Special Edition (Album)
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| Studio album by Jack DeJohnette | ||||
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Publication |
1980 |
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| Label (s) | Edition of Contemporary Music | |||
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LP / CD |
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Title (number) |
5 |
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running time |
39:06 |
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Studio (s) |
Generation Sound Studios, New York |
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Special Edition is a jazz album by Jack DeJohnette that was recorded in New York City in March 1979 and was released by ECM in 1980 . DeJohnette also used Special Edition as the name of his band project at the time, whose first album he presented with it.
The album
After DeJohnette had worked in the second half of the 1970s with his band project New Directions with John Abercrombie , Lester Bowie and Eddie Gomez as well as in the Trio Gateway (with Abercrombie and Dave Holland ) and released an album as a drum soloist, he started with Special Edition in 1979 . This band was his "link to the world of wind instruments". DeJohnette brought the two saxophonists David Murray (tenor) and Arthur Blythe (alto) into the quartet ; Murray also played the bass clarinet ; both were members of the World Saxophone Quartet at the time . Then there was the bassist and cellist Peter Warren . The repertoire consisted of three original compositions by the band leader and two titles by John Coltrane , Central Park West and India .
The album begins with One for Eric , "performed perfectly in the spirit of Eric Dolphys, " with Murray on bass clarinet . It turned out to be "a humorous homage that quoted and continued a lot from Dolphy's great leaps in intervals to his idea of compositional sequence to nervous melody lines ."
The following Zoot Suite , which Ian Carr recalled the sound of a jump band from the 1940s is of the 4 / 4 taktigen dominated bass groove, while Blythe on alto and Murray on tenor saxophone, the Head repeat-lines. Jack DeJohnette's melodic playing introduces Coltrane's ballad Central Park West , with Peter Warren on cello . At the beginning of India DeJohnette first plays a piano accompaniment, which takes up the motifs of Indian music from Coltrane's composition; for Murray's clarinet he uses drums again, with Blythe and Murray on alto and bass clarinet. The last track Journey to the Twin Planet is a free improvisation, with Blythe's squeaking alto and Murray's tenor with overblow techniques, and in the last part with DeJohnette's melodica, which is reminiscent of electronic music. The bridge between the two parts is a "rugged, wild and free bop [game] that leads to a quieter, presumably other planet".
“ After this acoustic foundation stone was laid, Special Edition became the starting point for numerous other albums and tours,” wrote Ralf Dombrowski . Under the band name, DeJohnette recorded other albums until the 1990s, including a. with Chico Freeman , John Purcell , Howard Johnson , Gary Thomas and Greg Osby .
reception
The first special edition album received mostly positive feedback; the critic of the Stereo Review wrote when the album was released in 1980: "In this 'Special Edition', Jack DeJohnette has given us a wonderful surrealistic portrait of jazz itself."
The critic Michael G. Nastos awarded the album with the highest grade on Allmusic and named the sound of the first (greatest) of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition ensemble:
- " This first version of the Special Edition stands alone as one of the most important and greatest assemblages of jazz musicians. This CD deserves a definitive five-star rating for the lofty place it commands in the evolution of jazz headed toward new heights and horizons. "
The album was "revolutionary in many ways in modern contemporary and creative improvised music around 1980". DeJohnette could drive the two winds with “his tough drumming”, and if the mood suited him, he switched to piano or melodica, while Peter Warren laid the foundations for everything.
Even Ian Carr raised in Jazz - Rough Guide the album as one of the most important in the discography of the band leader out and called it "a. Deft album with much variety of idiom and style" Among the highlights of the album counted Carr One for Eric because of his complex Themes and the dynamic rhythms , paired with Murray's bass clarinet, on the other hand the Zoot Suite .
Richard Cook and Brian Morton , who gave the album the second highest rating in their Penguin Guide to Jazz , particularly highlight the achievements of the two woodwinds Murray and Blythe, especially given the fact that the latter spent the following years in a creative low. One for Eric is "a very imaginative tribute to Dolphy."
Ralf Dombrowski included the album “with the five pieces artfully oscillating between composition and improvisation ” in his basic jazz discotheque and emphasized DeJohnette's role as the center of the musical event, “which goes beyond the pulse in constant recourse to the experiments of others created an additional level of musical-rhythmic commentary. "
Track list
- Jack DeJohnette: Special Edition (ECM 1152, Trio Records PAP-9196 (Japan), ECM Records 827694-2)
- One for Eric (DeJohnette) - 9:52
- Zoot Suite (DeJohnette) - 11:29
- Central Park West (Coltrane) - 3:16
- India (Coltrane) - 6:02
- Journey to the Twin Planet (DeJohnette) - 8:42
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Ralf Dombrowski : Basis-Diskothek Jazz (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 18372). Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-018372-3 .
Web links
- Review of Michael G. Nastos' album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 8, 2011.
- Special Edition at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dombrowski, p. 75 f.
- ↑ a b c d Review of Michael G. Nastos' album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 8, 2011.
- ^ A b Ian Carr, Jazz Rough Guide, p. 202.
- ^ Stereo Review, Volume 44; 1980
- ^ Cook / Morton, p. 394.
- ↑ Information about the album at ECM ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Remarks
- ↑ In 2008 the album was re-released in the Touchstones series by ECM (ECM 177 5832).