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Monday, May 9, 2016

Tim Garland - One (2016) EDITION RECORDS

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Tim Garland - One (2016)

Tim Garland Biography

Tim Garland is one of the most versatile musicians in the UK. Highly skilled as an instrumentalist, composer and bandleader, Garland has developed a highly original voice with a marriage of diverse influences combined with unique and varied line-ups. With years on the road with Chick Corea’s Vigil, Garland has built a formidable reputation as one of the leading British Jazz musicians, equally at home with an orchestra or small ensemble.

His latest release ‘Songs to the North Sky’, a double album released on Edition Records in May 2014, saw him collaborate with Royal Northern Sinfonia, bassist John Patitucci and percussionist Asaf Sirkis. The second disc, a celebratory expansion of his previous Lighthouse Project, features pianists Geoffrey Keezer, Jason Rebello and John Turville, percussionist Asaf Sirkis and guitarists Ant Law and Don Paterson (who harks right back to Tim’s Lammas days from the early 1990’s).

With a new home at Edition, his continued involvement as Chick Corea’s regular saxophonist and now writing collaborator as well as the acclaimed release of ‘Songs to the North Sky’, saw his musical career took on a new gravitas and vision.

His new album ‘Return to the Fire’, due for release in October 2015, is a special edition vinyl and download only release featuring an all-star British Jazz line-up that celebrates some of the music and the musicians that have inspired Tim Garland’s career.

In May 2016, Tim will release his major new album ‘One’ on 6th May 2016 supported by a significant Arts Council of England funded tour of the UK.

“If we are to bring these influences into our music harmoniously, we must start from the same ONE, that “big bang” of beats that we, in our myriad ways, take as our cue in this dance. While we are here, briefly, our focus on our singular origin, and our interdependence, can bring a little more light into life while we live it. To focus on our separateness would be to do the opposite.” TIM GARLAND

‘Sure footed virtuosity….a dazzling standard’. THE TIMES

‘Formidable and devastatingly creative’. THE GUARDIAN

‘His level of genius is rare’. CHICK COREA

1. Sama'i For Peace 05:37

2. Bright New Year 07:05

3. The Eternal Greeting 05:59

4. Colours of Night 06:45

5. Prototype 05:48

6. The Gathering Dark 07:19

7. Pity The Poor Arms Deal 04:30

8. Foretold 04:20

9. YouKay 08:44

TIM GARLAND

soprano and tenor sax and additional keyboards and percussion

ASAF SIRKIS drums and percussion

JASON REBELLO

piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3 organ and keyboards

ANT LAW

nylon string, 12 string, 8 string and semi-acoustic guitars

with guests

HOSSAM RAMZY

doholla, Egyptian tabla, karkabu (Samai For Peace, Colours Of Night and Foretold)

DIONNE BENNETT vocals (Pity The Poor Arms Dealer)

Released May 6, 2016

Recorded between summer 2015 and winter 2016:

Masterchord Studio - engineer Isa Khan

Woodworm Studio - engineer Stuart Jones

Eastcote Studio - engineer George Murphy

Mixed at Candle On The Moon Studio engineer Anis Finn

Mastered by Andrew Tulloch at The Blue Studio London

all compositions by Tim Garland (PRS/MCPS)

Produced by Tim Garland Music Ltd.

Asaf Sirkis plays Darbouka on YouKay

Bright New Year dedicated to Geoff Taggart

The Gathering Dark dedicated to Don Paterson

Prototype dedicated to Bill Bruford

Full lyrics for Pity The Poor Arms Dealer available at

www.timgarland.com

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Tour Dates 2016

Thursday 12th May 2016: Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Saturday 18th June 2016: Kings Place, London

Saturday 9th July 2016: Swanage Jazz Festival

Saturday 24th July 2016: Manchester Jazz Festival

Tuesday 18th October 2016: Band On The Wall, Manchester

Wednesday 19th October 2016: London, Venue TBC

Thursday 20th October 2016: St Georges, Bristol

Friday 21st October 2016: Sage Gateshead

Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016) NONESUCH RECORDS

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Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016)

Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny, due May 6, 2016, on Nonesuch Records, joins guitarist, composer, and bandleader Pat Metheny with a trio led by longtime Pat Metheny Group trumpeter Cuong Vu. The album comprises five tunes written by Vu plus one by Metheny and one by Andrew D'Angelo.

