Canada Day II
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| Label (s) | Clean Feed Records | |||
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CD |
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9 |
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48:22 |
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Harris Eisenstadt |
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Studio (s) |
East Side Sound, New York City |
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Canada Day II is a jazz album by Harris Eisenstadt with his quintet Canada Day . Recorded on December 4, 2010 at East Side Sound Studio , New York City, it was released on Clean Feed Records in 2011 . It was the ensemble's second album after their 2009 debut album Canada Day .
background
In 2005 the drummer Harris Eisenstadt founded his quintet Canada Day , which would develop into his longest-lived ensemble. In addition to the band leader, it consisted of Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Bauder (tenor saxophone), Chris Dingman (vibraphone) and Eivind Opsvik (bass). After the group's debut album in 2009, the second album followed two years later, also on the Clean Feed label with the same line-up. Eisenstadt wrote half of the titles on Canada Day II around the time of his son's birth; one title is dedicated to his child and the emergence of two others is associated with public schools. That's why Eisenstadt wanted the cover to be reminiscent of childhood summers at camp. Indeed, much of this second album by the drummer's Canada Day ensemble has "a pervasive brightness and childlike innocence that is a subtle but palpable evolution of their more edgy self-titled debut album," wrote John Sharpe.
Track list
- Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day II (Clean Feed SGL 1589-2)
- Cobble Hook 4:42
- To Seventeen 5:10
- Song for Owen [For Owen Eisenstadt] 4:55
- Now Longer 8:14
- To Eh 5:37
- To Be 6:44
- To See / Tootie 8:28
- Judo With Tokyo Joe [For John Zorn] 4:32
- All compositions are by Harris Eisenstadt.
reception
According to Mark Corroto, who gave the album a four (out of five) star rating in All About Jazz , Eisenstadt “gives every recording a lift and a good mood, much like his fellow drummers Matt Wilson and John Hollenbeck .” His compositions are based on seemingly simple melodies that are executed with increasing complexity. This task is handled by the outstanding cast of the next generation of jazz stars, wrote Corroto. In “Now Longer”, for example, the band draws on the sound aesthetics of Bobby Hutcherson and Tony Williams from the 1960s, with Eisenstadt working on the cymbals for the drive and his players exploring some advanced techniques while Dingman colors the canvas of the song on the vibraphone . The glue here is the eternal groove , says the author, be it from the drummer, bassist or vibraphone as in "To Be", someone always carries the freight. This makes for better solos and a razor-sharp sound.
Also in All About Jazz, John Sharpe wrote that it was almost a knee-jerk reaction from critics to claim that any group that uses vibraphone instead of piano - this time Chris Dingman - recollects the 1960s Blue Note records with Bobby Hutcherson evoke, but Eisenstadt's band “does that and more. The brass pair of saxophonist Matt Bauder and trumpeter Nate Wooley fit seamlessly into the contemporary mainstream in terms of melodic inventions and rhythmic sophistication, stretching conventions, sometimes near the limit. Matt Bauder exudes authority in a range of styles and moves safely from breathless Ben Webster isms to controlled overblowing by John Coltrane , "the author says. "The only constant that remains are the unexpected twists and turns in his unconventional phrasing ." Wooley often contributes the counterpart, which often remains within the harmonic contours of a piece, only that its tone then splinters and crumbles into noises: its rapid stuttering Solo in the multi-part “To See / Tootie” is a perfect example of this, according to Sharpe. Despite his leading role, Eisenstadt remained largely in the background as a drummer and only appeared in the staggering intro of the opening number "Cobble Hook". But together with Eivind Opsvik he elegantly maintains control and accelerates or decelerates the pace in a relaxed but wiry swing. "Dingman's bright chimes color the ensemble contributions and crash in waves, but sometimes, like in" Judo for Tokyo Joe (for John Zorn ), "they remind of the percussive ring of Steel Pans in an Americana- inspired setting."
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mark Corroto: Harris Eisenstadt. Canada Day II All About Jazz, March 24th 2011, accessed on May 11, 2020 (English).
- ^ A b John Sharpe: Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day II. All About Jazz, September 22, 2011, accessed on May 11, 2020 (English).
- ^ Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day II at Discogs