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| 1. | Everything Happens to Me
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| 2. | My Ideal
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| 3. | What is Thing Called Love?
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| 4. | So In Love
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| 5. | Loverman
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| 6. | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
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| 7. | Stardust
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| 8. | How Insensitive
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| 9. | You Must Believe in Spring
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Jazz / Modern Creative, Contemporary Jazz
Recorded: December 2002, The Warehouse
"very beautiful recording...we really must believe in Martin Speake".
Ken Cheetham, Jazz Views
" listen again and it soon begins to stand comparison with anyone, anywhere".
Phil Johnson, The Independent
"A very enjoyable album".
Lara Bellini, Jazz Review.com
"Iverson's powers are probably better revealed in these bare surroundings than they are in the Bad Plus".
John Fordham, The Guardian
Martin Speake, the British alto saxophonist, is often compared to Lee Konitz. Speake has his own distinctive sound but like Konitz he has an enthusiasm for putting himself in new contexts, exploring new ideas and working across musical styles. He has become a significant jazz presence.
Speake toured the UK with Ethan Iverson in 2002 when Ethan was musical director of the Mark Morris dance company in New York. As partners they are very well suited. He and Iverson share many qualities apart from their identical bald heads!
Both musicians have the ability to turn a tune in an unexpected direction and to startle the audience with surprising twists and turns which reveal a true eclectism of taste and ability. Ethan Iverson’s classical phrasing combined with virtuoso and often extremely powerful jazz technique mark him out as an unmistakeable presence. Combined with Martin Speake’s quirky and often understated interpretations of melody lines the duo create an interesting balance of styles which works well.
Martin Speake and Ethan Iverson finished off their 2002 UK tour with the recording of a new duo album MY IDEAL (SRCD 7-2).
Mastered by Ray Staff at Sony Music.
Produced by Iain Ballamy. Executive Producer Christine Allen.
Martin Speake met pianist Ethan Iverson at Banff Centre for the Arts in 1990 where they both studied for a month with Steve Coleman, Kenny Wheeler, Rufus Reid, Kevin Eubanks, Stanley Cowell and others. They did not see each other again for more than ten years. Martin wondered what had happened to Ethan and found he had become the musical director of the Mark Morris Dance Company. This company visited England in 2001 and they got a chance to renew their musical friendship by playing through a few interesting standards and originals.
They hit it off musically despite being very different in their approach and decided to tour together in December 2002. Martin is known for the diversity of his projects and his interests in many areas of jazz music. This is reflected in his quartet with guitarist Mike Outram, bass Tom Herbert and Drummer Tom Skinner, Exploring Standards with Tom Skinner and Mick Hutton, free improvisation duo with drummer Mark Sanders, a duo with guitarist Colin Oxley, The Unison Quartet and a trio with sitarist Dharambir Singh and Sarvar Sabri, both of which perform Indian and Arabic influenced music, and The International Quartet with drummer Paul Motian, pianist Bobo Stenson and bassist Mick Hutton. This latter project has recently recorded for the prestigious ECM label.
Martin Speake
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: 1958 in Barnet, London, England
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Modern Creative, Saxophone Jazz
Alto saxophonist Martin Speake was born in 1958 in Barnet, England, where his childhood found him surrounded by music. He was drawn initially to the rock and pop music of the day, but shortly after he left school at the age of 16, Speake purchased an alto saxophone after hearing an album by Ornette Coleman, and the course of his life as a jazz horn player became set. He studied classical saxophone at Southgate Technical College and Trinity College of Music from 1977 to 1981, after which he began gigging with other musicians, most notably the sax quartet Itchy Fingers, who toured extensively in America, South America, and Africa. Speake left Itchy Fingers in 1988 and began concentrating on his own projects, many of which were carried out under the auspices of the Martin Speake Group. He also worked as part of duos with Phil Lee, Nikki Iles, Dharambir Singh, and others, as well as participating in the Fever Pitch, Mind and Time, and Eternal Triangle ensembles. His many albums and projects include Tan T'ien (1996), Trust (1998), Journey (2004), and Change of Heart, released in 2006 on ECM Records.
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