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Ulrike-Anima Mathe, violin: Kari Ravnan, violoncello; Allen Shawn, piano
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Score and parts are available through Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc., your local music store, , or can be downloaded in pdf format at music2print.
Glyn Pursglove, Musicweb-International.com
" Jazz & Cocktails is an entertaining musical conversation, the musical equivalent of sophisticated talk over cocktails, with jazz in the background. There are what Shakespeare called "set[s] of wit well played" as ideas are sent backwards and forwards between instruments ... "
Ensemble (Germany)
"Gernot Wolfgang elegantly blurs the borders between New Music and Jazz, high art and sophisticated entertainment."
Howard Smith, Music & Vision
"The piano trio Jazz & Cocktails is again just as the title suggests; the three 'voices' bring a hubbub of conversation; monologues, two-part or triangular exchanges; some blurred by distance, others partially or fully overheard. They're characterized by their variety - snippets of serious, reflective or light-hearted converse - fundamentally played out in jazz idioms."
Tobias Fischer, Tokafi.com
" ... there is certainly a lot of space in the relaxed ambiance of Jazz & Cocktails (dominated by bleeding string breaths and Robert Thies' shimmering piano cascades ... ) ... "