Timeless (John-Abercrombie-Album)

Occupation

  • Guitar: John Abercrombie
  • Organ, Synthesizer, Piano: Jan Hammer
  • Drums: Jack DeJohnette

Timeless is a jazz album by John Abercrombie, taken on 21 and 22 June in 1974 and published in 1975 by ECM Records.

The album

Timeless was the debut album of the 29 -year-old guitarist John Abercrombie, who at that time with Dave Liebman's Lookout Farm project ( which began for ECM ), as well as worked in the fusion band of drummer Billy Cobham. There he met keyboardist Jan Hammer, who among other things played with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. For his first recording session on the young ECM label, the drummer Jack DeJohnette was joined by, who had recorded for the label in 1971 with the album Keith Jarrett Ruta and Daitya. Hammer and Abercrombie were so heavily involved at this time in the fusion movement, and DeJohnette had come with the latest Rock Jazz with its involvement in the Miles Davis album Bitches Brew in touch. Musically Timeless feeds from all of these influences, particularly from Davis ' In a Silent Way in 1968, by playing off the subtler side of the genre, particularly as to hear the title piece.

The album includes four original compositions by Abercrombie, two titles come from Hammer ( " Lungs " and "Red and Orange ". ) " Lungs " begins with a pulsating organ / guitar interplay that strongly by an played on the Moog synthesizer Bassriff and is influenced by De Johnettes drumming style. "Love Song" is a played with acoustic instruments Duo Ballad of Jack; Hammer accompanied him on the wing. The swinging " Ralph 's Piano Waltz" shines through Polychorde and sophisticated tempo changes. Ralph Towner, at the piano Abercrombie composed the piece and to whom he dedicated the piece, the piece took on in 1979 on his album solo concert. Abercrombie plays here again electrically amplified guitar, Jan Hammer, the Hammond organ. Similarly aggressive as " Lungs " is " Red and Orange", the second composition hammer. This plays in this play the organ heavily percussive. "Remembering " is another acoustic ballad played by Jack. The highlight of the disc is the title track; built on a simple melody, the piece in a spherical atmosphere by the organ in the background, synthesizer effects and the drumming DeJohnettes is becoming more intense in ascending sequences begins. The title made ​​John Abercrombie mid-1970s about the jazz circles also known.

The title

Timeless - ECM 1047 ST or 829114-2 ( CD Edition )

Effect

The album was one of the appeared in the mid-1970s as the records of Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Ralph Towner and Jan Garbarek, who created the image of the Munich-based label of the " ECM sound ".

The commercial success of Timeless followed once more shots John Abercrombie with different musicians of the ECM " stable " as Dave Holland (Gateway, 1975), Collin Walcott ( Cloud Dance, 1975) and Enrico Rava ( The Pilgrim and the Stars ), and albums by Ralph Towner, Jack DeJohnettes band (New ) Directions, Barre Phillips ( Mountainscapes ) and Kenny Wheeler (Deer Wan ). With the " brilliant " debut album Timeless began for Abercrombie a " long and fruitful cooperation" with the Munich-based label; Cook and Morton just expect Manfred Eicher on high to have so often undervalued artists emerged so.

Assessment

The weekly newspaper Die Zeit wrote: " The most intense this manifests Jazz in the fast, the most beautiful in the quiet pieces there where the sounds excitatory plasticity win." The music magazine " Stereo" wrote: "I can not remember ever having such a coherent and me - most of all - to have heard moving debut album". stereoplay one album to the " timeless recordings. " After Scott Yanow is " thought provoking and at times exciting music that defies categorization at all. "

Literature / Sources

  • Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD ( 6th edition ), ISBN 0-14-051521-6
  • Liner notes of the album John Abercrombie: Rarum, ECM, by John Abercrombie
  • ECM catalog: " ECM ` 82 "

Links / sources

  • ECM

Comments

  • Album ( Jazz )
  • 1975 album
  • Album ( fusion)
Record label John Abercrombie (guitarist) Jazz fusion Moog-Synthesizer Richard Cook (journalist) Jan Erik Kongshaug
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