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| 1. | Alabama Song
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| 2. | Barbara Song
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| 3. | Moritat
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| 4. | September Song
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| 5. | It Never Was You
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| 6. | Trouble Man
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| 7. | Speak Low
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| 8. | Bilbao Song
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| 9. | My Ship
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Jazz / Post-Bop
Recorded: Dec 1994
There seems to be something very special about the compositions of German allround-genius Kurt Weill: although he died already 45 years ago, his songs still inspire contemporary interpretations in the fields of rock, jazz as well as in classical music. Weill himself always refused to acknowledge the difference between 'serious' and 'light' music. "There is only good and bad music", he once told an interviewer. The compositions of Kurt Weill - who was one of the most prominent figures of Berlin's avantgarde-scene of the 1920s - manages to touch the center of musicality by providing his listeners with a unique emotional experience. Successfully blending classical opera with dissonant jazz and folk music, Weill flowed freely and from one musical form to another. Weill, who as a jewish composer had to flee Nazi-Germany in 1933, was a truly universal artist "who could with equal justice be claimed by Germany as German, France as a Frenchman, by America as an American...". (Langston Hughes)
Consisting of Gary Peacock, Paul Motian and Masabumi Kikuchi, Tethered Moon features three of the most charismatic musical personalities of the current jazz-scene in a high-class acoustic trio which manages to make Weill's popular melodies sound thrillingly contemporate.
Japanese composer/keyboardist Masabumi "Poo" Kikuchi is one of the most prolific and acclaimed jazz pianists of the last few decades. His discography of some forty records includes collaborations with jazz greats like Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton, Elvin Jones and Sonny Rollins. Besides his "Jazz"-work, Kikuchi began to explore new ways of computerized Electronic Music during the 80s. Downbeat acclaimed Kikuchi's work: "If you're looking for vision and invention, Kikuchi is your man"
Gary Peacock is without doubt one of the most regarded acoustic bass players of jazz music. A whole generation of instrumentalists built on the 1960s innovations of Peacock and Scott LaFaro. Peacock's celebrated collaborations with piano-players like Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea are an important part of the jazz history of the last decades.
Like Peacock, Paul Motian started to redefine the traditional role of his instrument in the early 1960s. His musical biography exhibits experiences in groups which should become a most important part of jazz history: the legendary Bill Evans Trio, the trio and later quartet with Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden and Dewey Redman and the still existing Paul Motian Trio with Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano. Motian's piano trios are a most important part of his work and include cooperations with Geri Allen, Paul Bley and Marilyn Crispell.
The result of Tethered Moon's recording debut is acoustic trio jazz on the highest musical level. Certainly Play Kurt Weill became much more than just another standard jazz-hommage. Tethered Moon explores new, sometimes remote and so far unheard sides of Weill's compositions. The trio's approach is 'free' in the most productive sense of the word. The interpretations of Weill-classics like Alabama Song, September Song and Speak Low generate a mood of touching intensity that mediates the trio's deep respect for some of Weill's most popular compositions. The music on Play Kurt Weill emanates the image of a conversation with a very familiar friend. The music of Tethered Moon posesses a very rare kind of meditative power that makes the listener almost inevitably emotionally drawn into it.
- Original Press Text written in 1995
Tethered Moon
Masabumi Kikuchi - piano
Gary Peacock - bass
Paul Motian - drums |
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