9-11 PM Town Hall

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9-11 PM Town Hall
Live album by Daniel Humair , Jean-François Jenny-Clark , Joachim Kühn , Martial Solal , Michel Portal , Marc Ducret

Publication
(s)

1988

admission

June 29, 1988

Label (s) Label Bleu

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

7th

running time

75:43

occupation
  • Drums - Daniel Humair (except 3)
  • Piano - Joachim Kühn (1,2, 5-7), Martial Solal (3,4)

production

Michel Orier

Studio (s)

Live at the JVC Jazz Festival, Town Hall, New York City

9-11 PM Town Hall is a jazz album by Daniel Humair , Jean-François Jenny-Clark , Joachim Kühn , Martial Solal , Michel Portal and Marc Ducret , recorded live at the Town Hall in New York City in 1988.

background

The year before, Humair had met the American impresario George Wein again at the Festival du jazz in Nice and agreed with him to come to the JVC Jazz Festival . There he was given the opportunity to organize an evening with musicians of his choice. He took some of his old companions with him to the concert, which took place on June 29, 1988 between 9 and 11 p.m., including the pianists Martial Solal and Joachim Kühn, the multi-instrumentalist Michel Portal, the bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark and the guitarist Marc Ducret as well as Didier Lockwood and Hélène Labarrière . Excerpts from this concert curated by Humair are documented on the album; is not an appearance with Lockwood and Labarrière, but in the resulting from the same event documentary Jazz français à New York by Christian Palligiano occurs. The music on the album was also used in the film's soundtrack.

The album combines elements of post-bop and modern creative , partly underlaid with Latino and tango rhythms. An appearance by Humair in the regularly working trio with Kühn and Jenny-Clark was followed by a solo by Solal, which then continued in the trio with Jenny-Clark and Humair. The conclusion was formed by a quartet around Michel Portal (Portal joined the trio Kühn-Jenny-Clark-Humair), which was initially expanded to include the guitarist Marc Ducret.

In the booklet of the CD, photos by Guy Le Querrec show the musicians in the backstage area of ​​the Town Hall and on a ship in front of Manhattan.

reception

Commenting on the album, which received four stars out of five, Ken Dryden on Allmusic wrote:

“Swiss drummer Daniel Humair is the de facto leader on this all-star meeting at Town Hall in New York City during the 1988 JVC Jazz Festival. […]. Full of surprises, this Label Bleu CD has lapsed from print and is becoming increasingly difficult to find. "

“The Swiss drummer Daniel Humair is the de facto leader at this all-star meeting in the Town Hall of New York City during the JVC Jazz Festival in 1988. […] This label bleu CD full of surprises is no longer being imprinted and is increasingly difficult to find. "

Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded the album the highest rating of four stars in The Penguin Guide to Jazz . For the authors, the album is not only a successful introduction to the music of the performers, but it is also "an essential document of contemporary European jazz."

Track list

  1. From Time to Time Free (Kühn) - 6:32
  2. Easy to Read (Kühn) - 6:58
  3. Medley (Solal) - 13:26
  4. Aigue Marine - Coming Yesterday (Solal) - 9:28
  5. Pastor (portal) - 12:23
  6. Alto Blues (Portal) - 19:26
  7. Changement (Kühn) - 7:30

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Liner Notes of the album
  2. Review of Ken Dryden's album at allmusic.com. Retrieved December 28, 2013 .
  3. ^ Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz. London 1994, p. 635.