Claudia Quintet: What Is The Beautiful? auf CD
What Is The Beautiful?
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Label:
- Cuneiform
- Aufnahmejahr ca.:
- 2011
- Artikelnummer:
- 9736758
- UPC/EAN:
- 0045775032726
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 11.10.2011
Mit seinen fünf bislang veröffentlichten Alben erspielte sich das von Schlagzeuger John Hollenbeck Ende der neunziger Jahre in New York gegründete Claudia Quintet eine internationale Reputation als eine der führenden Formationen des kammermusikalischen (grenzüberschreitenden) Jazz. Mit Drew Gress (Bass), Matt Moran (Vibraphon), Ted Reichman (Akkordeon) und Chris Speed (Tenorsaxofon / Klarinette) hochkarätig besetzt, steht stets das filigran verwobene Gruppenspiel im Fokus des musikalischen Geschehens, nicht solistische Einzelbeiträge / Improvisationen der beteiligten Musiker.
War ihr letztjährig erschienenes Album „Royal Toast“ unter Mitwirkung von Keyboarder Gary Versace entstanden, so holte sich das Quintett diesmal gesangstechnische Unterstützung von zwei der derzeit angesagtesten Stimmen des zeitgenössischen Jazz. Gemeinsam mit Grammy-Gewinner Kurt Elling, der modale Gesangsimprovisationen ebenso virtuos beherrscht wie klassisches Jazz-Crooning, Blues, Pop und Rock, sowie dem in Dortmund geborenen (Wahl-New Yorker) und stilistisch zwischen Jazz, Neuer Elektronischer Musik und Performance beheimateten Echo-Jazz-Preisträger Theo Bleckmann präsentieren die Musiker hierauf einen atmosphärischen, surreal anmutenden und zugleich lyrisch swingenden Kompositionsreigen aus Modern Jazz, E-Musik und Minimal Music („Flock“).
Product Information
For their sixth album, What Is the Beautiful?, The Claudia Quintet brings together the acclaimed compositional approach of leader John Hollenbeck with two of the most important male singers in improvised music, Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann. Elling and Bleckmann recite and sing the poems of avant-garde / proto-beat American poet, Kenneth Patchen, an innovator in his time.
"Claudia with vocals?" Yes, Claudia with vocals, and it will probably not surprise anyone who has followed this much-loved, one-of-a-kind ensemble that that it still sounds completely like Claudia...but different! Kurt Elling, probably the most popular male jazz vocalist today, brings to these words – words which are, by turns, funny or poignant or thought-provoking – a hipster swagger somewhere between Ken Nordine and Tom Waits. Theo Bleckmann is, as always, Theo Bleckmann; one of the truly singular and distinctive singers in jazz today. Having both vocalists on board, with their radically different styles, was a brilliant move and gives What is the Beautiful? an tremendously wide sweep.
Formed by composer / drummer / arranger John Hollenbeck in 1997, this NYC ensemble’s sound explores the edge without alienating the mainstream, proving that genre-defying music can be for everyone. Over the past decade, the group has released CDs that are critically acclaimed world wide and whose appeal extends well beyond, as well as including traditional jazz audiences. The Claudia Quintet has amazed audiences from Alabama to the Amazon. Their unique sound has inspired dancing hippie girls at a New Mexico noise festival, the avant-garde cognoscenti in the concert halls of Vienna and Sao Paolo, and a generation of young musicians worldwide. In the course of the thousands of miles they have traveled together and hundreds of concerts they’ve played, the Claudia Quintet has evolved and grown, developing a dynamic live sound based on trust and spontaneity. They bring this powerful energy into the studio, where they record the old-fashioned way, live, playing as a band.
As on their previous CD, Royal Toast, the Claudia Quintet is again supplemented by a +1, in this case Philadelphia-based pianist Matt Mitchell. His virtuosity and spontaneity make him a perfect fit with the long-running core group – Hollenbeck on drums, Drew Gress on bass, Matt Moran on vibraphone, Ted Reichman on accordion, and Chris Speed on clarinet and tenor sax.
(cuneiformrecords. com)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Showtime/23rd Street Runs Into Heaven
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2 The Snow Is Deep On The Ground
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3 Mates For Life
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4 Job
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5 Do Me That Love
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6 Flock
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7 What Is The Beautiful?
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8 Beautiful You Are
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9 Peace Of Green
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10 The Bloodhounds
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11 Limpidity Of Silences
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12 Opening The Window