Gansch & Roses Thomas Gansch

• 1 Tom & Jerry 06:32
• 2 5Er to Don Ellis 07:01
• 3 Endlich Allein 03:45
• 4 Confuse a Waltz 09:36
• 5 Flozirkus 04:19
• 6 Cop Girl 02:31
• 7 Eric, Flo & Harry 05:48
• 8 Steirer 3er 06:05
• 9 Call & Response 07:38
• Total Runtime 53:15

Info for Gansch & Roses

Austrian folk music meets Don Ellis, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. Thomas Gansch is a member of the VIENNA ART ORCHESTRA, co-founder of MNOZIL BRASS and a member of the SALONORCHESTRA ALHAMBRA. On „Gansch & Roses“ he takes every possible detour in pursuit of a higher ground.

Jazz is a bastard. Still some musicians and music scientists especially are in search for what they think to be the „pure lore“ of jazz or at least they think that there can not be any more innovations in jazz and consequently try to declare jazz a retrospective form of music. But: Jazz – as said – is a bastard. And it is alive as can be, if only he is granted his life as a mixture of styles and influences.

So: Who was it to think that jazz would be the American way of musical expression per se? Maybe it is all completely different! Maybe Charles Mingus was born in Lower Austria and his name was Karl? And Herzog Ellington was only called „Duke“ after a short vacation in the States. And just look at how Tom and Jerry love and hate themselves at the same time: So this most famous couple in the cartoon world most definitively must be Austrian. You just have to look, sorry: listen, a little closer.

One who can listen very carefully is trumpet player Thomas Gansch. The coarse as well as the fine tuning he learned with MNOZIL BRASS, with Mathias Rüegg and the Vienna Art Orchestra he achieved high honours. On „A Centenary Journey“, the QUINTON album among the VAO-releases, recently honoured with the „German Critics Price 02/2002“ he contributed the first two compositions on the album.

And so on his Debut album „Gansch & Roses“ Thomas Gansch mixes Tango, Eric Dolphy, The Viennese Waltz as well as Shostakovich, some Austrian Folk Dances and Don Ellis.

Thomas Gansch, trumpet, fluegelhorn
Thorsten Benkenstein, trompet
Dominik Stöger, trombone
Ed Partyka, bass trombone, tuba
Florian Bramböck, clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
Harry Sokal, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Herwig Gradischnig, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
Georg Breinschmid, bass
Mario Gonzi, drums

Thomas Gansch
was born on December 31, 1975, in St. Pölten and grew up in Melk on the Danube, where he learned to play the trumpet from his father, Johann Gansch.

At the age of 15, he moved to Vienna to study trumpet performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts. During his studies, he co-founded the group Mnozil Brass with fellow students in 1992. After six years in the classical music field, Gansch decided in 1997 to complete his studies and dedicate himself to his great passion, jazz. From 1998 to 2006, he was a member of the legendary Vienna Art Orchestra, which he still considers his "true" student days. In addition to numerous collaborations with musicians from all over the world and performances in almost 50 countries, he also composes for various other ensembles besides Mnozil Brass.



Thomas Gansch is not only one of the most versatile trumpeters of his generation, but also a true entertainer. He always has a twinkle in his eye, but never loses sight of the music.

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