Alan Bartuš / Robert Unterköfler – Synergy – Jazz Cats of Tomorrow vol.1

Alan Bartuš – piano / Robert Unterköfler – tenorsaxophone, sopranosaxophone

SYNERGY represents the culmination of the school’s awards package, bestowed to them as winners of JAM’s rigorous jazz competition, spearheaded in partnership with Austrian broad- casters, Ö1 radio. All future scholarships will include this career lift – a studio recording. Pianist Alan and saxophonist Robert (switching between tenor and soprano) are traditionalists whose ears are tuned to an evolving musical soundscape. One hears in them a probing intensity, the desire to refine an identifying sound. The songs featured here are originals that speak to jazz’s complex history.