An all-star affair that delivers coherence above showboating. The musicians are phenomenal and they pledge allegiance to the minor key tango-flavored original dirges and dances. Perfect accompaniment for raking leaves alone on a fall night as the temperature and the sun both drop. Summer is gone and a long winter ensues. Let the beauty fall down...
The organic style that has emerged from this moment in jazz will have a lasting effect on music for years to come. This recording stands out among many as a night like no other.
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The career of jazz composer and trumpeter Dave Douglas has been prolific and intrepid, brimming with brash experiments and interdisciplinary artistic collaborations. Born in 1963, Douglas has, for the past 30 years, written and played original music incorporating everything from Eastern European folk to avant-garde jazz to rock-ish electronica, all injected with the spontaneous improvisation and top-notch scholarship that are the yin and yang of jazz. Along the way, he has worked in the realms… more »
Uri Caine personifies the postmodern musical impulse; he's recorded straight-ahead and not so straightahead jazz, funk, klezmer, Brazilian pop, turn-of-20th-century Tin Pan Alley songs and breathtakingly novel and diverse arrangements of 18th and 19th Century classics. Depending on the setting, he'll play grand piano, electric piano, their ancestor the pianoforte (as when wittily improvising on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations), harpsichord, organ, synthesizers - pretty much anything involving black and white keys. Most anyone else trying all… more »
