Annular poison
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| Live album by Ken Vandermark & The Vandermark 5 | ||||
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| Label (s) | Not Two Records | |||
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6th |
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Alchemia, Krakow |
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Annular Gift is a jazz album by Ken Vandermark & The Vandermark 5. The recordings, which were made on March 14th and 15th, 2009 at the Alchemia jazz club in Krakow, were released in 2009 on Not Two Records .
background
Woodwind, composer and bandleader Ken Vandermark has led his flagship quintet The Vandermark 5 through a decade of personnel changes, wrote Troy Collins. The line-up on this album had been active for three years and was already documented on two studio records: A Discontinuous Line (Atavistic, 2006) and Beat Reader (Atavistic, 2008). Annular Gift is the first live album of this band line-up with Vandermark (who has returned to tenor), Dave Rempis (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello, electronics), Kent Kessler (bass) and Tim Daisy on drums.
Track list
- The Vandermark 5: Annular Gift (Not Two Records - MW 825-2)
- Game (for Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill) 20:27
- Table, Skull and Bottles (for Bruno Johnson) 10:45 am
- Early Color (for Saul Leiter) 11:42
- Second Marker (for Ab Baars) 9:31
- Cement (For Michael Haberz) 12:29
- Cadmium Orange (for Francis Bacon) 8:44
- All compositions are by Ken Vandermark.
reception
According to Troy Collins, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , the ensemble's sound remained remarkably consistent despite the band's rotating roster. The quintet is a power pack that is capable of both cheerful delicacy and unrestricted intensity. It has won a legion of fans around the world for its uncompromising vision of contemporary creative improvised music. For 11 years, Vandermark has done a phenomenal job of keeping this group together, which is not only vital but also inspiring. “ Annular Gift proves that their second decade looks as promising as the first.” Mark Corroto, who also reviewed the album for All About Jazz , came to a similar conclusion: “ Annular Gift is perhaps the finest work by this traditional ensemble. "
Steve Greenlee wrote in the Boston Globe that The Vandermark 5 has “become the gold standard in American punk jazz, if you can call it that. Ken Vandermark… plays acoustic jazz with an aggressive rock-music attitude. “It is a powerful group that should best be experienced live. The killer number on the CD is the raging “Cement”, perhaps the strongest melody that Vandermark has written so far.
Łukasz Iwasiński states in his criticism in the Polish Jazz Forum that hardly anyone like Vandermark can translate the concepts of the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s into a contemporary language, also rhythmically and melodically. He proves that again with Annular Gift . The band works “like a well-oiled machine here - precise, dynamic, motorized, and the rough parts of the cello by Fred Lonberg-Holm, who has acclimatized in the group, give the music a kick. Strong, communicative, well-structured topics as well as very reliable improvisations, which oscillate between subdued decay and passionate, dense streams of sound, still give a lot of joy. ”Despite this charismatic, expressive band, however, it is difficult to find something new here that you can understand don't know the band's productions very well. In this respect, the feeling of deja vu can also arise.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stylistic classification according to discogs
- ^ A b Troy Collins: Vandermark 5: Annular Gift. All About Jazz, October 31, 2009, accessed July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ The Vandermark 5: Annular Gift at Discogs
- ↑ Mark Corroto: Vandermark 5: Annular Gift (album review). All About Jazz, October 28, 2009, accessed July 3, 2020 .
- ^ Vandermark 5: Annular Gift. Boston Globe, May 6, 2009, accessed July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Łukasz Iwasiński: Vandermark 5: Annular Gift. In: Jazz Forum. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .