Ended Wednesday and welcomed Thursday with Freigeweht an album by German keyboardist and composer Rainer Brüninghaus recorded in August 1980 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features Kenny Wheeler on flugelhorn, Brynjar Hoff on oboe, and Jon Christensen on drums.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

...it was only a matter of time before Rainer Brüninghaus would be given an opportunity to lead, and did so at last to soaring effect on Freigeweht with a group of sympathetic musicians and a compositional aptitude to match. Over the space of six fairly extended pieces, we find the keyboardist in many facets. Whether it’s sharing rhythmic savvy with Kenny Wheeler in “Stufen” (Steps) or swapping runes with Brynjar Hoff on English horn in “Die Flüsse hinauf” (Upstream), his hands abide in every blissful moment.

https://ecmreviews.com/2011/10/14/freigeweht/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etwPoxqARB4&list=OLAK5uy_lAgRKNxL-km7f6_a5No-GTUev83y4vOl8

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Yellow Fields is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in September 1975 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features saxophonist Charlie Mariano, pianist Rainer Brüninghaus and drummer Jon Christensen.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it the maximum four stars and placed it in their Core Collection, writing "Weber's masterpiece is essentially a period piece which nevertheless still seems modern. The sound of it is almost absurdly opulent: bass passages and swimming keyboard textures that reverberate from the speakers, chords that seem to hum with huge overtones. The keyboard textures in particular are of a kind that will probably never be heard on record again." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z_K-_uARQ8&list=OLAK5uy_mgG4w5mjI_btkCkYcc0mj7xRiJIayGt3c

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