All Those Yesterdays

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2020-07-21
opakowanie: Jewel Caseowe etui
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Editor's info:
Swiss saxophonist Omri Ziegele presents with the Tomorrow Trio an adventurous line-up featuring the legendary Dutch drummer Han Bennink and accomplished Swiss double bassist Christian Weber. A collaboration that offers a perfect platform for Ziegele's robust, powerful sound and his dynamic phrasing, while at the same time showing interest in poetry and the spoken word. If the Tomorrow Trio has a defining feature it is the potently communicative dialogue of the three individuals. It can be felt in the tight entwining of certain motifs by sax and drums, the snapchat rhythmic exchange of horn and drums, the well-judged release of cumulative tension by the whole band, writes Kevin Le Gendre in the liner notes.


"Saxophonist Omri Ziegele was born in Israel in 1959. He studied in Boston and London with, among others, Clifford Jordan, and has been a professional musician since 1980. He has done duo projects with pianist Irene Schweizer, played in her trio, Where's Africva Trio, and in the trio Schweizer Holz Trio with Urs Leimgruber and Hans Koch and a number of other projects.

Now he's out with the trio record All Those Yesterdays, along with bassist Christian Weber and drummer Han Bennink, which admittedly was recorded as early as 2016, but not mixed and released until this year.

Ziegele has released several records previously on the Swiss company Intakt Records, and here on Salt Peanuts we have previously reviewed several of them, including the band project Omri Ziegele Where's Africa, where he plays with Yves Theiler (keys, reed organ, melodica, v) and Dario Sisera (perc, dr).

We get six compositions, or lead by Ziegele, and they start with "Line for a Friend of Mine," a creative and energetic affair, where all three are at the top of the line to perform their best. And in particular, Ziegle's tough alto saxophone plays along with Bennink's incredible drum drive, while Weber is the one who keeps the beat and makes sure they don't "completely take off" already in the opening track.

We notice Ziegle's fine tone in the alto saxophone, which is traditional and not very far away for example Phil Woods. But the difference to Woods is still relatively large. For this, jazz music is much freer than Woods ever came up with (at least as far as I know).

The Second Track, "O. My God "is dedicated to another alto saxophonist who has left traces in the newer jazz, namely Ornette Coleman. Here is also the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by WB Yeats, performed by Ziegele. This is a blues that takes us a few years back, to the first meetings we had on record with Ornette Coleman, and with brilliant "four-face" play by Weber, and driving delicious drumming from Bennink, this becomes a highlight. Here, Ziegle's alto saxophone play is extremely energetic, where he does what he can to turn the toughest tones out of the saxophone, before settling down with an incredibly delicious Bennink drum solo, which is just the way we love his game, before Weber follows up. with a lovely solo that alternates with Bennink's input, before the poem comes in and we get a feel for Charles Mingus and one of his plays, or Amiri Baraka.

The title track "All Those Yesterday is another driving case of delicious alto saxophone games over an incredibly solid comp, while" Donders Wonders "takes us into something similar to Henry Threadgill's band AIR, with alto saxophone games reminiscent of Threadgill, but with a several tough drums.

Then we get "Saw That Smile", which is a bit in the same landscape, and as tough as it is almost possible to get such trio jazz, before they round off the set to take it down a bit in "When the River Spoke," which swings almost uninhibitedly and nicely, but steady bass games, fantastic drum drives and lovely alto saxophone games on top.

All Those Yesterdays has become a brilliant record in the slightly modern jazz landscape, where we meet three musicians who have really found each other. And that this trio was not invited to every possible European and American jazz festival after they were in the studio in 2016 is strange. But maybe we can have a reunion for the trio now, after this amazing record is out. And if you have a sense of what Threadgill did with the trio AIR a few years ago, then you should definitely check out this recording, as this swings if possible even more and better than the excellent trio AIR. And tougher drumming than what we get here, look for a long time!

Fantastic!"-Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts (translated by Google)

muzycy:
Omri Ziegele: Saxophone, Voice
Christian Weber: Bass
Han Bennink: Drums

utwory:
1. Line for a Friend of Mine 05:01
2. O. My God 10:14
3. All Those Yesterdays 08:00
4. Donders Wonders 09:11
5. Saw That Smile 06:43
6. When the River Spoke 07:48

total time - 47:11
nagrano: Recorded and mixed in November 2016 at Club Le Singe in Biel and Villa Schneckenmann in Zu¨rich

more info: www.intaktrec.ch