Canada Day III
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Canada Day III is a jazz album by Harris Eisenstadt with his quintet Canada Day . The recordings made on March 7, 2012 were released in July 2012 on Songlines Records .
background
Canada Day III is the third album after Canada Day (Clean Feed, 2008) and Canada Day II (Songlines, 2011) that drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt recorded with his regular quintet Canada Day . For the bassist Eivind Opsvik was Garth Stevenson came into the band, who already talking about the from this period in expanded formation Album Canada Day Octet ( 482 Music was involved, 2012). Some of the titles are based on material that Eisenstadt originally wrote for a well-composed orchestral work that premiered at Columbia University in June 2011.
Track list
- Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III (Songlines Recordings SGL 1596-2)
- Slow and steady
- Settled
- A Whole New Amount of Interactivity
- The Magician of Lublin
- Song for Sara
- Nosy Parker
- Shuttle Off This Mortal Coil
- King of the Kutiriba
- All compositions are by Harris Eisenstadt.
reception
According to S. Victor Aaron, who wrote the album in Something Else! reviewed, the partnership between Wooley and Bauder lifts the songs off the ground and sometimes to great heights. Wooley let go of a “nasty trumpet explosion” in the piece “Nosey Parker” (German: “Schnüffler”), followed by Bauder's more elegant formulations. The interplay is particularly good with “Slow and Steady”, where at some point they go back and forth note by note. “A Whole New Amount of Interactivity” is a “great masterpiece” for Stevenson, where he plays in unison with Dingman, occasionally leaning on other performers, and at other times pushing the repetitive theme vigorously while others on the harmonic basis played. His walking bass drives "The Magician of Lublin", a song that also features Wooley's gut-muffled trumpet, the kind of raw expression often heard by Eisenstadt's players.
Mark Corroto gave the album 4½ stars and wrote in All About Jazz , although the drummer claims not to write pieces for individual players and their styles, the “unique sounding Nate Wooley is unmistakable. Partly perfect chamber player and partly growling free jazz trumpeter, his dialogue with saxophonist Matt Bauder is consistently miraculous. ”The freedom of the quintet in a free play always takes place in the responsibility for the compositions. The composed music is performed on the album with a freedom that defies logic, but continues to function perfectly.
Also in All About Jazz, John Sharpe wrote that the third episode of the Canada Day adventure by drummer Harris Eisenstadt follows the same formula for success as the two previous albums and forms a distinctive niche in the border areas of contemporary jazz on the Blue Note territory of the 1960s by pianist Andrew Hill and woodwinds Sam Rivers and Eric Dolphy . Recorded after a tour, the band thoroughly internalized the program, which has harder edges than on their previous albums, and created a perfect balance between well thought-out arrangements and space for individual musicians to shine. Even if Eisenstadt was limited to a quintet, it used an orchestral concept. An African influence can be seen in the erratic lines that rhythmically distribute the melody line in the ensemble. Each piece has multiple sections and tempos, but they don't manifest as a series of nervous jump cuts. Instead, there is an inner logic and an inner flow that make it seem deceptively simple. With this album, Eisenstadt has “developed into one of the best authors for small groups”, who further expands and improves this with a completed album.
Aaron Novik (Bird Is the Worm) wrote that Eisenstadt consistently released challenging recordings. He plays with compositions, delving into the process of creating them, giving them meaning and function, then deciphering the implications of that meaning and function, and then reworking things. Even if Canada Day III is an accessible recording as far as these things are concerned, the author has a hard time "taking it all in".
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b John Sharpe: Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III. All About Jazz, October 3, 2012, accessed May 19, 2020 .
- ^ S. Victor Aaron: Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day III and Canada Day Octet (2012). Something Else !, July 6, 2015, accessed May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Mark Corroto: Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III. All About Jazz, July 12, 2012, accessed May 19, 2020 .
- ^ Aaron Novik: Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III. Bird Is the Worm, January 3, 2013, accessed May 19, 2020 .