Johannes Wallmann "Love Wins" Project (CD release)
North Street Cabaret 610 North St., Madison, Wisconsin 53704
Michael R. Anderson
When Johannes Wallmann marked the album release of his jazz suite Love Wins, the powerful performance was missing one thing — the album, which had been delayed by the record company. So Wallmann, a pianist and the director of jazz studies at UW-Madison, and an ensemble will once again perform the work that celebrates the fight for marriage equality. Joining Wallmann will be his collaborator on the project, hip-hop artist Rob Dz. It was the long road to the legalization of gay marriage that inspired the work, but Wallmann’s composition moves beyond the history to simply celebrate love. Spoiler alert: It wins.