Acoustic machine

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Acoustic machine
Studio album by Ken Vandermark & The Vandermark 5

Publication
(s)

2001

Label (s) Atavistic Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Free jazz , postbop

Title (number)

12

running time

1:14:43

occupation

production

Vandermark 5

Studio (s)

Airwave Recording Studios, Chicago

chronology
Burn the Incline
(2000) 		Acoustic machine Free Jazz Classics Vol. 1 & 2
(2002)
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Acoustic Machine is a jazz album by Ken Vandermark & The Vandermark 5. The recordings made on January 10th and 11th 2001 at Airwave Recording Studios, Chicago were released in 2001 on Atavistic Records .

background

Acoustic Machine was the fifth album by the quintet The Vandermark 5 around the Chicago woodwind player Ken Vandermark, who also wrote all the compositions. He continues to dedicate each composition to his musical ancestors, as he does here with Archie Shepp , Stan Getz , Julius Hemphill , Elvin Jones and Lester Young . “But each dedication is just a starting point for his quintet,” noted Mark Corroto. In contrast to the “Young Lions” of neoclassicism in jazz, the members of this quintet are not condemned to repeat the music of their fathers. Her dedication to Lester Young in "Stranger Blues" begins with Kent Kessler playing a traditional baseline and Tim Mulvenna working out a regular pulse. They played with full respect for Lester Young (as with every dedication), according to the author, but the quintet goes beyond a "Lester Young sound" and makes the music their own. Vandermark emphasized the ensemble playing and the individual voices of his band.

Track list

  • The Vandermark 5: Acoustic Machine (Atavistic ALP128CD)
  1. Main station 4 1:35
  2. Auto Topography (For Archie Shepp ) 9:35
  3. Fall to Grace (For Elvin Jones ) 13:44
  4. Main station 2 0:44
  5. License Complete (For Julius Hemphill ) 7:43
  6. Coast to Coast (For Stan Getz ) 7:08
  7. Main station 3 0:25
  8. Close Enough (For Robert Capa ) 12:23
  9. Main station 1 0:25
  10. Wind Out (For William Klein) 10:28
  11. Stranger Blues (For Lester Young ) 9:15 am
  12. Main station 5 0:48
  • All compositions are by Ken Vandermark.

Editor's note

The 2-LP edition The Vandermark 5 - Acoustic Machine (Atavistic ALP128CD), limited to 1,500 copies and released in 2002, also contained the following titles:

  1. Wherever June Bugs Go (Archie Shepp) 11:44
  2. King Korn / Calls ( Carla Bley ) 9:05
  3. The Earth / Jerry [The Moon] ( Frank Wright ) 12:30
  4. Scootin 'About ( Jimmy Giuffre ) 7:05
  5. CME / G Song (Julius Hemphill) 10:21
  6. There Is the Bomb ( Don Cherry ) 10:29

reception

Thom Jurek gave the album in Allmusic 4½ (out of five) stars and wrote that the last two Vandermark 5 albums, Simpatico and Burn the Incline , were undoubtedly the sounds of a band that had made themselves their own as a work as a collective. At Acoustic Machine , Ken Vandermark has become a composer who not only convinces with new jazz, but also with the Vandermark 5 as a unit. His writing and arranging for Jeb Bishop, Tim Mulvenna, Kent Kessler and Dave Rempis is player-specific, and he adjusts certain sections, modes and intervals to suit the strengths of particular players, thereby increasing their contributions to the unit. Acoustic Machine proves on its own that the V5 are simply the most exciting group of young musicians on the US jazz front, sums up Jurek.

According to Mark Corroto, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , Acoustic Machine , the fifth installment of Vandermark 5 , contained the mature voices of Chicago jazz and those of the highly talented musicians that make up this more common band. In the course of the existence of his group, Vandermark has adjusted to composing to use the strengths of every musician. Whether in the fiery medium of Archie Shepps' vocabulary in "Auto Topography" or in the coolness of Stan Getz in "Coast to Coast" - the quintet overlay the group play and also overlap the solos, thus avoiding the boredom of a theme-solo-theme situation will.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ark Corroto: The Vandermark 5: Acoustic Machine. All About Jazz, November 1, 2001, accessed June 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The Vandermark 5: Acoustic Machine at Discogs
  3. ↑ The Vandermark 5 - Acoustic Machine (Atavistic ALP128CD) at Discogs
  4. ↑ Review of Thom Jurek's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 1, 2020.