Ethan Iverson - Technically Acceptable 2024

Исполнитель: Ethan Iverson
Альбом: Technically Acceptable
Жанр: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Год: 2024
Страна: USA
Лейбл: Blue Note Records
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR13
Разрядность: 24bit / 96kHz Stereo
Размер: 912 MB
Источник: qobuz
Залито на: XFile (tracks)

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Pianist Ethan Iverson is an accomplished improviser who also respects tunes. And jazz purists be damned, he's gleefully unafraid of pop music. With his former trio, The Bad Plus, Iverson alternately shocked or delighted audiences with covers of Nirvana and the Pixies. On Technically Acceptable he wades into even deeper waters by contrasting a classical music structure with jazz standards, and with more pop songs done his way.

Iverson recorded with two different rhythm sections. Bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Kush Abadey support Iverson's ambitious three-part "Piano Sonata," (reputedly the first ever sonata in the immense Blue Note catalog). There’s a focused determination to prove a work called "Piano Sonata" need not sound stuffy and formal. He imbues the work with flashes of James P. Johnson barrelhouse piano, the romantic sweep of Aaron Copeland, lots of half-quotes from the pop songbook and a lively, overarching sense of fun. (The way Iverson crashes lines with pounded chords in the Rondo is hilarious.)

With a second trio of bassist Simón Wilson and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza, Iverson also puts his personal stamp on popular music by lingering over a cover of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song." He seems ripe to score a film as demonstrated in dramatic, often kinetic changes in the short and aptly named "Conundrum." Opening with a march beat but containing a number of rhythm changes along the way, "It's Fine to Decline" (with Morgan and Abadey) is a broad canvas for Iverson to scamper across. And a remake of Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight"—with Rob Schwimmer's extraordinary theremin performance mimicking a female voice—demonstrates his creativity again in spectacular fashion.

Трэклист:

01. Conundrum
02. Victory is Assured (Alla Breve)
03. Technically Acceptable
04. Who Are You, Really?
05. The Chicago Style
06. It’s Fine to Decline
07. The Way Things Are
08. Killing Me Softly With His Song
09. ‘Round Midnight
10. The Feeling is Mutual
11. Piano Sonata: Allegro Moderato
12. Piano Sonata: Andante
13. Piano Sonata: Rondo

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