Artist: John Abercrombie
Album: Class Trip
Year: 2004
Genre: Jazz
Format,bitrate: Mp3 320Kb HQ CBR
Size: 152 Mb
Tracklisting:
01 Dansir
02 Risky Business
03 Descending Grace
04 Illnoise
05 Cat Walk
06 Excuse My Shoes
07 Swirls
08 Jack and Betty
09 Class Trip
10 Soldier's Song
11 Epilogue
Personnel:
John Abercrombie (guitar)
Mark Feldman (violin)
Marc Johnson (bass)
Joey Baron (drums)
Although atmosphere and ambience can take priority over compositional focus on some ECM releases, this is far from the case with CLASS TRIP. The product of guitarist John Abercrombie's collaboration with violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson, and drummer Joey Baron (their follow-up to 2002's CAT 'N' MOUSE), CLASS TRIP is an exemplar of what ECM does best. This is spare, brilliantly conceived chamber jazz with the artists' superior improvisational skills--which draw equally on jazz, modern classical, avant-garde, and even pop idioms--on abundant display.
Abercrombie's delicate tone and light touch on the guitar belie a complex and challenging compositional sensibility. The leader's tunes push at structural conventions and notions of traditional interplay. Yet for all its experimental verve, the disc is highly melodic--the music is as dreamy and lilting as it is challenging (as on the lovely "Risky Business"). Nods to post-bop ("Illinoise"), electric fusion ("Swirls"), and classical music (a de-constructive take on Bartok's "Soldier's Song") reveal key influences, but the whole is remarkably--and satisfyingly--original. (By CDUniverse)
Recorded at Avatar Studio, New York, New York in February 2003.
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