Sleep my love
| Sleep my love | |
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| Studio album by Philip Catherine, Charlie Mariano, Jasper Van't Hof | |
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Publication |
1979 |
| Label (s) | CMP records |
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
7th |
| occupation |
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Kurt Renker |
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Studio (s) |
Easy Sound Studio, Copenhagen |
Sleep My Love is a jazz album by Philip Catherine , Charlie Mariano and Jasper van't Hof , recorded in 1979 and released on CMP Records .
background
The album was recorded in Copenhagen in December 1978 and January 1979. The three musicians play various acoustic and electrically amplified instruments. Mariano plays alto and soprano saxophone, flute and the Indian Nagaswaram , which he also played on the embryo album We Keep On .
In addition to the electric and acoustic guitar, Catherine also played a kind of guitar synthesizer, while van't Hof operates acoustic and electric piano as well as synthesizers and kalimba .
The pieces on the album were written by the three musicians except for the last one composed by Schönberg.
criticism
The Rough Guide to Jazz called the album one of the finest albums of the 1970s by a trio of equals. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings gave the album the second highest rating; the authors found Sleep My Love to be "an absolutely stunning album"; it achieves “an almost perfect mix of instrumental voices”; In addition to Catherine's title “Janet”, his arrangement of Arnold Schönberg's Transfigured Night is noteworthy.
Track list
- Sleep My Love 4:00 (C. Mariano)
- 5 Pages 6:24 (Jasper Van't Hof)
- Le Sept Boules De Christal 5:52 (P. Catherine)
- Scrabble 2:42 (Jasper Van't Hof)
- Janet 7:45 (P. Catherine)
- Smell Of Madras 5:27 (C. Mariano)
- Improvisation On A Theme Of Schönbergs Verkläufer Nacht 6:57 (arranged by P. Catherine; composed by A. Schönberg )
literature
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
Web links
- Sleep My Love at The rough guide to jazz by Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sleep My Love by Discogs
- ^ Charlie Mariano Tribute Recordings
- ^ The dawn of Indian music in the West: Bhairavi , by Peter Lavezzoli
- ↑ Cook / Morton, 2nd edition, 1996, p. 230.