The People I Love
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| Studio album by Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn | ||||
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| Label (s) | Pi recordings | |||
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CD |
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10 |
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41:40 |
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Steve Lehman, Seth Rosner, Yulun Wang |
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Samurai Hotel, Astoria, New York; Jeff Parker's studio in Altadena, California |
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The People I Love is a jazz album by the Steve Lehman Trio with Craig Taborn . Most of the recordings were made on May 14th and 15th, 2019 in the Samurai Hotel, Astoria, New York and on September 17th, 2018 in the Jeff Parker Studio in Altadena, California ("A Shifting Design"). It was released on August 30, 2019 by Pi Recordings .
background
In addition to his own compositions, Lehman and his team play a number of compositions by his colleagues, including Kenny Kirkland's “Chance”, Jeff “Tain” Watts ' “The Impaler” and Kurt Rosenwinkel's “A Shifting Design”. This contrasts with a few revised versions of compositions from Lehman's catalog that were originally recorded with quartets, quintets and an octet, for example a revision of "Curse Fraction" from his quintet recording on On Meaning (Pi Recordings, 2007).
The title for The People I Love comes from a 2010 interview with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson , a longtime friend and collaborator of Lehman's main mentor Jackie McLean :
- “When I was younger I thought that music came first. And now that I've gotten older, I realize that it's just a reflection of the images of the people I love and who I am with God. "
- When I was younger, I thought music came first. And now that I've gotten older, I realize it's only a reflection of the images of the people I love and being with God.
Track list
- Steve Lehman: The People I Love (Pi Tecordings)
- Prelude (Craig Taborn, Steve Lehman) 1:40
- Ih Calam and Ynnus (Steve Lehman) 5:54
- Curse Fraction (Steve Lehman) 5:13
- qPlay (Autreche, Robert John Brown, Sean Anthony Booth) 4:24
- Interlude (Craig Taborn, Steve Lehman) 1:04
- A Shifting Design (Kurt Rosenwinkel) 3:57
- Beyond All Limits (Lehman) 7:52
- Echoes / The Impaler (Lehman / Jeff Tain Watts) 5:12
- Chance (Kenny Kirkland) 5:30
- Postlude (Craig Taborn, Steve Lehman) 0:54
reception
The album received consistently positive reviews; Giovanni Russonello ( The New York Times ) and Chris Barton ( Los Angeles Times ) counted it among the ten best jazz albums of 2019. With Lehman's cleverly balanced, rhythmically exuberant compositions at their fingertips and his long-standing rhythm section behind them, these two play each other like this as if they were always in each other's orbit, wrote Giovanni Russonello. Chris Barton believes that perhaps there is no cleaner way to sum up this saxophonist's sweeping approach than to consider this album's cover selection , the music of Jeff "Tain" Watts, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Autechre with the same sense of awe and awe Treat adventure. However, space must be created for Lehman's tight, instantly recognizable sound, regardless of its source material, which here takes on a new dimension with like-minded pianist Craig Taborn.
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Thom Jurek gave the album four stars in Allmusic and said that Lehman's catalog is full of jewels that question the basic ideas of modern jazz. In The People I Love, however, he questions his own processes and tries to find essences and new ways to move outside the given limits. His quartet not only offers support here, but also drives the investigation forward.
For Hank Shteamer ( Rolling Stone ), The People I Love is the standout jazz futurism statement of the year; Bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damipn Reid gave the music a decisive boost. Under the direction of Lehmans, who works with the similarly forward-looking pianist Craig Taborn, the album builds on a broken but extremely funky rhythmic grammar that is clearly committed to the latest electronics. Lehman's original compositions made the strongest impression: the dizzying nimble high-speed interaction, which can be found in “Ih Calam and Ynnus”, for example, has the effect of the 21st century analogue of the group telepathy of the Miles Davis quintet in the mid-1960s.
Ken Micallef ( JazzTimes ) praised: "Alto saxophonist Steve Lehman's 14th release is jazz for those who are fed up with coming to terms with the genre's past and ready to 'be here now' like spiritual travelers from the [19] 60s liked to say. The Prople I Love is decidedly modern. ”As Taborn builds a subtle, strong foundation, Lehman, bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damion Reid lead the music through numerous improvised pitfalls, each more exciting than the other. Everything merges and flows as a living organism; Brewer and Reid formed the music with elastic radio granules, while Lehman flew overhead, always melodic, always to the point, always at the apex.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark Corroto: Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love. AllAboutJazz, August 18, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Steve Lehman: The People I Love at Bandcamp
- ↑ Steve Lehman: The People I Love at Discogs
- ↑ a b Giovanni Russonello: Best Jazz of 2019: Brilliance accommodates any form - and, as these albums show, sometimes lightning lands in a bottle. The New York Times, December 5, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Chris Barton: Best jazz albums of 2019: A year rife with invention and resistance. Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
- ↑ Hank Shteamer: 2019 Jazz Albums. Rolling Stone, May 6, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Ken Micallef: Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love (Pi). JazzTimes, September 8, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .