Breinology [CD]

Austrian bassist and composer Georg Breinschmid, a former Vienna Philharmonic player who crossed over into jazz, shows off both sides of his musical life on Breinology — with plenty of his trademark humor. There are trio pieces written for Brein, Schmid & Gansch with Benjamin Schmid and Thomas Gansch, a blues-tinged, odd-meter "Rossini-Medley", the virtuosic "Zwiefacher Suite" for La Philharmonica and an elegiac "Fantasie" for violin and piano.

Other highlights include whistled, overdubbed one-man tracks, a satirical song in Austrian dialect with CelloXang, and an unrehearsed take on his "5/4" with former Weather Report drummer Peter Erskine, plus two playful bonus tracks.