Gabriel Zufferey - Contemplation (2012)

Gabriel has viewed Contemplation as an open letter, a reflexion about his own world and the other’s one. Like an initiatory path leading to his own fulfillment, and beyond: the meeting with others, the more genuine expression, free and invested, the understanding and look beyond prejudices and faults.

Gabriel Zufferey has a delicate and powerful touch, tuneful and thoughtful, and a constant groove. He gets a confidence and a disturbing maturity, a large musical intelligence, and an unsuspected harmonic field. His touch has been connected to some pianists like Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Brad Mehldau or even Bud Powell.

'Gabriel Zufferey has a delicate and powerful touch, melodic and meditative, spontaneous and generous, and a permanent groove. He has an uncanny confidence and maturity, a vast musical intelligence, an unexpected harmonic scope. 'Even solo, his sense of the harmonic economy turns him away from any overload, from any narcissism. He plays only what makes sense.' (Franck Bergerot, Le Monde de la Musique).

Tracklist:

01. Contemplation
02. Gnossienne n°3 – Nardis
03. Tension
04. Take Five
05. Crepuscule
06. My Funny Valentine
07. Armando’s Rhumba
08. Tenderrly
09. Underside
10. The Old Country
11. In A Sentimental Mood
12. Freedom Jazz Dance
13. Dienda
14. Cassiopée
15. Trinkle Tinkle
16. Giant Steps
17. Aldebaran
18. Lonnie’s Lament – Lonely Woman