The Destructive Element
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| Live album by Harris Eisenstadt , Ellery Eskelin & Angelica Sanchez | ||||
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| Label (s) | Clean Feed Records | |||
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Grande Auditorio, Portalegre |
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The Destructive Element is an album by Harris Eisenstadt's September Trio with Ellery Eskelin and Angelica Sanchez . The recordings made on September 29 and 30, 2012 in the Grande Auditorio in Portalegre were released on May 20, 2013 on Clean Feed Records .
background
The September trio consists of Harris Eisenstadt (drums, composition), Ellery Eskelin (tenor saxophone) and Angelica Sanchez (piano). "The Destructive Element" is their second album after the self-titled debut September Trio , recorded in 2010.
Track list
- Harris Eisenstadt September Trio - The Destructive Element (Clean Feed CF276CD)
- Swimming, Then Rained Out 4:23
- Additives 6:20
- From Schoenberg, Part One 7:41
- Back and Forth 7:01 am
- Ordinary weirdness 6:20
- The Destructive Element 2:36
- Cascadia 6:48
- From Schoenberg, Part Two 4:24
- Here Are the Samurai 4:02
- All compositions are by Harris Eisenstadt.
reception
Martin Schray gave the album 4½ stars in the Free Jazz Blog and wrote that on Harris Eisenstadt's September trio album, the integration of Eskelin's wonderful tenor sound into Eisenstadt's compositions worked almost perfectly. According to the author Harris Eisenstadt, one element on this album are personal preferences, which he tries to transfer to the music, such as the Lord Jim quote from the writer Joseph Conrad in the title track, Arnold Schönberg's avant-garde music in the two parts of “From Schoenberg "And his preference for Akira Kurosawa's films in" Here Are the Samurai ". The two parts “From Schoenberg” are the most ambitious compositions that quote Schönberg's “ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ” (op. 36), while “Here are the Samurai” sums up the entire album. "Eisenstadt, Eskelin and Sanchez begin with a dark ballad cascade, then the melody continues with rolling drums and a challenging confrontation of saxophone and piano that paint the samurai's battle with the bad guys" (regardless of whether you are Kurosawa's Yojimbo or The Seven Samurai have in mind). Last but not least, according to Schray, the cool jazz themes in “Additives” and “Ordinary Weirdness”, which always fall apart before they have the chance to become demanding, are also two of the many highlights of this album.
According to Mark Corroto, who rated the album with four stars in All About Jazz , it was not because the lack of a bassist, for example, meant that the music was disorganized or chaotic. Eisenstadt is an experienced and talented composer who can arrange music for small ensembles, such as his quartet Golden State , the collaboratively directed Convergence Quartet or his septet Canada Day (which expanded to an octet in 2012). Eisenstadt also manages to write music beyond jazz , such as his two compositions "From Schoenberg, Part One" and "Part Two", in which he borrowed lines from the composer's concert for violin and orchestra. Eskelin's tenor sound, similar to Archie Shepp's , always seems to be in a semi-fluid state. “Eskelin and Sanchez bend and stretch Eisenstadt's pieces together and make the composed appear improvised”.
Glenn Astarita, who also reviewed the album on All About Jazz, pointed out that drummer Harris Eisenstadt was a modernist who dispelled preconceived notions that the primary role of a drummer is to keep track of time and work alongside a frontline bassist to stand. With this recording of his September trio, he anchors organic textures and a sensitive, relaxed groove mode, if he does not involve his band colleagues in structured unison choruses. “Eisenstadt also communicates its clever call and response mechanisms when piercing with tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and pianist Angelica Sanchez. Even without bitterness, the band manages to create a spacious environment that is sometimes characterized by bluesy and moody "after hours" -like observations. "
According to Britt Jobson ( JazzTimes ), Harris Eisenstadt has "a beguiling way of combining simplicity and sophistication, a quality that seems most impressive in the context of his September trio." The drummer's smallest regular ensemble has two dynamic stylists , who are on the same wavelength as Eisenstadt's casual complexity, says Jobson. Ellery Eskelin often plays here in a cool, exuberant way that is gracious and attractive, and pianist Angelica Sanchez can add question marks and exclamation marks to her phrases without the slightest excess. The leader acts as a rhythmic sketch artist - there is no need to fill the bassist's void, a role that Sanchez occasionally plays - and is the least aggressive instrumentalist in the group, said Jobson.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Harris Eisenstadt September Trio - The Destructive Element at Discogs
- ^ Harris Eisenstadt September Trio - The Destructive Element (Clean Feed, 2013). Free Jazz Blog, August 5, 2013, accessed May 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Mark Corroto: Harris Eisenstadt September Trio: The Destructive Element. All About Jazz, July 9, 2013, accessed May 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Glenn Astarita: Harris Eisenstadt September Trio: The Destructive Element. All About Jazz, July 28, 2013, accessed May 14, 2020 .
- ^ Britt Jobson: Harris Eisenstadt September Trio: The Destructive Element. JazzTimes, December 4, 2013, accessed May 14, 2020 .