Canada Day IV
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CD |
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7th |
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50.51 |
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Harris Eisenstadt, Tony Reif |
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Water Music, Hoboken, NJ |
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Canada Day IV is a jazz album by Harris Eisenstadt . The recordings, which were made in January 2015 at the Water Music studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, were released on September 4, 2015 on Songline Recordings .
background
When Harris Eisenstadt presented the fourth album of the Canada Day group, the drummer's ensemble had already been active for seven years. The group's configuration has not changed much since 2006: While one release in 2012 used the octet format, the consistently self-titled and numbered Canada Day releases remain in the quintet format , which consists of drums, vibraphone, trumpet, tenor saxophone and bass . Only the last instrument has seen personnel changes; from Eivind Opsvik in the first two recordings to Garth Stevenson in the third to Pascal Niggenkemper in the fourth studio production. The other members are Chris Dingman on vibraphone, Nate Wooley on trumpet, Matt Bauder on tenor saxophone and Eisenstadt himself on drums.
Track list
- Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day IV (Songlines Recordings SGL 1614-2)
- After Several Snowstorms 7:12
- Sometimes It's Hard to Get Dressed In The Morning 4:29
- Let's Say It Comes in Waves 7:38
- Life's Hurtling Passage Onward 9:09
- What Can Be Set to the Side 4:08
- What's Equal to What 10:27
- Meli Melo 7:50
reception
In the opinion of Troy Collins, who awarded the album in All About Jazz with four stereos, the quintet had developed an identifiable cohesive sound aesthetic in the previous years, which skilfully harmonized avant-garde explorations and a swinging manner of time play and phrasing. Eisenstadt's compositions for the ensemble expand postmodern jazz traditions in a fascinating way, says Collins. At this point he quotes Eisenstadt, who noted: " I wanted to delve deeper into the possibilities of solo, duo, trio and quartet dreams within the ensemble ... in order to constantly change the amount of sound information, weight and volume ." The band expanded their spectrum significantly on their fourth album, deriving expanded variations on pliable shapes that had been tested on several tours and residencies in the previous year, Collins wrote. Eisenstadt's memorable themes, underpinned by melodic melodies, showed a great ability to interpret, even during episodes of wanton deconstruction , such as the heated collective climax of "What Can Be Set to the Side".
Derek Stone wrote in the Free Jazz Blog that Eisenstadt had managed to release several albums with idiosyncratic, hybridized jazz with the Canada Day band project. Although the pieces are undoubtedly composed, the structures of the music are spacious and the tempo calm; each player would have enough time to explore the architecture, explore interesting trails, and put their own markings on everything, Stone wrote. "All in all, this is a more than worthy inclusion in Harris Eisenstadt's Canada Day recordings, and it could well be the best [so far]," the author sums up.
Vincenzo Roggero also wrote in All About Jazz that the fourth chapter of the series confirms the quintet of the drummer / composer Harris Eisenstadt as an extremely valuable formation with a strong and clearly defined sound, which is equipped with great cleanliness and precision and clear planning. One is reminded of certain combos from the 1950s that circled the cool jazz galaxy, from the more orthodox stylism to the more experimental and somewhat anticipatory fringes of the movement, the rise of the musical revolution through free jazz . Careful attention to the sound, particular care with the arrangements , chronometric organization of the movements on the one hand, often adventurous solos and somewhat unbridled improvisations on the other hand as well as the continuous division of the staff into subgroups ensured a guessed mixture of form and freedom, references to the past and a look into the future of jazz, says Roggero. All the musicians are in great shape; Pascal Niggenkemper has a wonderful and imaginative sound, Matt Bauder's tenor saxophone rides “on the melodies with the serenity of the classics and the cheek of those who are used to going beyond the limits of the key. Chris Dingman expanded the role of the pulse generator vibraphone and Eisenstadt worked cymbals and drums with the precision of a surgeon and the colors of a palette. which she delivers, attracts attention through the flowing changes in the register and the way the sentences are placed between lyric and abstraction.
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
- Information about the album at Songlines Recordings
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Derek Stone: Canada Day IV. Free Jazz Blog, May 6, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2020 .
- ^ Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day IV at Discogs
- ↑ Canada Day IV. All About Jazz, May 6, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2020 .
- ^ Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day IV. All About Jazz, December 6, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2020 (Italian).