6th November 2015: Michael Janisch’s Paradigm Shift back on the road this week with special 10th December show at Manchester’s Band On The Wall + 4 stars from Jazzwise Magazine, All About Jazz, The Jazz Mann and The Herald Scotland.

Michael Janisch’s extensive  Paradigm Shift  Euro tour continues this week and there is a special upcoming show on December 10th at Manchester’s Band On The Wall. (Tickets). All ticket holders will receive a free 15-Track Whirlwind Recordings sampler album upon arrival.

So far the tour has covered more than 30 dates and has included workshops and performances in Shetland Islands, Wales as well as the sold out launch party at Pizza Express, London, and Seville Jazz Festival (See video) and a two day ‘Whirlwind Mini Fest’ in Glasgow.

To see some ‘tour’ photos and read tour news visit: here and here.

Both the album and the live shows have been received with great interest and excitement. Here are just a few of the highlights to date: 

“A highlight of Janisch’s eventful career to date… the centerpiece of the album is the lengthy suite of the title track, which gives full vent to Janisch’s ability as a writer who creates from the stance of a bold improviser, so much so that the music feels entirely ‘lived in’ and visceral…”
4 Stars, Jazzwise Magazine (scroll down for full feature)

“Sheer dynamism… both discs indubitably demonstrate just how brilliant Janisch’s band sounds.”
4 Stars, All About Jazz (full review)

“An astonishingly invigorating listen… The results – the half-hour Janisch-written ‘Paradigm Shift Suite’ – not only has great variety, from full-on quintet to individual and duet interludes, but it also has a remarkable cohesion, a tribute to Janisch’s over-arching vision as a composer and band leader.”
The Jazz Breakfast (full review)

“Janisch’s virtuosity is unquestioned. On ‘Paradigm Shift’ he shows his own broad compositional soundscape and thematic grooves.”
Jazz FM (full review)

“Paradigm Shift is bursting with ideas and potential directions and a powerful music statement from Janisch and his quintet.”
London Jazz News (full review)

“The music was surging, searching, with marvellous honking, free-flowing soprano saxophone from Jason Yarde, and hugely descriptive, not least on Janisch’s almost filmic, carousal-inspired Mike’s Mosey.”
4 Stars, Herald Scotland (live review)

“A stellar international sextet… The performance of the suite was dazzling in terms of its power, precision and intensity, music that was visceral and uncompromising yet ultimately energising, enjoyable and invigorating for band members and audience alike. Catch the Paradigm Shift tour if you can.”
4 Stars, The Jazz Mann (live/album review)

“​Michael Janisch is simply a monster player. His bass skills on both electric and acoustic seem monumental and at the same time, effortless. He obviously loves a groove, though his grooves are more complex than your average funk/R&B bassist. His soloing is thematic and takes in the entire range of the instrument, often contrasting high note melodic statement with low note grooves.​”​
What’s On​ (live review)

“​As a player, [Janisch] sits front and centre of the tradition, incorporating all kinds of European textural and harmonic innovations into the muscular, blues-to-bop language of contemporary America. The suite progresses through a parade of unexpected developments, from Sun Ra-style creaking clavinet to a stunning drum solo with vocal chorus interjections.”
Jazzwise Magazine (live review)

“A wealth of imaginative, engaging jazz has been produced by bands that expertly bridge the styles of free-flowing acoustic jazz and electronic styles, but Michael Janisch’s Paradigm Shift must surely be one of the most accomplished.”
The Jazz Breakfast (live review)

“Brilliant… but infuriating.”
The Guardian

“Hard-edged, electronica-enhanced contemporary modern jazz quintet… richly textured four-movement Paradigm Shift suite… delivers powerhouse grooves, shifting rhythms and the muscular Anglo/US sax and trumpet front line of Paul Booth and Jason Palmer.”
The Financial Times

“Bassist Michael Janisch’s new live double album, Paradigm Shift, is a groove-centric ride in a souped-up engine. Its moving parts are clearly in all working order, shifting and flowing like they were built that way. The rhythm section of Janisch, drummer Colin Stranahan, and pianist Leo Genovese is outstanding.”
NextBop

“At the epicentre is a four piece movement with the first movement noticeable for the use of repeated electric piano vamps and some hard-hitting trumpet that recalls the young Freddie Hubbard and overall comes across as similar in tone and multi-layering to Miles’ ‘Bitches Brew’ era.”
UK Vibe

“Michael Janisch’s Paradigm Shift is one monster album. The movements, or sections, feature some of the best ‘on-the-bandstand’ improvisations committed to disc in recent times.”
Bebop Spoken Here

“Paradigm Shift finished off the night with a tour de force display of instrumental firepower that ranks alongside any jazz gig I’ve been to in the past and I’m including some very big names in that list.”
Mumble Music (Scotland, live review)

“Edgy, post-millennium melodic and rhythmic devices, and the 2011 live recording at its core is tweaked by state-of-the-art studio effects. Overdubbed electric basses and didgeridoos merge and spin in echoing space; and contemporary Latin grooves carry bright, tightly wound themes like 1960s Blue Note sessions stretched into Steve Coleman-esque melody-mazes.”
The Guardian

“An expansive and ceaselessly shifting affair, ranging through muscular ensemble playing and horn statements punctuated by solo electric or double bass interludes over a susurrus of electronics.”
The Scotsman

“[Janisch’s] talented group, in particular saxophonist Paul Booth and keyboardist Leo Genovese, find plenty to say on the subject of the bassist’s involved and involving tunes.”
The Irish Times

“Janisch continues to prove himself to be one of the most forward looking bandleaders around and a major stimulating presence.”
Marlbank

“Paradigm Shift is an electro-acoustic mix of dazzling improvisations, post-processed electronics, with unique and creative compositions.”
URB (LA -based radio station)