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| 1. | Flight of the Blue Jay
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| 2. | Pannonica
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| 3. | Brad's Bag
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| 4. | Celia
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| 5. | The Blue Room
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| 6. | Milestones
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| 7. | Light Blue
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| 8. | Conception
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| 9. | East Coast
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| 10. | Barbados
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| 11. | Work
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Jazz / Avant-Garde; Post-Bop
Recorded: Aug 20-21, 1996
If we should be declined to suppose that Paul Motian has changed sides and decided to become neo-traditionalistic on his old days we will surely be wrong. "Bebop" might suggest such a conclusion but we just have to look at the line-up of his Electric Bebop Band and will be convinced of the contrary. Besides Steve Swallow (bass) the leader put together a band of 4 young musicians: the "tweny-somethings" Chris Potter/Chris Cheek on saxophone and Brad Schoeppach/Kurt Rosenwinkel on electric guitar play the once so wild bebop themes as if they had been composed just yesterday. The result is far from being a mechanical repetition of historical forms: Motians band unites respect for tradition with the will for contemporary expression.
In the early sixties Paul Motians breakthrough as an important drummer in jazz fell in a time which was rather hostile to bebop idioms. As member of the now legendary Bill Evans trio with Scott LaFaro (1959-64) Motian experienced new ways of freeing himself from the role of a mere time keeper. The quartet with Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden and Dewey Redman practised new ways of organizing musical communication within a group which are still challenging today. After these important experiences Motian continued to prove ways of innovative jazz music which are most impressively documented on his leader albums for JMT and by the work of his trio with Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell which just celebrated the 15th year of its existence with the album "Sounds Of Love" (Winter & Winter 910 008-2).
But besides all interest in progressive form and content Paul Motian never stopped being attracted by the great works of the jazz tradition. Grown up with bebop, he never lost touch with this music and its great personalities. On numerous albums Paul Motian referred to the history of jazz in a very personal way and on the highest musical level. The formation of the Electric Bebop Band and their debut in 1993 added a new quality to his work with tradition. "They transfer the spirit of bebop to modern times" wrote German Audio; "with the Electric Bebop Band the bebop-tunes sound like they had been composed 50 days, not 50 years ago," Body & Soul stated.
A second production with the Electric Bebop Band was so important to Paul Motian that he brought the band together at the Power Station studio in New York on a few days off from his extensive european tours with his own trio and Charlie Hadens Liberation Music Orchestra. The second album of Paul Motians Electric Bebop Band was recorded in a two days studio session live to two track.
Inspite of some change regarding the personal of his band Paul Motian didn't change the basic concept for his third recording with the Bebop Band "Flight Of The Blue Jay": Not just being retrospective, no simple deconstrction, but contemporary interpretations of bebop tunes with young musicians and extraordinary instrumentation (2 electric guitars and 2 saxophones) which gives the tunes back some of their original wildness.
And Motians concept works very well. So it becomes a real pleasure to hear the 4 melody instruments playing around the bebop lines. Unisono passages, duo-solos, constant change of roles in the fore- and background supported by a strong rhythm section with a Paul Motian, whose drumming sounds characteristic even when he is just playing "straight".
Kurt Rosenwinkel - electric guitars
Brad Schoeppach - electric guitars
Chris Potter - tenor sax
Chris Cheek - tenor sax
Steve Swallow - electric bass
Paul Motian - drums |
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