One night in Karlsruhe
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| Live album by Michel Petrucciani | ||||
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| Label (s) | SWR Jazzhaus | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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01:17:30 |
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Studio (s) |
Jubez, calm |
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One Night in Karlsruhe is a jazz album by the Michel Petrucciani Trio with Gary Peacock , bass and Roy Haynes , drums. The recordings were made on July 7, 1988 as a production by Südwestfunk in the youth and meeting center in Karlsruhe and were released in 2019 on the SWR Jazzhaus label.
background
The 25-year-old French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani gave a concert in the “Jubez”, in the youth and meeting center in Karlsruhe, as part of a tour on July 7, 1988. At his side played bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Roy Haynes. Ten months earlier they had recorded the album Michel Plays Petrucciani for Blue Note Records . One Night in Karlsruhe is one of the few previously unpublished Michel Petrucciani recordings that have been released since his death at the age of 36 in 1999. The program is evenly divided between five jazz standards and five original Petrucciani compositions, all of which came from the Michel Plays Petrucciani studio LP , released just a few months earlier.
Track list
- Michel Petrucciani Trio - One Night in Karlsruhe (Jazzhaus - JAH-476)
- 13th (Michel Petrucciani) 6:38
- There Will Never Be Another You ( Harry Warren ) 8:23
- In a Sentimental Mood ( Duke Ellington ) 8:48
- One for Us (Michel Petrucciani) 6:49
- Mr. KJ (Michel Petrucciani) 9:27
- Embraceable You ( George Gershwin ) 6:20
- She Did It Again (Michel Petrucciani) 8:35
- La Champagne (Michel Petrucciani) 7:01
- Giant Steps ( John Coltrane ) 6:24
- My Funny Valentine ( Richard Rodgers ) 9:09
reception
The album was included in the quarterly best list of the German Record Critics ' Prize. In his explanation, Marcus A. Woelfle wrote that Petrucciani played with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Roy Haynes "with breathtaking virtuosity, sparkling ingenuity, sensitive lyricism, touching warmth and joy in playing." JazzTimes magazine counted the album among the ten best publications historical material;
Georg Waßmuth ( SWR 2 ) noted that like a painter, Petrucciani lavishly reached for the most varied of timbres. The concert recording impresses with its freshness and liveliness. With each piece, Petrucciani and his trio build a bridge to the audience, so that the live atmosphere of this evening can be felt up close.
According to Thomas Conrad (JazzTimes), the pianist played in this 1988 concert with the best rhythm section of his life. Petrucciani has been compared to Peacock's regular employer, Keith Jarrett . His technical skills were precise, even if he lacked Jarrett's harmonious ingenuity. He reversed Jarrett's priorities: Petrucciani put passion first, intellect second. “There Will Never Be Another You” is an eight-minute ascent in piano variations that find ecstasy and catharsis. Nobody turned the piano into a medium of ecstasy like Petrucciani, says Conrad. Even “ Giant Steps ”, John Coltrane's notoriously difficult set of chord progressions, is cause for celebration and confirms Petrucciani's virtuosity. When he was playing a ballad, his natural fire was simply contained in his talent for poetry. That night the ballads are flooded with energy.
Victor Aaron ( Something Else ) said that One Night in Karlsruhe was not destined to be the definitive live Petrucciani album. On the other hand, the cover versions showed Petrucciani's interpretive skills and it was always a pleasure to hear him play in the company of jazz giants like Gary Peacock and Roy Haynes. Michel Petrucciani, who was only one meter tall, showed that summer evening in Karlsruhe that he was a giant himself.
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 11, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Victor Aaron: Michel Petrucciani Trio - One Night in Karlsruhe . Something Else, March 4, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Michel Petrucciani Trio - One Night in Karlsruhe at Discogs
- ^ Prize of the German Record Critics, Best List 2/2019
- ↑ The Year in Review: Top 50 Albums of 2019. JazzTimes, December 13, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ^ Georg Waßmuth: "One night in Karlsruhe" - New CD from the Michel Petrucciani Trio. SWR 2, May 6, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
- ^ Thomas Conrad: Michel Petrucciani Trio: One Night in Karlsruhe (SWR Jazzhaus). JazzTimes, April 8, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .