Cherry - sakura
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| Studio album by Aki Takase and David Murray | ||||
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| Label (s) | Intakt Records | |||
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CD |
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11 |
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50:45 |
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| occupation | 8th
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Patrik Landolt, Florian Keller |
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DRS Studio Zurich |
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Cherry - Sakura is a duo album by Aki Takase and David Murray . The recordings made on April 30, 2016 in the SRF studio in Zurich were released on February 17, 2017 by Intakt Records .
background
The collaboration between the Japanese-born pianist Aki Takase, who has lived in Berlin since the 1980s, and the American saxophonist and bass clarinetist David Murray, who has lived in Paris since the 1990s, dates back to 1993, when the two gave their homage to Thelonious Monk with the title Blue Monk published by Enja . Their cooperation continued with the live album Valencia (Sound Hills), recorded in 2002 at the Munich Lustspielhaus , which contained a Monk medley. On Cherry - Sakura there is also a Monk composition, "Let's Cool One".
Takase contributed four original compositions. In the almost 10-minute melancholy-pensive title track “Cherry - Sakura”, based on a short story by Ango Sakaguchi, about transience, using the example of cherry blossoms in an enchanted forest, the two present a broad spectrum of moods and emotions - interspersed with solo excursions . Takase dedicates “Nobuko” to her recently deceased mother.
Track list
- Aki Takase - David Murray: Cherry Sakura (Intakt Records CD 278)
- Cherry - Sakura (Aki Takase) 9:20
- A Very Long Letter (Aki Takase) 5:44
- Let's Cool One (Thelonious Monk) 5:41
- To AP Kern (David Murray) 5:55
- Stressology (David Murray) 6:27
- Nobuko (Aki Takase) 6:18
- Blues for David (Aki Takase) 4:52
- A Long March to Freedom (David Murray) 6:28
reception
Peter Füßl wrote in the cultural magazine , “Let's Cool One”, the only third-party composition on the album, but “in its funny lightheartedness with creaking bass clarinet over stride- laden piano runs, a kind of counterpoint to the mostly more serious-looking compositions of the two exceptional musicians who are in front especially in their high demands on an avant-garde and creative approach to the jazz tradition. ”The author sums up the album as a document of“ an impressive musical dialogue ”.
Bill Shoemaker wrote in the liner notes of the album: ““ Cherry - Sakura ”is a wonderful conversation about the big questions of life of two artists who have already experienced everything at least once in their lives. To revive an outdated jazz saying, Takase and Murray say something with this album. In one sentence: maturity is everything. "
Cherry - Sakura was included in the quarterly best list of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in May 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Füssl: Aki Takase / David Murray: Cherry - Sakura. Kulturzeitschrift, March 14, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Aki Takase - David Murray: Cherry Sakura at Discogs
- ↑ Aki Takase - David Murray: Cherry Sakura on Intakt Records
- ↑ Best List 2017. German Record Critics' Prize, May 16, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2020 .