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| 1. | Tethered Moon
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| 2. | Misterioso
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| 3. | Intermezzo / So in Love
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| 4. | First Meeting / Solar / Open Trio
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| 5. | P.S.
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Jazz / Post-Bop
Recorded: Oct 20, 1990-Mar 13, 1991
When pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, his longtime companion Gary Peacock on bass and drummer Paul Motion deal with the "Alabama Song" they are far from renewing it by using odd arrangements like a sophisticated reggae groove. In 1995 "Play Kurt Weill" made clear, that the trio is even far from conventional improvising on chord changes. What they achieve instead is a collective meditation, having a song in mind even when they don't seem to play it. Instead of playing the changes they create subtle timbres and moods.
This approach to get to the essentials in a daring, but relaxed way became obvious from the very beginning. Highlights of their "First Meeting" in 1991 are now released in the Artist Edition of Winter & Winter. It starts with "Tethered Moon", building up an enormous intensity for 19 minutes from simple motivs on the piano, insisting bass-ostinatos and the drummers pulse. Obstinately following their own paths the three declared individualists know how to use their enormous freedom to end up in what producer Stefan Winter calls a "strange unity".
Tethered Moon isn't based on the widening or replacing of chords that has become typical for the piano trio since Bill Evans. Compositions like "First Meeting" owe much of their lyrical strength to the renunciation of any seductive addition. The beauty of such reductions to the minimum can be easily heard on Monk's "Misterioso". Following this excursion to the basics
of blues and jazz the theme of "So In Love" arises out of the trio's free "intermezzo" - a total surprise of stunning musical consequence. Though Kikuchi's improvisations sometimes seem to be carved note by note against the contemplative flow of the music, they become part of it contributing to the bizarre beauty of these meditations, that develop far from all cliches.
Born in 1939 Masabumi "Poo" Kikuchi is regarded as a living legend in his native country Japan. Until today he released about 60 recordings, the majoritiy under his own name. Kikuchi has worked together with Terumaso Hino since 1968. He cooperated with jazz greats such as Elvin Jones, Gil Evans and Miles Davis (shortly before his comeback in the late seventies), experimented with computerized Electronic Music, played strange funk with his All Night All Right Off White Boogie Band and "slash jazz" with a young Japanese trio.
Gary Peacock took part in some of the most important recodings of the sixties working with Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry among many others. Since 1983 he is the bass player of Keith Jarretts Standards trio. Peacock has recorded the strongly Japanese influenced album "Ginka" together with Kikuchi 20 years before Tethered Moon was founded in 1991. The bass player, who like Scott LaFaro played a leading role in the emancipation of his instrument, studied eastern philosophy and medicine in Japan in the late sixties.
As far as drums are concerned, it was a consequent choice to work with Paul Motian who has always been more interested in soundscaping than timekeeping. Motian redefined the role of the drums in the Sixties. He played with the famous Bill Evans Trio featuring Scott LaFaro and later on cooperated with Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley. Both pianists have at least two things in common: a special liking for Motian's free flow playing - and for working together with a bass player called Gary Peacock.
In 1992 the trio's debut album "Tethered Moon" has been released as well as the second recording "Triangle" (both on Paddle Wheel). "Play Kurt Weill", their unique tribute to the German composer for Stefan Winter's JMT Productions, followed in 1995.
Tethered Moon
Masabumi Kikuchi - piano
Gary Peacock - bass
Paul Motian - drums |
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