Two Days in Chicago

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Two Days in Chicago
Studio album by Misha Mengelberg

Publication
(s)

1999

Label (s) HatHut Records

Format (s)

2 CD

Genre (s)

Free jazz

Title (number)

15th

running time

02:01:46

occupation
  • Piano : Misha Mengelberg

production

John Corbett , Werner X. Uehlinger

Studio (s)

Airwave Recording Studios, Velvet Lounge, Chicago, Chicago

chronology
Yuri Honing & Misha Mengelberg: Playing
(1998) 		Two Days in Chicago Yuri Honing, Misha Mengelberg with Ernst Reijseger : Lively
(2000)
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Two Days in Chicago is a jazz album by Misha Mengelberg . The recordings were made in various formations (solo, duo, trio, quartet) on October 11, 1998 as part of the 34th Chicago International Film Festival in the Velvet Lounge jazz club , Chicago (CD 2) and on October 12, 1998 in the Airwave Recording Studios (CD 1). They appeared on HatHut Records in 1999 .

background

Mengelberg played in Chicago in October 1998 in various constellations with the tenor saxophonists Fred Anderson , Ken Vandermark and Ab Baars (the latter also clarinet) as well as the cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and the drummer Hamid Drake . Then there were the bassists Kent Kessler and Wilbert de Joode and the drummer Martin van Duynhoven .

Mengelberg played several Monk compositions with Ken Vandermark and Hamid Drake; the tracks called “Chicago Trio” and “Chicago Quartet” offer Anderson and Baars the opportunity to explore soundscapes and sound effects. The first CD was recorded in the studio. On the second disc, Mengelberg initially entered the stage alone to play an almost thirty-minute “Chicago Solo”, which processed influences from Arnold Schönberg to Claude Debussy until Monk's “ Round Midnight ” was interpreted . At the end Mengelberg and Baars end the live program with a series of duets, ending with the jazz standard “ Body and Soul ”.

Track list

  • Misha Mengelberg: Two Days in Chicago (hatOLOGY - 7221/7222)
CD 1
Studio
  1. Eronel (Thelonious Monk) 4:35 - Hamid Drake, Misha Mengelberg, Ken Vandermark
  2. Chicago Trio 1 (Lonberg-Holm, Baars, Mengelberg) 5:10 - Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ab Baars, Misha Mengelberg
  3. Chicago Trio 2 (Lonberg-Holm, Baars, Mengelberg) 5:08 - Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ab Baars, Misha Mengelberg
  4. Chicago Trio 3 (Lonberg-Holm, Baars, Mengelberg) 5:01 - Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ab Baars, Misha Mengelberg
  5. Off Minor (Thelonious Monk) 5:10 - Hamid Drake, Misha Mengelberg, Ken Vandermark
  6. Chicago Quartet 1 (Kessler, Drake, Mengelberg, Anderson) 12:31 - Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake, Misha Mengelberg, Fred Anderson
  7. Chicago Quartet 2 (Kessler, Drake, Mengelberg, Anderson) 14:34 - Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake, Misha Mengelberg, Fred Anderson
  8. Chicago Trio 4 (de Joode, van Duynhoven, Mengelberg) 5:13 - Wilbert de Joode, Martin van Duynhoven, Misha Mengelberg
  9. Chicago Quartet 3 (Lonberg-Holm, de Joode, van Duynhoven, Mengelberg) 5:52 - Fred Lonberg-Holm, Wilbert de Joode, Martin van Duynhoven, Misha Mengelberg
  10. Chicago Quartet 4 (Lonberg-Holm, de Joode, van Duynhoven, Mengelberg) 4:51 - Fred Lonberg-Holm, Wilbert de Joode, Martin van Duynhoven, Misha Mengelberg
CD 2
live
  1. Chicago Solo (Mengelberg) 27:09 - Misha Mengelberg
  2. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) 3:00 - Misha Mengelberg
  3. Chicago Duo (Baars, Mengelberg) 12: 8 - Ab Baars, Misha Mengelberg
  4. Rollo 2 (Mengelberg) 4:18 - From Baars, Misha Mengelberg
  5. Body and Soul (Heyman, Eyton, Green, Sour) 6:57 - Ab Baars, Misha Mengelberg

reception

Thom Jurek gave the album four stars in Allmusic and wrote: “If Thelonious Monk had been born 20 years later in Europe, he might have been Mischa Mengelberg. No other player / composer / improviser, with the exception of Steve Lacy, was able to so fully enter into Monk's harmonic mindset (and, incidentally, into the technical genius of his counterpart Herbie Nichols ). And as much as that would be enough for so many people in the scene today, it's a compliment that iconoclast Mr. Mengelberg would avoid because it's only part of what he does. ”Jurek's summary:“ This is by far one of Mengelberg's best recorded moments and shows him in all of his roles, which shine with rough elegance and finely crafted edges. "

Peter Margasak ( JazzTimes ) wrote, “Occasionally long strands of beautifully fragile melodies morph into new, free styles of association, but Mengelberg is just as likely to pull the rug out from under him and abruptly change course (and feel) as he tries to hold it together. This penchant for putting musical wrenches in all his activities puts the skills of his fellow improvisers and his own to the test, and the multitude of situations producer John Corbett threw him into during those sessions with a number of Chicagoans and some of his compatriots - one in the studio, one live in Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge - was a page from his own book. It was a game. "

Robert Spencer ( All About Jazz ) praised: “Like Jubilee Varia (hatOLOGY 528), this 2-CD set shows the risky, death-defying, life-promoting pianistic and compositional talents of Misha Mengelberg, the globally challenging Dutch leader on these unforgettable two days in Chicago. Like Jubilee Varia , this CD contains some of the most important improvisers on the scene today, all of whom were brought to a new level by Mengelberg's talents. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robert Spencer: Misha Mengelberg: Two Days in Chicago. All About Jazz, December 1, 1999, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Misha Mengelberg: Two Days in Chicago at Discogs
  3. ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ Peter Margasak: Misha Mengelberg: Two Days in Chicago. JazzTimes, May 6, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .