Florian Weber (1977) grew up in Detmold, Germany, and touched a piano for the first time when he was four. In his teens he was already at home in jazz and classical music and with his great piano talent he was allowed to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He now lives mainly in New York and here he also formed his multi-national quartet with which Biosphere was recorded. Weber is one
… of the many young jazz musicians from New York who do not commit to any style and at the same time carry the entire jazz past in their playing. He plays fluently and virtuosically without expressly displaying the latter, while his band members are not inferior to him. The group plays with African rhythms just as easily as the classical fugue form and effortlessly combines abstract with melodic passages, in own compositions and arrangements of songs by, among others, Coldplay and Eric Clapton. The fact that they also manage to make all of this sound very cheerful, organic and energetic is the most special thing about Biosphere. (MR)more
