Dave Liebman / Joe Lovano: Compassion - Music of John Coltrane

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2021-04-02
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
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Zbliżając się do 50. rocznicy śmierci Coltrane'a, „Compassion” jest odpowiednim hołdem dla jego spuścizny. Zawiera gwiazdorski zespół długoletnich współpracowników, na czele z legendami jazzu Dave'em Liebmanem i Joe Lovano, pianistą Philem Markowitzem, basistą Ronem McClure i perkusistą Billym Hartem.
Wiosną 2007 roku BBC skontaktowało się z saksofonistą Dave'em Liebmanem z prośbą o ustalenie daty nagrania upamiętniającej 40. rocznicę śmierci Johna Coltrane'a. Ze względu na wcześniejsze zobowiązania nie mógł zebrać całej grupy Saxophone Summit, ale wraz z kolegami z Summit Joe Lovano, Billym Hartem i Philem Markowitzem, wspieranymi przez basistę Rona McClure'a, byli w stanie zrobić sesję nagraniową.
Nagrane kompozycje Coltrane'a obejmują różne okresy życia Trane'a, z wczesnym okresem reprezentowanym przez zmieniony blues „Locomotion”, inspirowany etnicznie okresem „Olé” i „Equinox”. Późniejsze lata reprezentowane są przez rzadko słyszany „Reverend King” i „Compassion” z epickiej płyty Meditations. Z Joe Lovano grającym na flecie, tenorze, aulachrome (nowa innowacja na saksofonie) i flecie altowym, wraz z Dave'em Liebmanem na sopranie i fletach, muzyka eksploruje dziedzictwo Coltrane'a z nowoczesnym podejściem kolorystycznym.

Editor's info:
Now approaching the 50th anniversary of Coltrane's passing, Compassion is a fitting tribute to his legacy. Featuring Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Billy Hart, Phil Markowitz, and Ron McClure - these recordings cover the various periods of Trane's life. The early period by the altered blues 'Locomotion,' and mid period ethnic-influenced 'Olé' and 'Equinox.' The later years by the rare 'Reverend King' and 'Compassion' from the Meditations album.

JazzTimes
Compassion contains more recent material than other archival releases on the Resonance label. It was recorded in 2007 for broadcast on BBC Radio in the U.K. Saxophonists Dave Liebman and Joe Lovano, pianist Phil Markowitz, bassist Ron McClure and drummer Billy Hart commemorate the 40th anniversary of John Coltrane’s death in 1967. The typically classy Resonance production includes a 24-page booklet that fills in the backstory, with statements from all five musicians and many nice photos. The occasion is a blowing session, but one with a plan. The seven Coltrane originals represent all periods of his short, monumental career. Therefore the players can respond to each of the distinct aesthetic worlds that Coltrane occupied.
“Locomotion,” a hard-bop blues with a bridge, is from the classic 1958 album Blue Train. Out of its opening commanding announcement, Coltrane charged like a one-man cavalry. In 2007 Liebman and Lovano acknowledge Coltrane’s spiritual power without imitating him. Both on tenor saxophone, they jointly recreate Coltrane’s headlong charge, then solo in their own postmodern languages: floods of exhilarating free association (Lovano); shrill expletives and hard angles (Liebman). Coltrane did not solo on his 1960 recording of “Central Park West,” which sets Lovano absolutely free to wander among the multiple key centers of this solemn ballad and come upon his own revelations. Liebman also has a ballad, “Dear Lord,” unusually diatonic for 1965 Coltrane. On soprano, he chooses his slow path through the song like a man discovering how to bare his soul.
The 17-minute title track (from Meditations, 1966) launches the ensemble into the wild uncharted waters of late Coltrane, where all passages to beauty run through chaos. Hart, Markowitz and Liebman, in their spontaneous creative reactions to freedom, dig deep. This new “Compassion” is huge, diverse and sustained, although a vote is hereby cast for Lovano to abandon the aulochrome, an annoying, gimmicky instrument.
by Thomas Conrad

the Guardian
Rugged and ethereal … Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman – a powerful tribute!
Ten years ago, for the 40th anniversary of the inspirational saxophonist John Coltrane’s death, the BBC’s Jazz on 3 commissioned a tribute from sax virtuosi and , embracing the hard-bop Coltrane of the late 1950s as well as the anthemic free-jazz master he became. Resonance has put those tapes out for this 50th-anniversary year. Liebman had to assemble a hastily modified version of his band (Phil Markowitz is on piano, the wonderful Billy Hart on drums), but the collective passion is palpable, as is the jam-session uninhibitedness. Liebman and Lovano rip through Coltrane’s boppish Locomotion as a two-tenor tussle; Lovano’s rugged tenor and Liebman’s ethereal soprano sharply contrast on a segue of Central Park West and the rapturous Dear Lord; Coltrane’s world musicianship is evoked by the Spanish theme of Olé; there’s an Amazing Grace mood to Reverend King, and a prayerlike ecstasy to the freeform title track. The full breadth of the shortlived Coltrane’s legacy is rarely celebrated so authoritatively and completely.
by John Fordham

muzycy:
Dave Liebman- tenor/soprano sax, wooden recorder, C flute
Joe Lovano - tenor sax, aulochrome, alto clarinet, Scottish flute
Phil Markowitz - piano
Ron McClure - bassist
Billy Hart - drummer

utwory:
1. Locomotion Composed By – J. Coltrane (6:11)
2. Central Park West / Dear Lord Composed By – J. Coltrane (8:09)
3. Olé Composed By – J. Coltrane (8:46)
4. Reverend King Composed By – J. Coltrane (5:20)
5. Equinox Composed By – J. Coltrane (6:39)
6. Compassion Composed By – J. Coltrane (17:27)

wydano: Apr 2, 2021
nagrano: Recorded on June 22, 2007 at Clinton Recording Studio NYC from the BBC Radio

more info: www.resonancerecords.org