Eight ( 3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh

Occupation

Eight ( 3) Tristano Compositions 1989: For Warne Marsh is a jazz album by Anthony Braxton, which was recorded on 10 and 11 December 1989 at Sage & Sound Recording Studio Hollywood and in 1990 appeared at HatHut Records.

The album

Braxton's recognition of prior jazz innovators such as Thelonious Monk, Lennie Tristano, Warne Marsh and Paul Desmond is documented in his interviews and in music, starting with What's New in the Tradition ( Steeplechase, 1974) to his piano recordings in New York's Knitting Factory in the 1990s; he has his listeners regularly reminded of his roots in jazz, without imitating the style of other musicians.

Braxton understood this album as a tribute to the saxophonist Warne Marsh, who studied with Lennie Tristano in 1948, and at Tristano's band of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in which also played alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and guitarist Billy Bauer.

His teacher Jack Gell brought the four -year-old Braxton close some compositions, so Bob Graettingers City of Glass ( interpreted by the Stan Kenton Orchestra ) and Tristano pieces puppet, Sax of a Kind and Wow (which were later gathered on the album Cross Currents ). Braxton's interest for this "white music " of the early 50s - in the liner notes, he mentions the racist hostility on the part of his African-American colleagues - was finally awakened by the album Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre, in particular through the solos of Warne Marsh in The Song Is You and When Your Lover Has Gone ". Listen to the inner logic of his solos, his rhythm and time concept, his profound use of harmonies, before all his ingenuity " His reverence for Warne Marsh put Braxton in 1973 in the Composition No.. 23M ( on the album Four Compositions 1973) expression characterized by interval jumps in unison interplay of piano and alto saxophone, again in 1974 in Marsh Mallow ( In In the tradition Vol. 1) and 1985 in Background Music ( in Seven Standards Vol 1).

In Braxton's own band here Jon Raskin played on baritone saxophone, Dred Scott on piano ( his recording debut of here had ), Cecil McBee on bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums. The program included - so the album title - eight compositions Tristano, supplemented by two jazz standards ( from the repertoire of Tristano and Marsh ) by Irving Berlin ( How Deep Is the Ocean ), and Vincent Youmans (Time on My Hands) as well as a composition by Warne Marsh ( Sax of a Kind ). [A 1]

The album begins with four Tristano pieces, the first played at high speed Two Not One, followed by 317E 32nd Street in the medium - pace at which Braxton Raskin and the subject recite in unison. Dreams play Braxton and pianist Scott as a duo; the fast bebop piece Lennie's Pennies again quintet in which all musicians deliver solo contributions. [A 2]

In the ballad How Deep Is the Ocean Braxton plays the flute, accompanied only by the rhythm section; after the fast Tristano Number Victory Ball [ A 3 ] follows Warne Marsh Sax of child; Braxton (soprano), Raskin ( baritone) and Scott ( piano ) play it in a trio. The relatively abstract composition follows the catchy Lennie Bird with Bop typical drum sprinklings Cyrille; Scott and Braxton have longer solos, before the issue put forward in unison ends the piece. The lyric Time on My Hands plays Braxton back on flute; after a second take of the Victory over the Tristano numbers follow Baby ( Braxton / Scott duo ) and April ( quintet ).

Reception Album

In his review at Allmusic Thom Jurek rated the album with the highest rating and praised " the lyrical brilliance and subtle beauty of this tribute ." He continued, " Tristano's Songbook - Charlie Parker's leg keep a sense of harmony and his own sense of lyrical melodies and counterpoints - is free of errors performed by his band. " They played with a very different sense of clarity and emotional intensity as they only the time interval enables. So will do so in Lennie 's Pennies, where Braxton and Raskin is the subtle melodic inventiveness of the original from 1952 annäherten. Irving Berlin's lilting lyrical How Deep Is the Ocean they would give " a force in beauty and complexity." In Warne Marsh Sax of a Kind Braxton would offer his well emtionalstes game, Marsh's interested own feeling for the composition to give that met him when he heard this piece of it:

Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded the album the second- highest rating, but noted limiting the role of the second saxophonist John Raskin on, in which " it is not clear whether he fully understood the idiom " have. However, the authors raise the game of the pianist Dred Scott and the " veterans " in the rhythm section, Cecil McBee and Andrew Cyrille. His mastery of standards was " no less radical " as Braxton's own compositions.

The tracks on the album

  • HatHut Records CD 6052
  • All compositions ( unless otherwise stated ) come from Lennie Tristano.
  • The additional pieces rehearsed Wow, Dreams ( take 2) and Lennie's Pennies ( take 2) were released on the album Kimus # 4 ( hatART 16004, 1991).

Weblink

  • Review of the album by Thom Jurek with Allmusic (English). Accessed on January 8, 2011.

Swell

  • Anthony Braxton: liner notes of the album (1990 )
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD; Second Edition, London, Penguin, 1993
  • Art Lange: liner notes of the album (1990 )
Record label Genre SteepleChase Records Homage Robert Graettinger Melody Richard Cook (journalist) Brian Morton (Scottish writer) Peter Ind Al Levitt Metronome All-Stars Dizzy Gillespie Miles Davis Fats Navarro J. J. Johnson Buddy DeFranco Charlie Ventura Ernie Caceres Eddie Safranski Shelly Manne
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