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| 1. | It Could Have Been a Lot Worse
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| 2. | The Third Rail
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| 3. | Impacted Wisdom
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Jazz
Avant-Garde Jazz
Avant-Garde
Modern Creative
Free Jazz
Free Improvisation
Recorded: Aug 1993
Nice View - the second JMT-release of the composer and alto saxophonist Tim Berne with his group "Caos Totale" provides new insights in the work of one of the most requested artists in progressive jazz music.
The musical landscapes Berne creates with his group are far from being just "nice", as the title of the CD could suggest. Instead of romantic idylls Berne designs thrilling and also uncomfortable musical constructions.
Bernes new production consequently continues his previous musical development. As a result Nice View contains three compositions which shake our listening habits with a load of complexity.
Tim Berne just received enthusiastic critics for his 1993 album Diminutive Mysteries (mostly Hemphill) (JMT 919 060-2). His interpretation of pieces by his former teacher and important contemporary composer Julius Hemphill was regarded as one of the most astonishing jazz releases in 1993. Jazztimes called the album a "touchstone recording" and Jazziz discovered "adventurous jazz thinking" in Berne's music.
So Berne's reputation, which he formed in a 15 year long, very individual journey through the jazz scene, should finally be stabilized. His releases on his own Empire label, the fruitful cooperation with the cellist Hank Roberts and the drummer Joey Baron in the trio project Miniature (two CD's on JMT), Fractured Fairy Tales, his first solo release on JMT (JMT 919 030-2) and Pace Yourself (JMT 919 040-2), his first production with Caos Totale are all important documents and expression of a musical search beyond definite systems and opinions of what should pretendedly mean "right" and "wrong" in music.
Berne started playing the saxophone intensely extraordinary late, being already 20 years old. Now 39 years old, he profits from never having comitted himself to playing standard jazz. Nice View presents his ongoing musical experiments on a progressed level, referring to his compositional techniques as well as to his own sax playing, which together form a very personal way of expression.
As an extension of Pace Yourself the new CD features three compositions by Tim Berne which go far beyond what a traditional jazz tune is like. Their complex structure and lenght makes them appear rather suite-like, without letting them sound too calculated or academic. The band transforms the remarkable diversity of ideas into an energetic whole.
Tim Berne's musicians present themselves as an eminently homogenous ensemble, highly capable and eager to realize the compositions of their leader. Frequent live playing during the two years since Pace Yourself has surely contributed a lot to the creation of such an organic and compact group-sound.
The french guitar-player Marc Ducret manages to supplement Bernes themes with his extraordinary way of phrasing and using hidden sound aspects of his instrument. Herb Robertson on trumpet, Steve Swell on trombone, Mark Dresser on bass and Bobby Previte on drums are the other musicians who in the meantime have established themselves as legitimate musical partners at Berne's side. On Nice View Berne's compositions provide the musicians with enough space to present their competence without obtrusiveness. Impacted Wisdom, with 38 minutes the longest piece on the CD, reveals the strength of the single musicians best. Through the first half of the composition we hear an unaccustomed number of very intensive and concentrated solo-, duo- and trio improvisations which are followed by a second highly rhythmical part which puts the introduced fragments together in a dynamic groove.
In one more aspect Nice View surpasses Pace Yourself: Berne integrates one of the most astonishing newcoming musicians of 1993 into his band and extends it to a septet: Django Bates from England has released one of the most thrilling debut albums in 1993. Summer Fruits (and unrest) (JMT 919 065-2) was as well as Djangos appearance on the Berlin Jazz Festival '93 widely regarded as a sensation. Bates completes Caos Totale - rather unconventionally for improvised music - with piano, keyboard and peck horn. Bates challenges the sextet, adds new colors to its sound with clever placed samples and sensitive piano and horn passages.
All in all on Nice View Tim Berne shows himself able to continue his work with highest quality, never stopping to look for new possibilities that could lie in techniques of composition and structured improvisation as means to create a unique sound. Moreover Tim Berne should not only receive acknowledgement for his compositional and instrumental skills, but also for his ability to form a group with such outstanding musical individuals from the first row of contemporary music who realize his compositions in such a promising and thrilling way.
- Original Press Text from 1994
Tim Berne - alto saxophone
Mark Dresser - contrabass
Herb Robertson - trumpet
Steve Swell - trombone
Bobby Previte - drums
Marc Ducret - guitars, shades |
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