Vijay Iyer Accelerando (CD) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: AccelerandoCondition: NewFormat: CDGenre: JazzArtist: Vijay IyerNo Of Discs: 1EAN: 0614427952424Release Date: 02/24/2012Description: PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN KURZBESCHREIBUNG Einen der „wichtigsten Pianisten der Gegenwart“ nennt die weltbekannte Zeitschrift The New Yorker den Indo-Amerikaner Vijay Iyer. Eine ganze Reihe von weiteren Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen für seine unwiderstehliche, vielgestaltige Vision einer Musik des 21. Jahrhunderts bestätigen diese Aussage. Sein neues, insgesamt viertes ACT-Album Accelerando bringt nach „Solo“ und „Tirtha“ wieder sein angestammtes Trio mit Bassist Stephan Crump und Schlagzeuger Marcus Gilmore zusammen. Es knüpft damit an das Grammy-nominierte „Historicity“ an, das 2009 so oft wie kein anderes zum Album des Jahres gewählt wurde. Auf Accelerando hat Vijay Iyer eine spannende thematische Klammer gefunden - den Tanz: „Tanz ist der körperliche Weg, Musik zu hören – er ist eine universelle Reaktion. Der Impuls zu Tanzen war immer ein Herzstück des Jazz. Dieses Fundament rhythmischer Kommunikation will ich in meiner Arbeit nie vergessen. Musik ist für mich Aktion.“ Diese mündet hier in wahrhaft überraschenden Interpretationen sowohl traditioneller Jazz- wie taufrischer Pop- und Funkstücke: Kompositionen von Duke Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Henry Threadgull, Heatwave, Flying Lotus und Michael Jackson werden adaptiert und eingerahmt von bezwingenden Eigenkompositionen aus der Feder von Vijay Iyer. REZENSION Pianist Iyer's trio is a very different one to Brad Mehldau's, but this successor to 2009's Historicity still invites some comparisons in its strong rhythmic drive, ensemble strength and sense of jazz history balanced by an openminded contemporaneity. As with Historicity, Iyer mixes originals with angles on known and lesser-known jazz composers (Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Henry Threadgill). He also re-examines a personal favourite (the Michael Jackson song Human Nature), and vividly recasts Henry Threadgill's brass-and-guitars piece Little Pocket-Sized Demons for piano trio, using Stephan Crump's agile arco bass to suggest the original's tubas. Iyer's low piano rumble on Heatwave's The Star of a Story is pushed and pulled by Crump's darting bassline and drummer Marcus Gilmore's snare snap, and Flying Lotus' Mmmhmm emerges in liquid chords over a heartbeat bass-drum and a bowed-bass countermelody. For the jazz-rooted, Herbie Nichols' Wildflower swings in clanking, Monkish outbursts over shuffling brushes. The world's full of fine jazz piano trios, but Iyer's is way up the A-list. FOUR STARS --The Guardian Influential New York pianist Vijay Iyer is a sorcerer of rhythm, with formidable intellectual as well as musical chops, and there s a satisfying complexity to his music, as though the playing is just the tip of the iceberg. One senses vast amounts of information and practice lurking just beneath the surface, which imparts a particular kind of density to the group s sound. The tunes are a mix of the pianist s jagged originals and choice covers ranging from Herbie Nichols s Wildflower to Michael Jackson s Human Nature. They build in waves of riff and melody, embedded in organic rhythms that spiral upwards out of the groove. Bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore have been active partners in the development of the trio s unique palette over the past decade, and Gilmore in particular has developed a knack for complex, lop-sided rhythms that constantly shift and surprise, whilst never straying too far from the groove. Music for the head and the feet, if not always the heart. FOUR STARS --Irish TimesCountry/Region of Manufacture: DeutschlandRecord Label: Act (Edel)Release Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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