Matyas Szandai Quartet - Sadhana (CD)

The striking musical personalities come from different musical cultures and they all draw on several different sources. While he scans the skies, Mátyás Szandai also takes note of what is on earth, in the material world. He digs deep to lay down his compositional and conducting foundations. He researches primarily in himself. As a contrabassist, by virtue of his instrument he has long had both feet on the ground, and this groove-orientation is just as evident in this composer's CD. As is the fact that in his career to date he has, to coin a phrase, laid the foundation for a great many varied first-class musical constructions, and Mátyás Szandai himself is of course also imbued with these influences. Among his permanent partners in music we meet personalities like Archie Shepp, David Murray, Herbie Mann, Chico Freeman, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Gerard Presencer, Chris Potter, or Zbigniew Namislovsky. However, on this disc the listener is only intermittently brus