Triple helix
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| Studio album by Anat Cohen Tentet | ||||
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2019 |
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| Label (s) | Anzic Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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Anat Cohen & Oded Lev-Ari |
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Studio (s) |
Sear Sound, New York City |
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Triple Helix is a jazz album by Anat Cohen Tentet. The recordings were made in January 2019 at Sear Sound Studios in New York and were released on June 14, 2019 on the Anzic Records label .
background
At the center of the album is Oded Lev-Ari's suite "Triple Helix," which was commissioned by Carnegie Hall (where it premiered in January 2019) and the Chicago Symphony Center (where there was a follow-up performance in February). It is classically laid out, with a slow movement framed by two lively movements. The content corresponds to the form to a certain extent, wrote Phillip Lutz; “The heavily written out passages required Cohen to continue her early training with Eva Wasserman, the former principal clarinetist of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra in her native Israel. At the same time, the piece has long open sections in which the score is deliberately sparing: a bit like a standard lead sheet of music littered with idiosyncratic instructions, it outlines a frame that is filled by the violent backbeat of drummer Anthony Pinciotti. The rest of the band forms the background - except for the soloist, who is given a lot of space. In other places in the piece harmonies arise that alternately remind of Maurice Ravel or Johannes Brahms and conjure up a romanticism that is weighted with an undisguised emotional intensity. "
Track list
- Anat Cohen Tentet - Triple Helix (Anzic Records - ANZ-0065)
- Milonga del Angel ( Astor Piazzolla ) 6:28
- Triple Helix First (Oded Lev-Ari) 11:15
- Triple Helix for Anat (Oded Lev-Ari) 5:36
- Triple Helix Last (Oded Lev-Ari) 5:02
- Miri 4:21
- Footsteps & Smiles 4:52
- La Llorona (Traditional) 7:48
- Lonesome Train ( Gene Roland ) 4:34
- Morning Melody 1:17
- All other compositions are by Anat Cohen.
reception
The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in late 2019 .
Jim Macnie wrote in JazzTimes that much of the quality of this recording has to do with what the band leader believes is the group's "flexible" nature. As with the ensemble directed by Gil Evans on Sketches of Spain (1959) or with Duke Ellington's troupe on “A Tone Parallel to Harlem” (1951), the audience would never hear the mechanics of the present work, but only the resulting art made by the Air floats. This applies to all melodies - from Astor Piazzolla's “Milonga del Angel” to Stan Kenton's “Lonesome Train” - but especially to the core of the program “Triple Helix”, a commissioned composition for the tentett's musical director, Oded Lev-Ari the Carnegie Hall and the Chicago Symphony Center. After listening to Triple Helix , the author sums up, it is difficult to decide whether his success is based on the stylistic breadth or the deep reward of a partnership. Probably both.
According to George W. Harris (Jazz Weekly), Cohen continues to create a wide range of sounds. After her Brazilian duets and trios, with this album she brings together her richly structured tentet under the direction of Oded Levi-Ar. The result is a wonderful mosaic of color that creates an overall view that is gorgeous from a distance and mesmerizing when viewed up close. Cohen's warm instrument floats gently on the pretty and pastoral “Milonga Del Angel”, while she gives her own “Miri” a dreamy feel to the cocktail blues. The team consisting of guitarist Sheryl Bailey, bassist Tal Mashiach and drummer Anthony Pinciotti gives “Lonesome train” a funny and vaudeville- like messenger, while the brass section from Nadje Noordhuis , Nick Finzer and Owen Broder gives “Footsteps and Smiles” a New Orleans feeling give. The three-part title track is a rich “Concerto for Clarinet and Ensemble”, in which Cohen mixes classical and klezmer with the funny “First”.
Phillip Lutz wrote in Down Beat that the music on the new album was even more complex and extensive compared to Happy Song (2016) thanks to Lev-Aris “Triple Helix: Concerto for Clarinet and Ensemble”, the first concerto that was written for Cohen . The concert SEI is a model of efficient authorship - it captures the far-reaching preferences of the clarinetist in a comprehensive and powerful statement.
The Triple Helix concert contains a panorama of atmospheric scenes framed by epic proportions, wrote the reviewer of the Dutch website Jazzenzo. It is a "bubbly, courageous piece"; This part alone makes the CD an impressive listening experience. But there is also room for blues and swing, the author continues. “There is also a real detour along New Orleans ('Footsteps & Smiles'), in the spirit of 'Oh Baby' on the Tentet's debut CD. In the traditional Mexican 'La Llorona' we hear the typical Nino Rota sound again, which is gradually shifting to the world of Yann Tiersen . Also of note is the dark version of 'Lonesome Train', which Gene Roland wrote for Stan Kenton 's big band . 'Morning Melody' is a short and appropriate ending in all serenity. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ album information at bandcamp
- ^ A b Phillip Lutz: The Eclectic Sensibility of Anat Cohen. Down Beat, May 6, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
- ↑ 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2019) - Nominations: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Triple Helix
- ↑ Jim Macnie: Anat Cohen Tentet: Triple Helix. May 6, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
- ↑ George W. Harris: Anat Cohen Tentet: Triple Helix. Jazz Weekly, July 13, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Anat Cohen Tentet: Triple Helix. Jazzenzo, May 6, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .