Immediate sound
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| Live album from The Thing with Ken Vandermark | ||||
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| Label (s) | Smalltown super jazz | |||
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CD |
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4th |
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38:04 |
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Ken Vandermark, The Thing |
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The Hideout, Chicago |
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Immediate Sounds is a jazz album from The Thing with Ken Vandermark . The recordings, which were made in April 2006 in concert at The Hideout , Chicago, were released on October 12, 2007 on the Oslo label Smalltown Superjazz .
background
The Thing is a trio of Mats Gustafsson on saxophone, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on bass and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, which has been in existence since 2000 , named after a Don Cherry composition and originally focused on Cherry's music. On this album the group was accompanied by Ken Vandermark, who had previously played with the three musicians. The title of the album referred to Ken Vandermark's series of events at Chicago's Hideout Club. It was recorded live on the first anniversary of the series, and it was the first time The Thing and Vandermark performed together in the United States. The four musicians had previously played together regularly in different constellations for more than a decade, in many bands and projects (including AALY Trio, School Days, Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and Vandermark's Territory Bands, Free Fall and his duos with Paal Nilssen-Love ).
Track list
- The Thing with Ken Vandermark: Immediate Sound (Smalltown Superjazz STSJ105CD)
- Immediate Sound, Pt. 1 - 11:35
- Immediate Sound, Pt. 2-2:22
- Immediate Sound, Pt. 3 - 9:42
- Immediate Sound, Pt. 4-14:25
- All compositions are by Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love.
reception
According to Eyal Hareuveni, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , the level of communication on the recording was impressive. As the title suggests, this live recording offers a burning and lively immediacy that flows with strength and energy, telepathic interplay and exemplary muscular, if not necessarily male, dynamism.
Daniel Spicer wrote in Jazz Wise that with this 38-minute live set, The Thing plunged headlong into the classic American free jazz sound of the 60s, without looking at cover versions. This is mainly thanks to the brilliantly played contributions by Ken Vandermark, who constantly throws in his typical licks , which gives the usual brutal attitude of the trio a certain funkyness. There are also more carefully considered moments - like Nilssen Love's hi-hat solo, which is reminiscent of Max Roach's reduced determination. But for the most part, it's the blazing, muscular, almost impossible macho madness that we expect from these jazz men.
The Free Jazz Blog reviewer wrote, “These musicians are who they are, and it doesn't take long before their hyperkinetic urges bring them back to where they excel, namely in energy fields where emotions and forces exist and blend with them Creativity connects, first jamming, but then towards the end they meet in an interesting interplay between spontaneous unison melody and deep counterpoint . Breathtaking. "
Web links
- Information about the album at Bandcamp
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vandermark Galore ... Free Jazz Blog, October 28, 2007, accessed on July 17, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b Eyal Hareuveni: The Thing with Ken Vandermark and Two Bands & A Legend: Collaborative Furies. All About Jazz, December 1, 2007, accessed July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ The Thing with Ken Vandermark - Immediate Sound at Discogs
- ^ Daniel Spicer: The Thing with Ken Vandermark - Immediate Sound. Jazz Wise, March 29, 2008, accessed July 17, 2020 .