''Continuum'' is an album by German keyboardist and composer

Rainer Brüninghaus Rainer Brüninghaus (born 21 November 1949) is a German jazz pianist, composer and university teacher. Career He was born in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany. Rainer Brüninghaus was educated in classical piano, playing from the age of nine, ...

with trumpeter

Markus Stockhausen Markus Stockhausen (born May 2, 1957) is a German trumpeter and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between jazz and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer Karlheinz Sto ...

and drummer Fredy Studer recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography
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Reception

In the

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review by Thom Jurek, he calls the album "meditative, inviting, full of rounded edges and melodies. It contains all the icy spaciousness of Manfred Eicher's trademark production, but the effect of Brüninghaus' compositions is warm, accessible even. They are open-ended and contemplative and explore musical questions lyrically. There is a valid argument to be made for the non-adventurousness of these works, and the fairly safe improvisations within them, but perhaps that's the point".Jurek, T
Allmusic Review
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Rainer Brüninghaus'' # "Strahlenspur" - 4:50 # "Stille" - 10:27 # "Continuum" - 4:00 # "Raga Rag" - 10:49 # "Schattenfrei" - 5:15 # "Innerfern" - 9:30 *Recorded at Talent Studio in Oslo, Norway in September 1983

Personnel

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, synthesizer *

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

, flugelhorn *Fredy Studer - drums

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Continuum (Rainer Bruninghaus album) ECM Records albums 1984 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher