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| Eldar Live at the Blue Note [ ÉLŐ ] |
| Eldar |
| első megjelenés éve: 2006 |
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| (2006)
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Kérjen
árajánlatot! |
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| 1. | What Is This Thing Called Love
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| 2. | Someday
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| 3. | You Don't Know What Love Is
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| 4. | Daily Living
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| 5. | Dat Dere
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| 6. | Besame Mucho
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| 7. | Straight, No Chaser
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| 8. | Sincerely
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| 9. | Chronicle
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| 10. | Take The "A" Train
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Jazz / Post-Bop
Eldar - Arranger
Bill Phelps Photography
David Lai Producer, Editing
Jon D'Uva Pro-Tools
Kirk Yano Mixing, Engineer
Larry Kerr Assistant Engineer
Marco Panascia Bass
Mark Wilder Mastering
Michelle Errante Product Manager
Robert Carvell Audio Technician
Steven Remote Coordination
Susanne Cerha Design Assistant
Todd Strait Drums
Piano phenom Eldar Djangirov has most certainly heard it all before: his similarities to Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, his astounding speed, the way he's able to move his way through some of jazz's most intricate numbers, that he's played with some of the genre's biggest names, at some of the most important venues; that all of this has been accomplished before his 20th birthday. And the amazing thing about this is that all of these statements are completely true. Eldar is an exceptionally gifted pianist, regardless of age, very skilled at improvising upon a theme without completely obliterating it, alluding to it constantly while still adding his own distinct voice. All of this is portrayed very well on Eldar Live at the Blue Note. The legendary jazz club provides a good setting for the pianist and his band, bassist Marco Panascia and drummer Todd Strait, as well as special guests Chris Botti and Roy Hargrove, who add their trumpets to a track each. Eldar is quite talented at using dynamics, among other things, to his advantage, and he climbs and swings his way through the ten songs on the album. Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love" takes on new meaning as Eldar's right and left hands chop out fast alternating rhythms, and Thelonious Monk's classic "Straight, No Chaser" is ripe with interplay between the pianist and Hargrove and moves along mightily. The best piece on the album, however, is probably the one that's the relative slowest, the cover of "Besame Mucho." Here, Eldar decelerates some and lets the subtle emotion of the song really come through, his improvisations alluding to the vocals of both Nat King Cole and Carmen McRae. Perhaps the only place where Eldar's youth shows is in his original compositions, not because of their lack of complexity, but because of their seeming preoccupation with poignancy and affectation, moving away from the jazz that he clearly knows and loves and towards something closer to Windham Hill-esque music. Here, his fondness of arpeggiating is more of a weakness than a strength, as it makes the songs overtly sentimental. Eldar Live at the Blue Note more than proves the pianist's skill as musician, performer, and arranger, but his compositional ability still needs some time to develop. Considering that Eldar was just 18 when he recorded this album, there's nothing really wrong with that at all. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide
Eldar
Active Decade: '00s
Born: Jan 28, 1987 in Kyrgyzstan
Genre: Jazz
Hard boppost-bop pianist Eldar Djangirov has accomplished something that the vast majority of jazz artists -- pianists or otherwise -- will never accomplish: he landed a contract with a major label (Sony Classical) when he still wasn't old enough to vote. It is not uncommon for people to learn to play jazz during their adolescent years (especially in Western Europe), but most of them won't record an album as a leader until they are in their twenties; many won't even be recorded as sidemen until after they reach their twenties. Djangirov, however, started recording as a leader when he was in his mid-teens, and had recorded three albums before his 18th birthday. Djangirov, an immigrant from what used to be the Soviet Union, brings an intriguing variety of bebop, hard bop, post-bop and swing influences to his work. The acoustic pianist (who also plays electric keyboards but is essentially straight-ahead in his approach) has been greatly affected by the clear, crystalline playing of Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Keith Jarrett, and Ahmad Jamal; like those musicians, he can be quite lyrical (sometimes in an impressionistic way). But he has also shown his appreciation of Oscar Peterson and Red Garland's funkiness at times, and his other influences range from McCoy Tyner to Bud Powell to pre-bop master Art Tatum. A Djangirov solo might acknowledge anything from Thelonious Monk's angularity to Garland's use of what musicians refer to as "block chords" (a technique that is easy for jazz listeners to recognize even if they don't understand the exact technical meaning of the term). Despite having recorded for Sony Classical, Djangirov is not a classical-oriented musician -- straight-ahead jazz is definitely his main focus. But like many jazz musicians, he has been influenced by the European classical tradition and can bring some of the Euro-classical vocabulary to his improvisations.
Djangirov was born on January 28, 1987 in Kyrgyzstan in the former Soviet Union, which did away with communism when he was only a child. At the age of five, he began studying the piano with his mother Tatiana Djangirov (who was a music teacher in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). In 1996, a nine-year-old Eldar Djangirov performed at a jazz festival in Novosibirsk, Russia, where a visiting American jazz supporter named Charles McWhorter heard him for the first time. Feeling that the young pianist had a great deal of potential, McWhorter arranged for him to attend a summer camp at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Djangirov ended up staying in the United States; after leaving Michigan, he lived in Kansas City before making San Diego, CA his home. The improviser's first album, Eldar [D&D], was released in 2001, when he was 14; that disc was followed by the release of his sophomore disc, Handprints, in 2003. In 2004, Djangirov signed with Sony Classical and recorded his third album, which is also titled Eldar [Sony]; the album boasts John Patitucci on bass and Michael Brecker on tenor sax and was given a March 2005 release date. Two years later Eldar released Re-Imagination, which saw the pianist stretching out into solo acoustic piano and even electronica territory. Virtue appeared in 2009.
--- Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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