Azure

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AzureOpis:Product Description Azure features beautiful duets by two great improvisers whose compatibility was proven long ago. Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell made outstanding music together in Marilyn's trio with the late Paul Motian on ECM albums including Nothing ever was, anyway and Amaryllis - each a modern classic - but their duo project also has an extensive history, until now undocumented on disc. With their shared sense of lyricism, their individual compositional styles and their profound background in free playing, Peacock and Crispell are exceptional musical partners. The album contains pieces written by both Peacock and Crispell, and highly inventive, utterly absorbing piano and bass solos. Highlights range from the sublimely melodic (the Peacock-penned "Lullaby") and lyrically pensive (Crispell's "Goodbye") to the athletically bracing (Crispell's "Patterns") and folksong-like (Peacock's moving "The Lea"). Then there are the duo's freely improvised pieces of astonishing cohesiveness, including "Blue", "Leapfrog" and the entrancing title track, "Azure". That was named by Crispell, coming from "the sense of spaciousness I felt with the music," she says. "The image of an open blue sea or sky came to me."Azure was recorded in upstate New York, home territory for both musicians. Along with their shared geography and longstanding musical ties, Crispell and Peacock have in common a certain life rhythm. "We have a connection via meditation and Buddhism," the pianist points out. "We have even meditated together while on tour."Personnel: Marilyn Crispell (piano), Gary Peacock (double bass) Review 'Most of the items have a clear 'hook' set up by piano or bass, it's only the three bearing a joint credit that build their momentum from non-thematic interplay. But the strength of the players is such that the interplay carries the listener along throughout.' -- Jazzwise, (Brian Priestley), August 2013 * * * *'Crispell was an unruly free-jazz keyboard cyclone for years, but now combines that command in dizzyingly open situations with delicacy and patience; Peacock, a deep-rooted standard-songs player, has a voluminous vocabulary that doesn't desert him at the point when song structures dissolve.' -- The Guardian, (John Fordham), July 12, 2013 * * * *'On this delicate, beautifully poised set, it is a mark of both players' openness and integrity that they don't cleave to any particular style but follow wherever the music takes them - from near-abstract improvisations to lyrical blues - and folk-tinged compositions.' -- The Irish Times, (Cormac Larkin), August 9, 2013 * * * *'Azure challenges the listener with an accessible familiarity or so it seems; but it's above all an album that values the mystery of experience, the seeking and the sought.' -- Marlbank, (Stephen Graham), June 10, 2013 * * * *'The finely honed understanding they show throughout this well programmed - and recorded - album goes way back to their trio work with Paul Motian...the translucent play of free improvisation and compositional logic on the present disc makes it something special.' -- Jazz Journal, (Michael Tucker), October 2013 * * * *'Some tracks may require patient listening but what's immediately clear is the variety of approaches here, from Waltz After David M's lovely old-world charm and Lullaby's thoughtful, dramatic progression to Puppets' more abstract figures and Leapfrog's knotty calls and responses.' --Sunday Herald, (Rob Adams), July 21, 2013Autor:Gary PeacockNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2013Waga: 0.02 gramWysokość: 0.5 cmSzerokość: 4.9 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.