Love & Peace
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Love & Peace is a jazz album by the Joachim Kühn New Trio with Chris Jennings (double bass) and Eric Schaefer (drums). The recordings were made in France on May 15 and 16, 2017 and were published by ACT on January 26, 2018 .
background
After the New Trio had covered two tracks by the Doors (“ Riders on the Storm ” and “ The End ”) on the previous album Beauty & Truth , the present album features an interpretation of “ The Crystal Ship ” from 1967. The trio sits down also dealt with a lesser-known composition by Ornette Coleman , "Night Plans", which Kühn originally recorded as a duo with Coleman on the album Colors: Live from Leipzig (1997). All other compositions are by Joachim Kühn; Jennings and Schaefer each contribute one composition, another by Modest Mussorgsky .
Track list
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- Joachim Kühn New Trio: Love & Peace (ACT 9861-2)
- Love And Peace 1:59
- La Vieux Chateau (Modest Mussorgsky) 4:12
- The Crystal Ship (The Doors) 3:19
- Mustang 5:14
- Barcelona - Vienna 3:50
- But Strokes Of Folk 4:14
- Song without words No. 2 (Eric Schaefer) 3:43
- Casbah Radio (Chris Jennings) 3:52
- Night Plans (Ornette Coleman) 4:17
- New Pharoah 5:20
- Phrases 6:31
- All other compositions are by Joachim Kühn.
reception
Brian Marley ( London Jazz News ) compares the current trio with the recordings of Joachim Kühn's earlier trio with J.-F. Jenny-Clark (bass) and Daniel Humair (drums), was one of the large, albeit underrated, groups of the 1980s and 1990s. “They mixed lyrical free-flowing improvisation with memorable compositions (mostly written by Kühn) and a pinch of standards, to which they always brought something fresh and valuable. Albums like From Time to Time Free and Live 1989 (both on CMP ) were benchmark recordings in terms of strong group interaction and a balanced material program, ”says the author. In Marley's opinion, Kühn's current trio brought "a high degree of nervousness and urgency into his music, which later became less persistent, measured, but no less adept." With this, the new trio with Chris Jennings and Eric Schaefer of course ties in with the later ones Recordings of Kühn, Jenny-Clark and Humair. The rich harmonic material that Kühn brings out of Coleman's rather uncomplicated melody is really something special. As with everything else on Love & Peace , it takes repeated listening "to fully understand the subtle complexity of this trio's music, but it is well worth the effort."
Michael Scheiner ( Jazzzeitung ) wrote: “Kühn sounds like Kühn, but at the same time different than usual. Under his astonishingly relaxed approach, the Love & Peace album sounds noticeably calmer, more relaxed, you could even say more age-wise than anything else you know about him. "There are still" exciting twitching and unrestrained moments ", but they are rar. Drummer Eric Schaefer and the Canadian bassist Chris Jennings accompany the pianistic excursions “unobtrusively grooving, accentuating with sensitivity and casual nonchalance.” Despite the rather calm impression that the album makes, “dense, fast moments kept appearing, hard and precise contoured sound images in which dissonances are mixed and - fine humor, well dosed and played out with a smile. "
According to Karl Ackermann ( All About Jazz ), the eleven songs from Love & Peace are “compact and crisp with straight melodies”, six of them by Kühn. The variety of inspirations does not affect the overall theme. With each of the pieces offered here, Kühn shows "his unique ability to preserve a harmonic core in his unusual musical inventions."
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Brian Marley: Joachim Kühn New Trio - Love & Peace. London Jazz News, April 23, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Joachim Kühn New Trio - Love & Peace at Discogs
- ↑ CD review: Joachim Kühn New Trio - Love & Peace. Jazzzeitung, March 18, 2018, accessed October 7, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Ackermann: Joachim Kuhn: Love & Peace. All About Jazz, February 20, 2018, accessed October 7, 2019 .