Requiem for a New York Slice
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| Studio album by Michael Bisio , Kirk Knuffke and Fred Lonberg-Holm | ||||
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CD |
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5 |
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58:27 |
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Park West Studios, Brooklyn |
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Requiem for a New York Slice is a jazz album by Michael Bisio , Kirk Knuffke and Fred Lonberg-Holm . The recordings, taken on October 5, 2018 in Park West Studios, Brooklyn, were released on March 25, 2019 on Iluso Records .
background
Michael Bisio's trio, who played acoustic bass here, consisted of Kirk Knuffke on cornet and Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello. This was Lonberg-Holm's first recording with Bisio or Knuffke. In October 2018, Mike Panico's sudden, unexpected death at the age of 53 shook the close community of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation in New York. Bisio dedicated this recording to Mike Panico (1965-2018), the co-owner and producer of Relative Pitch Records , who had died three days before the recording session. Knuffke and Bisio recorded the duo album Row for William O. (Relative Pitch, 2016) and seven other sessions for Panico . Bisio borrowed the names of the individual movements from the titles of chants in the Catholic Requiem , the funeral mass (" Introit et Kyrie ").
Track list
- Bisio / Knuffke / Lonberg-Holm: Requiem for a New York Slice (Iluso Records IRCD17)
- Introit et Kyrie 12:36
- Sanctus 10:22
- Pie Jesus 18:12
- Agnus Dei 7:49 (Bisio)
- In Paradisum 9:38
All compositions are by Michael Bisio, Kirk Knuffke and Fred Lonberg-Holm.
reception
According to Mark Corroto, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , the energy and depth of this fully improvised recording session is reminiscent of John Coltrane's legendary recordings of Alabama, Lonnie's Lament and the album Meditations (Impulse !, 1966). According to the author, it is difficult to find three more expressive musicians than Bisio, Lonberg-Holm and Knuffke. This intensity of expression is raised to a maximum in “Sanctus”. The music of the trio roams through Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring in their improvisations . “In Paradisum” is perhaps the saddest and most beautiful piece of this recording.
Keith Prosk wrote on the Free Jazz Blog that the memory of Panico lives on in this excellent recording. Dynamically, the focus is often on the stringed instruments. Lonberg-Holm's sonorous constant onslaught intertwine with the exploratory cadences, techniques and timbres of Bisio to create a basis on which Knuffke moves between advanced techniques that complement the stringed instruments well - lamentations, screaming trills, thin mutes and eerie whistles - and more distant, reflected, impressionistic interjections. "Introit et Kyrie", "Sanctum" and "In Paradisum" contained the most emotional game the author has heard in a long time.
S. Victor Aaron said in Something Else! Jazz is the music of pure emotions and the means by which Bisio, Knuffke and Lonberg-Holm clarified their feelings for this tragedy. As improvisation artists at the highest level, they had previously treated each performance as a kind of requiem, but this time there is an additional impetus that is shown masterfully in these five improvised performances by the group. The free jazz , which is made by three leading greats of the New York downtown scene, represents “a juicy piece of the sounds of the city. And Mike Panico would surely have enjoyed these sounds as much as the perfect New York slice [pizza] ”(referring to the album title Requiem for a New York Slice , which relates to Panico's constant search for the best pizza slices in his hometown of New York.)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mark Corroto: Michael Bisio / Kirk Knuffke / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Requiem for a New York Slice. In: All About Jazz. April 23, 2019, accessed on July 28, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Michael Bisio, Kirk Knuffke, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Requiem for a New York Slice. In: JazzTimes. July 6, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
- ^ Bisio / Knuffke / Lonberg-Holm: Requiem for a New York Slice at Discogs
- ↑ S. Victor Aaron: Michael Bisio / Kirk Knuffke / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Requiem for a New York Slice. In: Something Else! July 6, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2020 .