Joel Futterman / The 'Kidd' Jordan Quintet: Nickelsdorf Konfrontation

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2003-06-01
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Jewelcaseowe etui
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Editor's Info:
"For lovers of this music, here is a disc with a definitive place reserved for it, a very lofty place."
Gustave Cerutti, Improjazz, October 1996

"(Futterman) can zip out those tone clusters, which have given him a reputation as a Taylorite, but there is much variation in density – sometimes on this CD the clusters metamorphose into quiet little sprinkles in the top octave of the piano. His ability to move from keys to strings and back again continues to impress. Co-leader Edward 'Kidd' Jordan's duet with Futterman on Soul Mates is an excellent sample of his art.; he always counterbalances his harshest outpourings with heartfelt lyricism. Elsewhere the music fares best when Jordan is setting the tone, as in the balladic first half of Nickelsdorf Summit, Part Two. Even when the proceedings begin to babble in tongues à la late-period Coltrane, his line is readily discernable and always coherent. Alvin Fielder contributes mobile drumming in the tradition of Ed Blackwell; just check out what he does on the tom-toms, and savor the solo that opens his piece in honor of Vernell Fournier (another key member of the New Orleans drumming fraternity).
Robert L. Campbell, Cadence, April 1997

Nat Hentoff wrote the following in his liner notes for Joel Futterman's 1984 album, Inneraction, "True musicians have an irrepressible urge and a need to share their strongest, most delicate, most spontaneous feelings."

… In his fourth release for Silkheart Records, Futterman still displays that irrepressible urge. However, over the last decade the urge has been transformed and channeled into a highly focused, disciplined school of through-composed, what the Germans once called durchkomponiert, improvisational music. Thought of in less analytical terms, Futterman is continuing to define the once sole purview of Coltrane - that musical tradition of playing extended sets without repeating oneself. Long misunderstood though, Trane's vision, and now Futterman's, is not about playing 'free' or playing 'out'. And it is not about predetermined notions of what jazz is, or was, or should be. It is about musicians composing in the moment, resolving one phrase with the next, and through the process of continuous resolution, arriving at a place not yet discovered.
Just as Joel Futterman's vision has evolved over the past decade, so too have his musical associations. This CD features his strongest co-leader since Jimmy Lyons, Edward 'Kidd' Jordan on tenor saxophone. In fact, one reviewer termed their association, the 'Twin Axis of Power'. These two musical soul mates are finally delivering Trane's long sought promise for his music: that sense of being, derived from the compositional clarity of musicians truly interacting musically in the moment.
by Philip R. Egert

muzycy:
Joel Futterman piano, curved soprano saxophone, Indian flute
Edward 'Kidd' Jordan tenor saxophone
Mats Gustafsson tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
Barry Guy acoustic bass
Alvin Fielder drums

utwory:
1. Hear With You (Futterman, Jordan, Gustafsson, Guy, Fielder) 1:21; 2. Soul Mates (Futterman, Jordan) 9:01; 3. Meeting Place (Futterman, Gustafsson, Guy) 6:41; 4-10. Nickelsdorf Summit (Futterman, Jordan, Gustafsson, Guy, Fielder) 44:09; 4. Part One 7:55; 5. Part Two 7:58; 6. Part Three 3:17; 7. Part Four 6:48; 8. Part Five 5:24; 9. Part Six 5:55; 10. Part Seven 6:49; 11. Fournier (Futterman, Jordan, Gustafsson, Guy, Fielder) 5:16; 12. Going With You (Futterman, Jordan, Gustafsson, Guy, Fielder) 3:14

total time - 68:33
nagrano: 1995
more info: www.silkheart.se