Whit Dickey: In a Heartbeat

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2005-08-17
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
opis:
multikulti.com:
Tym razem, na drugiej płycie dla portugalskiego Clean Feedu, Whit Dickey rozszerza swój zespół do kwintetu – do Roya Campbella, Roba Browna, Joe Morrisa dołącza basista Chris Lightcap. Muzyka kwintetu rozwija się powoli, napięcie budowane jest nieśpiesznie – nie znaczy to jednak, że mamy doczynienia z jakimiś balladowymi kompozycjami – muzycy mają świadomość, żę nie muszą już niczego udowadniać i z nikim się nie ścigają.. Każdy z nich ma tutaj okazję by zaprezentować swój instrumentalny kunszt (np.Rob Brown w „Dubya’s Flying Lesson”), ale wszystko to jest podporządkowane brzmieniu zespołu – przykładem tutaj może być ostatni na płycie utwór („Democracy at home”) w którym Campbell i Brown snują swe urywane króciutkie partie w gęstym sosie gitary, basu i perkusji.
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Editor's info:
Every Whit Dickey's recording shows the public a new concept of this band which is becoming cyclically deeper and reorganised in order to be considered in such a way. It occurred in Transonic (1998), With Dickey's first album as a leader, it happened too in Big Top and Coalescence, and in what concerns In a Heartbeat, it is also true. This is not magic but work, commitment and organization.
This strategy defines the production of In a Heartbeat. It is a global process that requires, of the members of the quintet, more than simple complicity and convergent orientation: a synergetic musical creation in which, by definition, the final product is superior to the sum of its parts. In this case, the parts are Rob Brown, alto saxophone, Roy Campbell, trumpet, Joe Morris, guitar, Chris Lightcap, contrabass, and Whit Dickey who signs all the compositions, except the opening theme composed by Carla Bley, and also guarantees the chromatic and propulsive components of percussion. These four musicians are Dickey's habitual fellows on jazz/ improv scene in New York. These musicians keep with each other a relationship not based on hierarchical values, but on a kind of equalitarianism. In that way, each voice, based in its own individuality and diversity, assures the time and the space which are essential to the individual expression and to the contribution for the collective sound.
Whit Dickey's musical composition, further its function to frame the activity of the quintet, is based on a deep practical knowledge, a capacity of interaction and interdependence, which are the essential conditions for the process of evolution. These starting points, which put on the same level the first written composition and the one that comes from the prompt improvisation, confirm the creative process, grant a big sense of originality, and establish distinctive signs of appurtenance to a higher stage of development of modern improved music.
Composition by composition, all work is divided in a series of activities or processes. Each process links up with another one and the result of the first process is the work material of the next, they are all connected by the solidity of the arrangements, and each of them cannot be independent or undissociable from the others.

muzycy:
Whit Dickey: drums
Roy Campbell Jr: trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn
Rob Brown: alto saxophone
Joe Morris: guitar
Chris Lightcap: double bass

utwory:
01. Calls
02. In a Heartbeat
03. Peace overture
04. Dubya's Flying Lesson
05. Democracy at Home
nagrano: 2005-03
more info: www.cleanfeed-records.com