Changing Places

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Changing PlacesOpis:Product DescriptionIntroducing a new piano trio from Norway. Tord Gustavsen's young group, already making waves in the Far North - where 'Changing Places' has soared into the pop charts - is telling new stories within the framework of the jazz tradition. This is music that sings, at once gentle and robust. The songs Gustavsen writes sound like standards-in-the-making: lyrical, immediately memorable songs, songs of an appealing freshness, yet sophisticated in their involvement with the melodic line. And the trio improvises, with flair and originality, inside their structures. Recorded 2001-2002 Personnel: Tord Gustavsen - (piano), Harald Johnsen - (double-bass), Jarle Vespestad - (drums)Changing Places is the 2003 debut from the Tord Gustavsen Trio, a beautifully integrated and deeply lyrical Norwegian piano, bass and drums group. Over the years, a good deal of the wide-ranging music that has been recorded for ECM has been distinguished by what could be called a limpid quality of spacious phrasing or breathing--a quality as evident in matters of arrangement as in individual touch. In this regard, Changing Places is exemplary: a classic example of the many potentialities still to be exploited within the post-Bill Evans tradition. Nothing is forced, or rushed: a variety of quietly memorable, essentially poetic themes unfold, every one of them caressed rather than clipped by pianist Gustavsen. The medium-slow tempo that predominates elicits a subtly shaded range of diversely turned accompaniment from Johnsen and Vespestad. If you haven't heard the quietly but purposefully reflective Tord Gustavsen trio before, don't hesitate: this is superb stuff. --Michael TuckerReviewThough at one point in ECM's history it was tempting to think that every pianist Manfred Eicher signed up was under direct orders to play like Keith Jarrett, (or 'The Eicher Sanction" as it became known amongst the jazz cognoscenti here at BBC towers), it's really Paul Bley who's been the most pervasive influence on the label's ivory tinklers. Bley took the chamber jazz approach of Bill Evans to its apotheosis, stripping it down even further but still retaining a deeply emotive core and in the process buffing up some of the shiniest jewels in the ECM catalogue. Tord Gustavsen's taken Bley's example to heart on his debut solo album. Changing Places is a beauty, less abstract perhaps than Bley, but soaked in a hushed, delicate romanticism that's hard to resist. Most of the record is pitched at a whisper, with the spaces between the notes easily as significant as the notes themselves. Drummer Jarle Vepsestad (also of Supersilent) is felt rather than heard much of the time, while bassist Harald Johnsen provides gentle, intelligent support and lovely, guitar-like solos. The leader's improvisations are yearning, tender meditations, occasionally coloured with the palest of the Blues, and the compositions (all Gustavsen originals) have the quiet, sometimes folky ecstacies of Pat Metheny's or Keith Jarrett's ballads, with a quiet insistence that'll have you humming them for days to come. Though the theoretical writings on his site talk of (gulp) "moving creatively in a neo-Hegeliankind of way", Gustavsen'smusic is free of such intellectual baggage;fresh, intuitive and heartfelt. A truly beautiful record that (if there's any justice) will find a place as one of ECM's finest releases of the last few years, and probably a place in your heart too. Gorgeous. --Peter Marsh Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new windowAutor:Tord Gustavsen TrioNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: English: Published; English: Original Language; EnglishData wydania: 2008-12-31Waga: 0.20 gramWysokość: 0.5 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.5 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.