And it is precisely those who claim to tear down mental walls, who often erect new geographical barriers. Many European Jazz musicians find it virtuous to distance themselves from American examples and attitudes toward playing. Another camp is dedicated to propagating the American tradition as authentically as possible in Europe. It is refreshing when such an album as 'Home And Some Other Places' by the Cologne-based pianist, Florian Ross, arises out of this often embarrassing context.
As the title already indicates, one of the things that makes this CD special is the accentuated play between contrasts, 'Home & Some Other Places is brought to life by the unpredictable alternation of static & dynamic elements, intimate & open moments. 'I didn't want a tightly arranged and structured album, but it shouldn't be obtrusively free either. It was more important to create a natu-ral balance between my various influences, motives and emotions. Soft-loud, straight-dissonant, that's all a part of me. I didn't want a slant to one side. The album should primarily reflect me.' The title refers to both internal & external places. 'Home stands for that which you know, the tradition, the place where you have your roots, feel good and don't en-counter unpleasant surprises. Some Other Place are where you haven't been yet.'

'Home & Some Other Places' is an unadulterated declaration of love to Jazz, a music that was never really created, never at home in one place and which will never be perfected, and as such will never lose it's cogency.

Track Listing

• Dr. Gradus
• Pretty Thing
• 5 Freunde
• Strange But True
• Richard Called
• Tiger Holiday
• Platypus
• Pretty Thing Postlude
• Hal
• Like Like Like
• Arts & Chemistry
• Lanugo
• Sunshower
• 4W
• Short Visit

Additional Details

Label: Intuition

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 70:42 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/09/25

UPC: 750447338128