Driftwood

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DriftwoodOpis:Product Description Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel makes his ECM leader debut with Driftwood, a trio album of subtlety and depth featuring renowned US jazz players Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade. The group creates a ravishing sound, captured with fidelity at Rainbow Studio in Oslo. Lyrical, grooving and atmospheric by turns, the guitarist's compositions on this highly attractive recording include tributes to his heroes Joe Zawinul and Michael Brecker. Wolfgang Muthspiel - who made his first ECM appearance on 2013's Travel Guide as a member of a cooperative trio with fellow guitarists Ralph Towner and Slava Grigoryan - has enjoyed long, productive musical friendships live and on record with both Grenadier and Blade, leading to a sense of telepathic interplay on Driftwood. The guitarist has been praised by The Times for his "restless musical imagination".

At the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Muthspiel studied both classical and jazz guitar, subsequently winning national competitions for classical music as well as the International Guitar Competition in Mettman, Germany. Interested in improvisation from an early age, in 1986 he emigrated to the US to study at the New England Conservatory with teachers including Mick Goodrick. At The Berklee School of Music he met Gary Burton who invited him to join his quintet.

While based in New York from 1995 to 2002, he participated in a great variety of musical projects with artists including Rebekka Bakken, Trilok Gurtu, Youssou N'Dour, Gary Peacock, Dave Liebman, Peter Erskine and many others. Current projects include a duo with Brian Blade, a quartet featuring pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck, and a trio with Larry Grenadier and Chris Cheek. In addition to his jazz projects, Muthspiel writes for contemporary classical ensembles and has received commissions from the Ensemble for New Music Zurich, Kangforum Wien, The Austrian Ministry of Arts, the Boston-based Marimolin ensemble and more.

Personnel: Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Larry Grenadier (double bass), Brian Blade (drums) Review (4 stars) Blade is a poet of the drum set, and Grenadier a poised combination of solidity and unpredictability. Still, it is Muthspiel's range as a player and skill as a composer that define this darkly introspective work. --The Irish Times, (Cormac Larkin), June 6, 2014(4 stars) Driftwood only slowly reveals its secrets. The subtle details and reflective moods tend to mask the wide-ranging nature of Muthspiel's influences but they are all here...it's as soft-focus and elegant an ECM recording as you can get. --Jazzwise, (Selwyn Harris), July 2014(4 stars) Balancing careful understatement with intense and involved group interplay, Driftwood packs a considerable punch in the way atmosphere is built and improvisational direction unfolds. --Marlbank, (Stephen Graham), May 17, 2014Uptown, with its punchy strumming and tight Grenadier/Blade interventions, the snappy and eventually raw-toned Highline and the hymnally hip Bossa for Michael Brecker lift the intensity, and the acoustic, distantly Spanish Driftwood boldly makes a free improvisation into the title track. --The Guardian, (John Fordham), May 23, 2014Cambiata has a fine Spanish-tinged melody. Highline begins with electric guitar and arco bass - Grenadier has a great sound here reminiscent of Miroslav Vitous - then moves into an expansive guitar/drum duet over the simplest possible bass figure. Blade is unfailingly sympathetic throughout, and his attention to detail a marvel. Everything oozes quality, with the recording of the bass in particular coming across wonderfully...there is plenty to reward close listening once it gets your attention. --LondonJazzNews, (Jon Turney), June 17, 2014Grenadier's rich woody bass and Blade's gentle cymbal and tom-tom work on pieces like Cambiata and Madame Vonn is lovely. There is also some gorgeous arco work from Grenadier throughout the album. --The Jazz Breakfast, (Peter Bacon), June 18, 2014Autor:Wolfgang MuthspielNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2014Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.