Jazz

SThe legendary Yes guitarist Steve Howe & his trio featuring Bill Bruford.

Digipack.<br/><br/>Att kombinera klassik musik och jazz är ett vågstycke som inte alltid lyckas. Anledningen är att musikformerna har skilda strukturer. Strikt noterad musik möter improviserad musik vilket kräver mycket av parterna. En av stilarterna kan lätt hamna i ett underläge som stryper spontaniteten i spelet så att musiken enkelt uttryckt får gå på konstgjord andning. Tack och lov finns det berikande undantag! Klarinettisten Staffan Mårtensson (till vardags i Hovkapellet Stockholm), pianisten Lennart Simonsson och basisten Jan Adefelt har inte gått in i fällan. Tvärtom, de har fogat samman komponenterna seriöst utan ta till nötta klichéer. Här skapar musikernas närmanden till materialet intima vibbar. Ingen av stilriktningarna naggas i kanten och kommer på mellanhand. Albumet innehåller bl.a jazzteman som There'll Never Be Another You, 'Round Midnight, Charlie Mingus bluesiga Nostalgia In Times Square och Quincy Jones Stockholm Sweetnin'. Folkmusikton finner man i Emigrantvisa och Visa från Rättvik. Från den klassiska melodiboken plockas Faurés Sicilienne opus 78. Bach och Lewis samsas ödmjukt i Intervention 1 Bach/Django och i Intervention 2 Eccles/Things, som har märkbara spår av Jerome Kerns All The Things You Are. Sammantaget en skiva och trio som passar flera smaklökar. <br/><br/>- Simba / GO

British pianist Django Bates returns to ECM with one of his very finest constellations, the trio Belovèd, with Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Danish drummer Peter Bruun, and an aptly named album, "The Study of Touch". All three musicians are highly individual players, subtly challenging the conventions of the jazz piano trio. The group came together a decade ago when Bates was teaching at Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory. The shared work has included inspired reconstructions of pieces associated with Charlie Parker - a formative influence for both Bates and bassist Eldh - and in this new album, Parker's tune "Passport" is set amid Django originals, and played with respect, contemporary sensibility and joy. Some of Django's own tunes here - such as "Senza Bitterness", "Sadness All The Way Down" and "We Are Not Lost, We Are Simply Finding Our Way" have become core pieces in Belovèd's repertoire, continually remodeled by this trio of improvisers. Bates' composing and arranging skills are much in evidence, along with his freewheeling, free-flowing virtuosic melodic sense. The terse, percussive edge of Petter Eldh's bass provides momentum and drummer Peter Bruun details the music with an almost painterly touch. In the crowded world of the piano trio, Belovèd has developed a sound all its own. "The Study of Touch" was recorded at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in June 2016, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

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