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| Virtue |
| Eldar |
| első megjelenés éve: 2009 |
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| (2009)
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| 8.481 Ft
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| 1. | Exposition
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| 2. | Insensitive
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| 3. | Blues Sketch in Clave
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| 4. | Iris
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| 5. | The Exorcist
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| 6. | Lullaby Fantazia
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| 7. | Blackjack
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| 8. | Long Passage
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| 9. | Estate
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| 10. | Daily Living
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| 11. | Vanilla Sky
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Jazz
Eldar Djangirov - Keyboards, Piano, Producer
Alex Miller - General Manager
Armando Gola - Bass
David Lai - Producer
Federico Ruiz - Design Assistant
Felipe Lamoglia - Guest Appearance, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Fernando Lodeiro - Assistant Engineer
Isaiah Abolin - Mixing
Jay Newland - Engineer
Jennifer Liebeskind - Product Development
Joshua Redman - Guest Appearance, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Kirk Yano - Engineer, Executive Producer
Laura Kszan - Product Development
Ludwig Afonso - Drums
Mark Wilder - Mastering
Nicholas Payton - Guest Appearance, Trumpet
Roxanne Slimak - Art Direction
VIRTUE, the new recording from jazz keyboard virtuoso Eldar affirms his position at the forefront of contemporary jazz and is a fitting follow-up to his 2008 Grammy-nominated album, re-imagination. VIRTUE features guest appearances by trumpeter Nicholas Payton and saxophonists Joshua Redman and Felipe Lamoglia.
Eldar Djangirov continues hell-bent on dazzling audiences with his impressive technique, speed-demon array of notes, and music that is displaying more of a jagged edge and abject angular inventions. The staggeringly pronounced music he is making takes a different turn on Virtue, utilizing horns and synthesizers, but it's mostly his kamikaze acoustic piano -- frequently turning on a dime -- that is the centerpiece. Djangirov receives help from Joshua Redman, who plays tenor and soprano sax on selected cuts; trumpeter Nicholas Payton; and, on occasion, tenor saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia. Rarely displaying reserve, Djangirov is fully gassed up and ready to wail on these pieces that require acute listening skills to hear everything being dished out, but for him must seem naturally supercharged. Those impressed with pyrotechnics will likely be blown away by tracks like the busy horn-driven road song on cobblestones "Expositions"; the powerhouse piece "The Exorcist," with astounding invention and a bit of synth flavoring; and the jumpy, superball-in-a-squash court "Blackjack" (featuring Payton). Funky rock beats dominate the youth-oriented "Blues Sketch in Clave," while "Vanilla Sky" is another craggy, loose-cannon tune in odd meters fused by Redman's soprano. Slightly throttled, "Lullaby Fantazia" is a lithe and soulful 4/4 track with a 5/4 modal insert that is more organic and breathing than steaming along. "Daily Living" takes into account the elfin flourishes of Chick Corea, while also adopting staggered phrasings, electric keyboards, and a sound that can strike a kinship with peers like Robert Glasper and Aaron Parks. Some trio-only tracks with electric bass guitarist Armando Gola and drummer Ludwig Alfonso -- including the pretty, cascading "Insensitive," the actual introspective and delicate "Iris," and the real ballad take of the classic "Estate" -- all show that Djangirov can ramp down the thunder and lightning into low-watt, sustainable, impressionistic motifs. While not all bombast -- and the high drama has its valid virtuosity -- the variations are either black or white, with no interest in the middle ground or a larger color palette. This is Eldar's eighth CD, at age 22 still a very young and maturing musician who has a lot to offer and gives it all up in one fell swoop. Strap in for the ride. ~ Michael G. Nastos, 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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