"At concerts of freely improvised music, one often sees absorbed, serious faces - especially when this special discipline today announces less of aesthetic rebellion and is more a matter of the educated middle class. Georg Ruby, improviser, composer, pianist and pedagogue, thinks nothing at all of such connotations when it comes to music, to alert communication, to the joy of the thing. [...] From so much artistic enlightenment arises [...] an idiosyncratic flow, which also allows itself many a labyrinthine turn and bend. Free sound dialogues lead over to individually formed, even recitative-like moments. And the interactions between Ruby's sometimes powerfully straightforward, then subtly prepared piano, the filigree bass playing and an imaginatively charged noise poetry of the drums are fascinating. Above all, the vocal aspect has loads of charisma [...]."
(Stefan Pieper, Jazzthetik 05/06-2021: 26 f.)

JHM presentation
It is possible to regard Georg Ruby's Trio Village Zone as a new interpretation of the classical piano jazz trio. In its improvisations the album "Saluti a Peppino" represents structural progress of the jazz trio turning it into, as one might say, a "whole" instrument, a unique body of sound avoiding the leading character of the piano. Sascha Ley, female vocalist from Luxemburg, is featured on four of the songs. In the intense version of Michel Legrand's "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" the quality of a spiritually communicative alliance becomes concrete straight away. Otherwise "Saluti a Peppino" is a daring piece of music. The chuzpe of the trio's musicians performing the songs "St. Tropez Twist" and "Le Stelle d’Oro", compositions of the Italian pop folk grandmaster Peppino di Capri, by singing and playing, pays tribute to di Capri's originals and shows how much excessive fun, how much materialised endorphin can be produced by an extraordinary band.
(release date: 14 May 2021, JazzHausMusik)