The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone

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The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone
Live album by Ken Vandermark & The Vandermark 5

Publication
(s)

2010

Label (s) Atavistic Records

Format (s)

2 CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

10

occupation

production

Marek Winiarski

Location (s)

Green Mill, Chicago

chronology
Annular Gift
(2009) 		The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone Ken Vandermark: Mark in the Water
(2011)

The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone is a jazz album by Ken Vandermark & The Vandermark 5. The recordings made on June 19 and 20, 2009 at the Green Mill jazz club , Chicago, were released in 2010 on Atavistic Records .

background

For the 16th (and so far last) publication of The Vandermark 5 , the composer and bandleader Ken Vandermark invited two guest musicians to his quintet, the Norwegian pianist Håvard Wiik and the Swedish trumpeter Magnus Broo . At that time Broo was a member of the European equivalent of Vandermark 5, the band Atomic and The Angles . Wiik was part of Atomic and Vandermark's chamber music project Freefall (with bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten ). The regular line-up of the band includes Ken Vandermark on tenor saxophone and B flat clarinet Tim Daisy on drums, Kent Kessler on bass, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and Dave Rempis on alto and baritone saxophone.

The album contains music from three previous Vadermark 5 albums - Annular Gift (Not Two, 2009), Beat Reader (Atavistic, 2008) and Four Sides to the Story (Not Two, 2006) as well as the new track “Green Mill Tilter "And a composition by Håvard Wiik," Desireless ".

Track list

Håvard Wiik (Vossajazz 2014)
  • The Vandermark 5: The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone (Not Two Records MW 850-2)
CD 1 The Horse Jumps
  1. Friction 12:15
  2. Some Not All 13:41
  3. New Weather 12:31
  4. Second marker 11:36
  5. Cadmium Orange 10:39
CD 2 The Ship Is Gone
  1. Green Mill Tilter 10:01 am
  2. Desireless (Håvard Wiik) 10:32
  3. Early Color 13:30
  4. Cement 12:14
  5. Nameless 3:17 pm
  • Unless otherwise stated, all compositions are by Ken Vandermark.

reception

According to John Sharpe, who reviewed the album in All About Jazz , the two guest musicians expand and condense the ensemble's music; moreover, they would be used with care. Wiik add a provocative commentary with his restless comping and great performances full of clanking dissonances, while Broo's succinct trumpet burns incandescent throughout. Saxophonist Dave Rempis has mastered the baritone just as well as the alto saxophone and changes fluently from stentor-like yodelling to charged screams, while the band leader acts from passionate tenor saxophone to sonic clarinet multiphonics . On the cello, Fred Lonberg-Holm dramatically expanded the available options, Tim Daisy lending his already acute rhythmic acumen a fascinating sonic dimension.

Magnus Broo with Atomic at the Vortex Jazz Club (2010)

Mark Corroto, who also reviewed the album in All About Jazz, believes Vandermark wrote “Early Color” with simple beauty, with a delicacy and grace that opens the solos of Wiik, Lonberg-Holm, Broo and drummer Tim Daisy . With the Wiik and Broo, the Vandermark 5 delivered a very solid performance.

According to the critics from the Free Jazz Blog, the live aspect makes the ensemble's playing a little more relaxed and open; it offers more time for solo play compared to the usual tight play of the Vandermark 5 on their studio releases, but the drive and energy level are on the same high level, according to the author. Lonberg-Holm's electronics would find relatively little use; Otherwise the music is incredibly lively, powerful, energetic, wild with the mastery of seven artists who know exactly what they are doing and how they are doing it. The sound is heavier than on the studio albums, and the transitions between the improvisations and the return to the topic are sometimes less seamless, but all of this adds to the general warmth, fun, and participation of the listener in the sense that everything is so much sound more real, so full of vitality.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mark Corroto: The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone. All About Jazz, December 13, 2010, accessed June 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The Vandermark 5: The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone at Discogs
  3. ^ John Sharpe: The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone. All About Jazz, December 8, 2010, accessed June 24, 2020 .
  4. ^ The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone. Free Jazz Blog, May 6, 2019, accessed June 7, 2020 .