Kenny Wheeler: The Long Waiting on CD
The Long Waiting
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Cam Jazz
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2011
- Item number:
- 1697828
- UPC/EAN:
- 8052405140494
- Release date:
- 24.1.2012
u.a.
Der 82-jährige Trompeter Kenny Wheeler, der als Kopf großer und kleiner Ensembles sowie in Gruppen wie Azimuth, United Jazz & Rock Ensemble und dem Dave Holland Quintett stets eine außerordentliche Vielseitigkeit demonstrierte, gehört zu den wenigen Musikern im Jazz mit einer eigenen Handschrift und Vision.
In einem Alter, in dem andere längst in Rente sind, veröffentlicht Wheeler regelmäßig CDs, zuletzt „Other People“, ein Schulterschluss von Jazz und Kammermusik. Noch ambitionierter ist das Big-Band-Album „The Long Waiting“, das er mit einigen der besten britischen Jazz-Musiker, darunter John Taylor (p), Henry Lowther und Derek Watkins (tp), Ray Warleight, Duncan Lamont, Julian Argüelles und Julian Siegel (sax), Mark Nightingale (tb) John Parricelli (g) sowie der italienischen Sängerin Diana Torto aufgenommen hat.
22 Jahre nach seinem Opus Magnum, „Music For Large And Small Ensembles“, zeigt Kenny Wheeler, dass er als Leader einer Big Band, Arrangeur, Komponist und Solist nichts verlernt hat. Im Gegenteil: „The Long Waiting“ setzt erneut Standards in Sachen Big Band Jazz.
Product Information
Like few musicians in the history of music, Kenny Wheeler has been able to make his music a trademark. An approach to his instrument, the trumpet, that has marked artistic events for generations of musicians. A sound that transfixes today as it did yesterday and touches whoever comes into contact with this artist. But Kenny Wheeler is more than that. Music at its purest, an instrumentalist but also as a composer and arranger.
And "The Long Waiting", released by CAM Jazz, the label to which Wheeler now inseparably links his name, is a precious gem inside the corpus of the trumpeter's discography. After having measured his composition for string quartet with the album "Other People" (CAM Jazz), Wheeler raises the stakes by facing a much larger format: the big band. The result is amazing, unique.
A modern writing that embellishes the history of the jazz orchestra. It seems simple, listening to this work with particular attention to the melody, but in Wheeler's themes there is a compositional complexity that only a great craftsman of music is able to construct. "This torrent of beautiful melody, this acceleration in creativity reminded me of the surge in work-rate which Picasso went through, producing several works a day in 1968-1971", explains the critic Sebastian Scotney, "Or of the last four years (1893-7) and nine opus numbers (114-122) of Brahms, the period after he'd told his publisher he was packing it in. Who knows where these late flowerings in a creative life come from. They are miracles."
Yet there’s no doubt the result would not be the same without the wonderful Kenny Wheeler Big Band, an orchestra that boasts in its ranks great soloists, capable of completely satisfying the compositional ideas of their conductor. And there is also a bit of Italy in the "The Long Waiting": the talented singer Diana Torto-- a musician who, for years, Wheeler chooses not to go without.
(camjazz. com)
Rezensionen
,,Nachdem Wheeler schon oft Außerordentliches geleistet hat, gelang ihm wieder ein Meisterwerk. Etwas anderes war bei einem Musiker seines Formats kaum zu erwarten." (Audio, September 2012)
,,Stilvolle Big-Band-Kunst." (stereoplay, September 2012)
,,Die räumliche Transparenz der auch klangtechnisch brillanten Session begeistert bei jedem Stück." (Stereo, Oktober 2012)
,,Der stille Chef überrascht mit einem klaren, makellosen, sinnlichen Ton und einem Sturzbach traumhafter Melodien, die alle das Zeug zu Standards haben. Granz großer Wurf!" (Jazzthing, September / Oktober 2012)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Canter N. 6
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2 Four, five, six
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3 The long waiting
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4 Seven, eight, nine
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5 Enowena
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6 Comba N. 3
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7 Canter N. 1 / Old ballad
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8 Upwards
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