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| Poem About the Hero |
| Mujician |
| első megjelenés éve: 1995 |
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| (1995)
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| 5.529 Ft
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| 1. | First Verse
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| 2. | Second Verse
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| 3. | Third Verse
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| 4. | Fourth Verse
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| 5. | Fifth Verse
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Jazz
Mujician
Keith Tippett - Guitar, Maracas, Pan Flute, Piano, Wood Block
Paul Dunmall - Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Paul Rogers - Double Bass
Tony Levin - Drums, Percussion
"The second album from Mujician was recorded live earlier this year. In the interim, free jazz has developed a tradition and language which Poem About The Hero unashamedly refers to. It may not be that radical anymore, but Tippett's ensemble can still surprise you with the ease with which it can slip in and out of different formal confines - from the rich and balladic, through the microtonal and muscular. "
---The Wire
"Despite the intense free-jazz dialogue and improv, there are several instances of lush melodic content along with moments of quiet solitude. Mujician isn't about an eccentric bunch of free jazzers competing against one another, but a tight cohesive unit with a stake planted firmly in the ground. Highly recommended."
--- All About Jazz
* Paula Millet - Design, Graphic Design
* Simon Clarke - Engineer
* Steve Allan - Engineer
Mujician's first release was a long journey; their second release is a poem in five verses. Although all four musicians are active in other groups and as solo artists, at this point they had been playing together for roughly six years and they display the group sensitivity which is essential for a quality improvisational combo. Recorded in front of a small live audience, this performance is perhaps more abstract and free than the first effort, and has somewhat less in the way of overt Coltrane-isms. Although there are only a few extended solos taken, each musician has opportunities to show what he can do, as all five tracks provide a shifting kaleidoscope of duets and trios, as well as the frequent collective engagement of all four participants. Paul Dunmall, who plays only tenor and soprano saxes on this CD, is the emotional core of the group. He is a marvelously fluent and flexible player, but everything he plays also seems to have strong personal conviction. Pianist Keith Tippett, with his classical training, is the group intellectual, and is not adverse to outside techniques such as plucking or strumming the piano strings. Whenever the group direction seems to be headed toward the conventional, Tippett is usually the one who inserts the strange, unexpected chords or rhythmic bursts, as if to remind everyone (including other group members) that Mujician will not settle for the easy solutions. And while Tony Levin on drums and Paul Rogers on bass are by definition the "rhythm section," they are also much more than that. Rogers has a huge tone and superb intonation, and does far more than just establish a pulse. Likewise with Levin, who qualifies not only as a powerhouse, polyrhythmic drummer, but as a percussionist and "colorist." All verses on this recording are highly entertaining, but the last and longest, "Fifth Verse," at over 30 minutes, shows off the quartet at its most daring. Building on nothing more than some curious high-end ivory tinkling by Tippett, it gradually acquires the momentum of a runaway freight train by the time Dunmall wades in on tenor, and then abruptly slows to ballad romanticism, with Dunmall gorgeously lyrical for a while, and Tippett joining in for some very moody, impressionistic playing. One of the real pleasures of Mujician's collective improvisations, for the listener, is the opportunity for active participation in the experience, attempting to guess where a particular line of musical inquiry will lead, and continually being surprised (along with the members of the quartet, I suspect) that it has ended up where it has.
--- William Tilland, All Music Guide
Mujician
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Avant-Garde, Jazz-Pop, Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
The improvising quartet Mujician was formed in 1988. Mujician's members are Paul Dunmall (reeds), Tony Levin (percussion), Paul Rogers (bass), and Keith Tippett (piano). Dunmall was classically trained on clarinet. Levin (not the King Crimson member) studied drums and jazz from age 13 and became a professional at 17. Rogers is self-taught. Tippett has played with his 50-piece ensemble, Centipede, and was a studio member of King Crimson from 1970 through 1972. The group has performed at music festivals in England and Italy, and played with improvisers in Tbilisi, GA, in 1991. Mujician's first CD, The Journey, consisted of a single hour-long track recorded before a large festival audience. Their second release, Poem About the Hero, contains five improvisations from two to 30 minutes in length, recorded before a small, invited audience. Colours Fulfilled followed in 1998, their first studio recording. The group has remained active, but they're taking more time between issuing recordings. The collaborative Bristol Concert was recorded in 1991 (but not released until 2000), so the actual follow up to Colours Fulfilled (Spacetime) wasn't recorded until 2001. Five years later saw the release of There's No Going Back Now.
---Jim Dorsch, All Music Guide |
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