Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: ECM, 2009
- Bestellnummer: 1104173
- Erscheinungstermin: 6.11.2009
Ralph Towner, ewiger Supergitarrist, Gründungsmitglied von Oregon und ECM-Künstler der ersten Stunde, trifft auf Italiens Trompetenmagier Paolo Fresu. Auf »Chiaroscuro« spielt sich das ungewöhnliche Duo-Line Up durch neue und alte Towner-Klassiker, einige spontane Improvisationen und eine mitreißende Interpretation von »Blue In Green«. Von Manfred Eicher in den gleichen Räumen wie »Officium« produziert, ist »Chiaroscuro« ein selten gelungenes Duoalbum mit strahlenden Melodien und feinen Klangfarben. Towners virtuoses, nie überzogenes Picking und Fresus Trompetenton schaffen eine einmalige Symbiose luftiger Offenheit mit weitem Klangbild.
An exciting new duo, of unusual instrumentation, initiated by American master guitarist Ralph Towner. Towner’s acoustic guitar concept has long since absorbed and abstracted influences from baroque music, contemporary composition, Brazilian music and jazz, above all the jazz of Bill Evans. In this programme of Towner originals and improvisations, the sole cover version is “Blue In Green”. the Bill Evans / Miles Davis tune from the classic “Kind of Blue” album – an apt choice for Sardinia-born trumpeter Paolo Fresu, whose pure and elegant tone still carries echoes of early Miles. Towner’s own pieces offer continually changing landscapes for Fresu’s horn to grace, in a very poetic and lyrical set whose gradations of light and shade, of sound and shadows, are beautifully recorded. “Chiaroscuro” is Towner’s 22nd ECM disc as a leader and Fresu’s first - although the trumpeter guest-starred on Carla Bley’s prize-winning “The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu”, issued on WATT in 2007.
An exciting new duo, of unusual instrumentation, initiated by American master guitarist Ralph Towner. Towner’s acoustic guitar concept has long since absorbed and abstracted influences from baroque music, contemporary composition, Brazilian music and jazz, above all the jazz of Bill Evans. In this programme of Towner originals and improvisations, the sole cover version is “Blue In Green”. the Bill Evans / Miles Davis tune from the classic “Kind of Blue” album – an apt choice for Sardinia-born trumpeter Paolo Fresu, whose pure and elegant tone still carries echoes of early Miles. Towner’s own pieces offer continually changing landscapes for Fresu’s horn to grace, in a very poetic and lyrical set whose gradations of light and shade, of sound and shadows, are beautifully recorded. “Chiaroscuro” is Towner’s 22nd ECM disc as a leader and Fresu’s first - although the trumpeter guest-starred on Carla Bley’s prize-winning “The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu”, issued on WATT in 2007.
Rezensionen
M. Inhoffen in stereoplay 2/10: "Die zwei Virtuosen verstehen sich blind. Was sie verbindet: musikalische Sensibilität und ein Gespür für schöne Melodik. So improvisieren die beiden, dass es eine helle Freude ist: über eigene Stücke, den Miles-Davis-Klassiker "Blue In Green" oder den Titel "Zephyr" von Towners Gruppe Oregon. Hier waren wahre und uneitle Könner am Werk."- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Wistful Thinking
- 2 Punta Giara
- 3 Chiaroscuro
- 4 Sacred Place
- 5 Blue In Green
- 6 Doubled Up
- 7 Zephyr
- 8 The Sacred Place (reprise)
- 9 Two Miniatures
- 10 Postlude
Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu
Chiaroscuro
EUR 18,99*