Chicago Conversations
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| Label (s) | Creative Works Records | |||
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Peter A. Schmid |
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Chicago Conversations is a jazz album by Peter A. Schmid that was recorded on August 31, 2014 at the Strober Recording Studio in Chicago. The recordings were released in 2015 on the Swiss music label Creative Works Records .
background
In February 2013, Father A. Schmid, Marc Stucki and Thomas Mejer performed at the Jazzwerkstatt Festival in Bern together with Keefe Jackson's band Likely So , in which Wacław Zimpel , Mars Williams and Dave Rempis were playing ( A Round Goal ). The following year Schmid met again with Keefe Jackson and musicians in his environment during a stay in Chicago; a number of titles were created in trio and duo constellations, including Michael Zerang (“Candlesticks”, “Zerosch” and “Trio”), Wacław Zimpel (“Clarinetrio” and “Twoclarinet”), Frank Rosaly (“Zerosch "And" Drum 'n' Bass "), Albert Wildeman (" Trio "and" Contrabasics "), Josh Berman and Nick Broste (" Windy City ") were involved.
Track list
- Peter A. Schmid: Chicago Conversations (Creative World CW 1061)
- Candlesticks # 1 (Schmid / Zerang / Rosaly)
- Candlesticks # 2 dto
- Candlesticks # 3 dto
- Candlesticks # 4 dto
- Clarinetrio # 2 (Schmid / Jackson / Zimpel)
- Clarinetrio # 4 dto
- Clarinetrio # 5 dto
- Clarinetrio # 6 dto
- Clarinetrio # 8 dto
- Clarinetrio # 9 dto
- Zerosch # 1 (Schmid / Zerang / Rosaly)
- Zerosch # 2 dto
- Trio (Schmid / Wildeman / Zerang)
- Windy City # 1 (Schmid / Berman)
- Windy City # 2 dto
- Windy City # 3 (Schmid / Broste)
- Twosax # 1 (Schmid / Jackson)
- Twosax # 2 dto
- Twosax # 4 dto
- Twoclarinet # 1 (Schmid / Zimpel)
- Twoclarinet # 2 dto
- Contrabasics # 1 (Schmid / Wildeman)
- Contrabasics # 2 dto
- Drum 'n' Bass (Schmid / Rosaly)
reception
Alberto Bazzurro wrote in the Italian edition of All About Jazz , "24 very small pieces make this very exciting work" by the 57-year-old Zurich multi-instrumentalist Peter A. Schmid, who recorded it in a single day, divided into five duets (one of his Specialties, as he had shown in encounters with countless partners such as Evan Parker , Ned Rothenberg and Vinny Golia ). The recording also contains nine trios. The preference, as it often occurs in Schmid's music, is usually in the lower registers , preferably played with the baritone saxophone, bass clarinet and double bass clarinet , and all around it is surrounded by other deep clarinets, as well as the double bass, trombone, being there "An album with a stringent, almost rough cohesion" was created, "in which even the percussion plays a central role in at least seven episodes, and mostly uses mild timbres as a strictly rhythmic style".
The music on the album, Bazzurro continues, appears "sometimes dark to almost ghostly, not infrequently along the suggestive hill that separates sound and silence from one another (but at the same time unites)", for example in Clarinetrio # 4 or in Windy City # 1 nervous and fragmentary or again in a triptych. In the drum 'n' bass that concludes the album, the longest piece on the album at 5:41, the duo clarinet / percussion (Schmid / Rosaly) can be found, “which takes off in a discreet, modest way and then gradually turns into a progressive crescendo (also always in a controlled manner) and reveals itself a bit like the quintessence and like an ideal paradigm of the entire work.
Manfred Pabst said in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that the saxophonist Peter A. Schmid was “a phenomenon.” Schmid's music was “always radical and demanding. Anyone looking for entertainment and relaxation is out of place with this intellectual tomboy. But if you have the necessary curiosity, you will be richly rewarded. ”Schmid plays on his new CD“ with seven top-class musicians, such as the brass players Keefe Jackson, Waclaw Zimpel, Josh Berman and Nick Broste. Bass and drums are occasionally added, but not a harmony instrument . Free jazz , of course! But no informal energy play, but wide-awake, dense interaction. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 22, 2019)
- ↑ a b Peter A. Schmid: Chicago Conversations at PaachArt
- ↑ Alberto Bazzurro: Peter A. Schmid: Chicago Conversations (Review). All About Jazz, March 11, 2016, accessed February 2, 2018 (Italian).