The qualities of an improvising musician are particulaury put to the test in the format of an unaccompanied solo. Apart from one’s own creativity, there are no impulses from other colleagues, no possibility of further musical communication. Georg Ruby can be called one of Germany's most versatile pianists. His new album Soliloqies was created without any structural guidelines, proving how varied improvisational music can be when the field of experimental jazz is blended with sound structures of new music just as well as traces of traditional jazz standards (“Nefertiti”, “Efterårsdag/Autumn Leaves”) or even the atmosphere of the German Schlager of the 1920s/1930s (“Für eine Nacht voller Seligkeit”).

On the other hand, in three of the freely improvised pieces, “Cumpleaños”, “Terça-feira à noit”, and “Terça-feira à tarde”, Ruby has attempted to add to the "loneliness of the solo improviser" to of the production: himself as a source of inspiration and"self-conversation". He recorded four freely improvised tracks (including prepared piano, pebbles, rhythm on piano strings, vocal improvisations, loops and bass lines) in advance. He then asked the sound designer Reinhard Kobialka, without any prior consultation, to repeatedly push one, two, three or all of these tracks into and out of Ruby's ongoing improvisation process, thus bringing him into the mode of improvisational communication. The result is convincing: one can clearly feel the effects, the triggering of this musical self-blood treatment in Georg Ruby's improvisational sections.

Georg Ruby is co-founder of the now legendary Stadtgarten project in Cologne and can be heard with his trio VILLAGE ZONE (JHM 262 / 279) or together with the Luxembourg performer Sascha Ley. He was the musical partner of the recently deceased Michel Pilz, one of the world's most important improvisers on the bass clarinet. He has been running the Cologne label JazzHausMusik for many years. His CD production Deuxième Bureau (JHM 205), together with Michel Pilz, was voted "Album of the Year" by the New York City Jazz Record.