The Cuong Vu Trio includes Stomu Takeishi on bass and Ted Poor on drums. Metheny says of his record with the Trio, "This project is something that Cuong and I have talked about doing for years. For as much as I loved what Cuong has brought to my bands along the way, I always wondered what it would be like to join his group for a project, to see what I might be able to offer those guys. Cuong came up with a great set of tunes for the project, and we all met in NYC for a few days and recorded this music quite quickly and spontaneously."

Vu, who first heard a cassette of Metheny's Travels as a teenager and credits it for leading him into a career in music, adds: "Pat came to the session and killed it, taking us to different territories. We (the Trio) assimilated his sound into ours and made music that still felt uniquely ours." The trumpeter has played with a wide range of artists, including Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Dave Douglas, Myra Melford, Cibo Matto, and Mitchell Froom. Vu, a graduate of the New England Conservatory, began his career leading various groups while touring extensively throughout the world. As a leader, he has released eight recordings, each making critics' lists of the 10 best recordings of their respective years. His awards and honors include two Grammys (with Pat Metheny Group). He is currently an associate professor in jazz studies at the University of Washington.

Over the course of more than three decades, guitarist Pat Metheny has set himself apart from the jazz mainstream, expanding and blurring boundaries and musical styles. His record-setting body of work includes 20 Grammy Awards in 12 separate categories; a series of influential trio recordings; award-winning solo albums; scores for hit Hollywood motion pictures; and collaborations and duets with major artists like Ornette Coleman, Steve Reich, Charlie Haden, Brad Mehldau, and many others. His band the Pat Metheny Group, founded in 1977, is the only ensemble in history to win Grammys for seven consecutive releases.

Acid Kiss

Not Crazy (Just Giddy Upping)

Seeds of Doubt

Tiny Little Pieces

Telescope

Let's Get Back

Tune Blues

MUSICIANS

Cuong Vu, trumpet

Stomu Takeishi, bass

Ted Poor, drums

with Pat Metheny, guitar

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Produced by Cuong Vu and Pat Metheny

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Pete Karam

Recorded February 4–6 at Avatar Studios, New York, NY

Assistant Engineer: Tim Marchiafava

All music composed by Cuong Vu except "Telescope" by Pat Metheny and "Tune Blues" by Andrew D’Angelo

This recording is funded in part by the Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professorship from the University of Washington

Cuong Vu is a Yamaha Artist

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Pat Metheny - The Unity Sessions (2016) NONESUCH RECORDS

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Pat Metheny - The Unity Sessions (2016)

The Unity Sessions, released May 6, 2016, on Nonesuch Records, is taken from a filmed performance with Pat Metheny Unity Group that was released on DVD in 2015; the set comprises 13 songs by Metheny, one he co-wrote with Ornette Coleman, and one well known standard by Ray Noble.

In 2013, for the first time since 1980, Metheny recorded with a band that highlighted tenor saxophone. The resulting Unity Band, which went on to win him his 20th Grammy Award, featured Chris Potter on sax and bass clarinet, longtime collaborator Antonio Sanchez on drums, and Ben Williams on bass. Metheny then took that same ensemble into new territory with the addition of his Orchestrion and a focus on more through-composed material and christened the ensemble Pat Metheny Unity Group. The Group's first record, Kin (←→), was released by Nonesuch in 2014 and was named the best jazz album of the year in the DownBeat Readers Poll Awards. The Group went on a world tour of more than 150 cities; at the end, they hunkered down in a small Manhattan theater to film new performances of music from the original Unity Band, the expansive Kin(←→), and touchstones from the entirety of Metheny's music catalog. The results were released on DVD last year as The Unity Sessions, and now Nonesuch releases the album of the same name.

CD1

Adagia

Sign of the Season

This Belongs to You

Roof Dogs

Cherokee

Geneaology

On Day One

Medley

CD2

Come and See

Police People

Two Folk Songs (1st)

Born

Kin

Rise Up

Go Get It

MUSICIANS

Pat Metheny, electric and acoustic guitars, guitar synth, electronics, orchestrionics

Chris Potter, tenor sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet, flute, guitar

Antonio Sanchez, drums and cajon

Ben Williams, acoustic and electric basses

Giulio Carmassi, piano, flugelhorn, whistling, synth, vocals

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Produced by Pat Metheny

Co-Produced by Steve Rodby

Recorded by Pete Karam and David Oakes at the 52nd St. Project, New York, NY

Mixed by Pete Karam

Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York, NY

Guitar Tech: Carolyn Chrzan

Orchestrion Tech and Monitors: Austin Stillwell

Drum Tech: Teo Stoll

Tour Production Manager: Chris Culpepper

Tour Managers: John Nave, Dana Watson (Europe), Jerry Wortman (NYC)

Artist Management: Ted Kurland & David Sholemson for the Kurland Agency

All music composed and arranged by Pat Metheny, except "Police People," composed by Ornette Coleman and Pat Metheny, and "Cherokee," composed by Ray Noble

Antonio Sanchez plays Yamaha drums, Zildjian cymbals and sticks, Remo drumheads, LP percussion and Cympad fets exclusively; Chris Potter plays Rico Jazz Select reeds. Ben Williams appears courtesy of Concord Jazz.

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NONESUCH Releases Two New Albums from Pat Metheny on May 6 The Unity Sessions, Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny

Nonesuch Records releases a pair of new albums from guitarist, composer, and bandleader Pat Metheny on May 6, 2016. Metheny is well-known as a musical collaborator, and both records feature friends and colleagues with whom he has worked for years. The Unity Sessions is taken from a filmed performance with Pat Metheny Unity Group that was recently released on DVD; the set comprises 13 songs by Metheny, one he co-wrote with Ornette Coleman, and one well known standard by Ray Noble. And Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny joins the guitarist with a trio led by longtime Pat Metheny Group trumpeter Cuong Vu. It comprises five tunes written by Vu plus one by Metheny and one by Andrew D'Angelo. Pre-orders of The Unity Sessions and Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny are available now at iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store, each with an instant download of a track from its album ("This Belongs to You" and "Let's Get Back," respectively; you can hear both below).

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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman / Ikue Mori / Evan Parker - Miller's Tale (2016) INTAKT RECORDS

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Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman / Ikue Mori / Evan Parker - Miller's Tale (2016)

Intakt CD 270 / 2016

Miller's Tale is the high point of the collaboration of the distinctive musicians Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldmann, Evan Parker and Ikue Mori. In September 2015, they recorded the fully improvised pieces for this album. The album's track sequencing of first four whole group pieces followed by five duo pieces offer multifaced aural impressions and a rich listening experience. Henning Bolte writes in the liner notes: "Our ears usually first adhere to the known, the familiar.

But they 'squint' to something thrilling, to beautifully disturbing things, something extra to enjoy as listeners. Its attractiveness is strongly related to the quality of the known/unknown interweaving in the music. The sensible pleasure of the four musicians in Miller's Tale offers numerous arousing moments to personally connect with the music."

Miller's Tale ist die Krönung einer im Jahre 2014 anlässlich einer einwöchigen New Yorker Residenz von Evan Parker in The Stone begonnenen Kollaboration der vier MusikerInnen Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldmann, Evan Parker und Ikue Mori. Im September 2015 begaben sich die vier begnadeten Improvisatoren ins Studio und spielten die in Jetztzeit geschaffenen Stücke des vorliegenden Albums ein, dessen Anordnung mit vier Stücken im Quartett, gefolgt von fünf Duos facettenreiche Höreindrücke ermöglicht.

Henning Bolte schreibt in den Liner Notes: " Unser Ohr hält sich in der Regel zuerst ans Bekannte, Vertraute. Es 'schielt' aber immer auch auf Spannungsmomente, auf schön Verstörendes etc. – das gewisse Extra zur Ergötzung des Zuhörers. Dessen Reiz steigt mit der Qualität und Rafinesse des Wechsels und Verflechtung von Bekannt/Unbekannt im Spiel der Musiker. Das merkbar lustvolle Spiel der vier MusikInnen in Miller's Tale bietet ZuhörerInnen herrliche Reizmomente."

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano

Mark Feldman: Violin

Evan Parker: Soprano & Tenor Saxophone

Ikue Mori: Electronics

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1. Death of a Salesman (Courvoisier-Feldman-Mori-Parker) 7:57

2. A View from the Bridge (Courvoisier-Feldman-Mori-Parker) 6:30

3. The American Dream (Courvoisier-Feldman-Mori-Parker) 13:30

4. Up from Paradise (Courvoisier-Feldman-Mori-Parker) 8:03

5. Riding on a Smile and a Shoeshine (Feldman-Mori) 6:13

6. Playing for Time (Courvoisier-Parker) 4:47

7. The Reason Why (Feldman-Parker) 5:01

8. Nothing's Planted (Mori-Parker) 3:41

9. A Fountain Pen (Courvoisier-Mori) 3:46

Total Time 59:36

Music by Sylvie Courvoisier (SUISA), Mark Feldman (SUISA), Ikue Morie (BMI), Evan Parker (PRS/MCPS).

Recorded at Oktaven Audio in Yonkers, New York, September 21, 2015. Recorded and mixed by Ryan Streber.

Mastered at Total Sonic Media, Texas, 2016. Engineer: Steve Berson.

Cover art: Mario Del Curto. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Band photo: Caroline Mardok. Liner notes: Henning Bolte.

Produced by Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt. Published by Intakt Records.

Intakt CD 270 / 2016

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Fred Frith Trio - Another Day in Fucking Paradise (2016) INTAKT RECORDS

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Fred Frith Trio - Another Day in Fucking Paradise (2016)

Intakt CD 267 / 2016

Frith returns to his deep roots in this improvising trio with the classic lineup of guitar, bass and drums. Playful, intimate, and bound together by a dark and delicate interplay, the group reminds us what listening is all about. After a lifetime of experience across almost every field of musical endeavor, Fred stretches out in the company of two stalwarts of the vibrant Bay Area music scene who have their own stories to tell.

Fred Frith writes about his Trio: "When I proposed this trio I had nothing in mind beyond getting together with a couple of formidable musicians who I love and respect and seeing what would happen, which is pretty much the way things go in my world. We played a few gigs many months apart, always had a blast, invited a couple of awesome guests (Lotte Anker and Jessica Lurie) and didn't think much in conceptual or any other terms. It took playing night after night during our European tour of 2015 or some themes to start emerging. I appeared to be channeling some of my earliest rock and roll experiences – jamming with members of Pink Fairies in 1969, a couple of sad weeks in a band with Syd Barrett, and attending Gong and Pink Floyd concerts where I had the chance to absorb the lessons of Daevid Allen and Dave Gilmour. Earlier my electric guitar heroes hadbeen George Harrison and Pete Townsend, and then – as my horizons broadened – Muddy Waters and Sonny Sharrock. McLaughlin's playing in Tony Williams' Lifetime had been a revelation. On tour with the trio these voices all started clamoring for attention, and Jason's stunning ability to wring every-thing there is to be wrung out of an electric bass was as liberating as Jordan's playful, irreverent, and absolute authority. Anything can happen. Really. It's a bloody great feeling. I think this record captures it quite well!"

Fred Frith, der Improvisateur, Komponist und Multi-Instrumentalist, der lachende Aussenseiter zwischen Rock und Jazz, Improvisation und Komposition, kehrt mit seinem aktuellen Trio zurück zu seinen musikalischen Ursprüngen mit der klassischen Besetzung: Gitarre, Bass und Schlagzeug. Verspielt werden frühe Erfahrungen aus der Rock and Roll Zeit verarbeitet und mit Fred Frith's eigenwilliger Spielweise und seinem höchst persönlichen Sound weitergeführt. Nach zahlreichen Konzerten und einer ausgedehnten Trio-Europatournee ging Fred mit seinen beiden Kollegen aus der Bay-Area, dem Bassisten Jason Hoopes und dem Schlagzeuger Jordan Glenn ins Aufnahmestudio.

Zur Musik schreibt Fred Frith in den Liner notes: "Alles kann passieren. Wirklich. Es ist ein 'bloody great feeling'. Ich glaube, dieses Album drückt dieses Gefühl ziemlich gut aus." Das Gitarrentrio ergänzt die Intakt-Aufnahmen von Fred Frith mit Barry Guy, Katharina Weber, Lotte Anker sowie die beiden Song-Alben mit seiner Band Cosa Brava.

Fred Frith: Electric Guitar, Voice

Jason Hoopes: Electric Bass, Double Bass

Jordan Glenn: Drums, Percussion

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1. The Origin of Marvels 1:30

2. Dance of Delusion 3:08

3. Poor Folly 3:27

4. La Tempesta 2:30

5. Glimmers of Goodbyes 3:26

6. Yard with Lunatics 11:31

7. Only Light and Shadow 6:02

8. The Sleep of Reason 2:19

9. Straw Men 3:40

10. The Deserted Garden 1:25

11. Schlechtes Gewissen 4:28

12. Phantoms of Progress 3:44

13. The Ride Home 1:46

All Music by Fred Frith Trio.

Recorded at Sharkbite Studios, Oakland, January 2016. Engineer: Scott Evans.

Mixed at Guerrilla Recording and mastered at Headless Buddha, Oakland, March 2016. Engineer: Myles Boisen.

Cover art and band photo: Heike Liss. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder.

Produced by Fred Frith and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt. Published by Intakt Records.

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Barry Guy & Blue Shroud Band - The Blues Shroud (2016) INTAKT RECORDS

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Barry Guy & Blue Shroud Band - The Blues Shroud (2016)

Intakt CD 266 / 2016

Barry Guy hat nach den grossen Werken für das London Jazz Composers Orchestra und das Barry Guy New Orchestra eine Komposition für ein neues internationales Ensemble geschrieben: für MusikerInnen, die sowohl in der Welt der europäischen Komposition als auch in der aktuellen Improvisationsmusik zu Hause sind.

Guy's Komposition «The Blue Shroud» ist eine Hommage an Pablo Picassos Bild «Guernica». Sie erinnert an die Opfer des Bombardements, aber auch an die Verhüllung der Guernica-Tapisserie im UN-Sicherheitsrats durch ein blaues Tuch, bevor der US-Außenminister Colin Powell im September 2003 der Welt die Bombardierung und den Einmarsch in den Irak ankündigte. Die Kraft von Picassos «Guernica» versus die Macht der Militärs.

Barry Guy arbeitet mit Techniken der neuen Musik, der Jazzimprovisation, ebenso wie mit Barockmusik und einem Poem der irischen Schriftstellerin Kerry Hardie. Für die Sängerin Savina Yannatou hat er die Gedichte in ergreifende Songs gefasst. Musikalische Fragmente von Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber und Johann Sebastian Bach werden in die Komposition aufgenommen und führen zu den für Barry Guy typischen Klangsensibilitäten.

«Dieses Werk ist die Krönung der langen und vielseitigen Karriere von Barry Guy», schrieb die New Yorker Jazzzeitung «The New York City Jazz Record» nach der Uraufführung des 70-minütigen Orchesterwerks.

After his great compositions for the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the Barry Guy New Orchestra, Barry Guy has written a large scale work for a new international ensemble.

Guy's work The Blue Shroud is an hommage to the painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso. It is for the people of the Spanish town, who were victims of the Nazi German air force bombardment during the Spanish Civil War. Guy also wants us to remember the occasion in 2003, when the Guernica-tapestry at the UN Security Council was obscured by a blue drape as Colin Powell made the case for invading Iraq. The strength of art against the power of the military, government and the media.

Barry Guy uses the techniques of new music and jazz improvisation, as well as fragments of Baroque music and a poem by Irish writer Kerry Hardie. He has transformed the poem into moving songs for vocalist Savina Yannatou. Fragments of compositions by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and J.S. Bach are mingled into Guy's intricate work.

"The work might just be the crowning achievement in the Englishman's long and varied career", wrote The New York City Jazz Record magazine after the premiere of the 70 minute long masterpiece.