Så här skriver NewYork Times om Carla Bley´s ny skiva "Trios" ECM2287 CARLA BLEY, ANDY SHEPPARD, STEVE SWALLOW “Trios” (ECM) The pianist-composer Carla Bley has never had a problem expressing her slanted but sturdy logic, typically scoring her music for a big band or a midsize combo. “Trios” is the definitive document of a chamberlike trio she has led on the road for the last 20 years, with her longtime partner Steve Swallow on bass, and Andy Sheppard on tenor and soprano saxophones. It’s also a good distillation of her language, an argument for its unforced insight and plainspoken grace. All the music on “Trios” has been recorded elsewhere over the years, which accounts for the album’s air of retrospection. Because most previous versions featured larger ensembles, there’s also a sense of reduction, as if the album were an exhibition of preparatory sketches. But the album isn’t a side note, because Ms. Bley and her band mates bring so much life to their interactions, with one another and with the material. This is especially true on “Wildlife,” a three-part suite from the 1980s, and “Vashkar,” perhaps best known for a 1963 version by the pianist Paul Bley (the composer’s husband at the time). Ms. Bley’s calmly interrogatory pianism is matched to Mr. Swallow’s springy electric bass sound, and they have a straight man in Mr. Sheppard: his dry melancholy on “Utviklingssang,” a Nordic-inspired ballad, would be hard to top. Remarkably, this is the first album Ms. Bley has ever made with a producer: Manfred Eicher, the founder of ECM, which has been her distributor but never her label home. And it’s no slight to suggest that Mr. Eicher serves as a fourth artistic presence on “Trios,” because the end result presents Ms. Bley’s vision so clearly. NATE CHINEN Köp Cd här : (klicka nedan)
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