TRIO 3 + JASON MORAN

Refraction – Breakin' Glass

Intakt CD 217 / 2013

 



Reggie Workman: Bass
Andrew Cyrille: Drums, Voice
Oliver Lake: Alto Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, Voice

Jason Moran: Piano

1. Refraction – Breakin' Glass (J. Moran, music / O. Lake, lyrics) 4 : 53
2. Cycle III (R. Workman) 5 : 49
3. Luthers Lament (O. Lake) 3 : 41
4. AM 2 1/2 (A. Cyrille) 6 : 38
5. Summit Conference (R. Workman) 10 : 53
6. All Decks (O. Lake) 4 : 55
7. Listen (A. Cyrille) 4 : 23
8. Vamp (O. Lake) 5 : 09
9. Foot Under Foot (J. Moran) 8 : 42
10. High Priest (A. Cyrille) 7 : 216


Oliver Lake: Talkin Stick Pub (SESAC), Reggie Workman: Sculptured Sounds
Pub (BMI), Andrew Cyrille: Major-A-Music Pub (ASCAP), Jason Moran: Jamo
Publishing (SESAC). Jason Moran appears courtesy of Blue Note Records.
Recorded July 24, 25, 2012 at Brooklyn Recording Studio, Brooklyn, by Andy Taub.
Mixed at Brooklyn Recording Studio. Mastered at Dave McNair Mastering, Monclair, NJ, February 2013.

Liner notes: Alexandre Pierrepont. Photos: John Rogers. Cover art: Oliver Lake.
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Produced by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt.
Intakt Records, P. O . Box 468, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland · intakt@intaktrec.ch
www.intaktrec.ch

 


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Oliver Lake, Reggie Workmann, Andrew Cyrille, die drei Schwergewichte des amerikanischen Jazz, erweitern ihr Trio 3 für die fünfte Platte auf Intakt Records mit dem Pianisten Jason Moran. Der 38-jährige Shooting Star des aktuellen Jazzpianos ist nach Irène Schweizer und Geri Allen somit der dritte Gastpianist im erweiterten Trio 3. Eine Woche spielten Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille und Jason Moran im Sommer 2012 im New Yorker Jazzclub Birdland, bevor sie im Brooklyn Recording Studio die CD "Refraction ­– Breakin' Glass» einspielten.
Die Aufnahmen führen ins Herz der Great Black Music und zelebrieren die immense musikalische Mannigfaltigkeit des heutigen Jazz, die grosse Kunst des Wechselspiels. Der Gast Jason Moran brilliert mit eigenen Kompositionen und präsentiert sich neben den drei Pionieren des modernen Jazz als ausdrucksstarken, technisch versierten und klugen Pianisten, der das Feuer des Jazz ins 21. Jahrhundert trägt.
Schon auf der letzten Platte "Celebrating Mary Lou Williams - Live at Birdland" (Intakt CD 187) spielte das Trio 3 + Geri Allen mit funkigen Passagen zur Höchstform auf. Jason Moran wirkt auf dere neuen Platte als Katalysator einer jungen Musik. Zu Morans Komposition "Refraction", dem Titelstück der Platte, rappt Oliver Lake sein Poem "Breackin' Glass". Spiel und Text tanzen, ähnlich wie beim gospel- und soul-orientierten Stück "High Priest", wo Andrew Cyrille eine Hommage an den Saxophonisten David S. Ware vorträgt und das Ganze zum rocken und swingen bringt.

 

Three 'heavy weights' of American jazz Oliver Lake, Reggie Workmann and Andrew Cyrille make up the band Trio 3. For their 5th album on Intakt Records they have added pianist Jason Moran to the line-up. The 38 year old 'rising star' on the current scene is after Irène Schweizer and Geri Allen the third guest piano player cooperating with Trio 3. In the summer of 2012 Lake, Workman, Cyrille invited Jason Moran for a week long residency in New York's Jazzclub 'Birdland', before they recorded the CD "Refraction – Breakin' Glass" in Brooklyn Recording Studio.
The recording leads straight into the centre of what is know as 'Great Black Music' and celebrates the enormous diversity which is jazz today. Jason Moran has contributed a few compositions and shines next to these 3 giants of modern jazz as an expressive and techniclly highly skilled and intelligent pianist, who is carrying the flame of jazz into the 21st century.
On the last album of Trio 3 they were collaborating with Geri Allen on a celebration of Mary Lou Williams (Intakt CD 187). You could hear some fantastic funky playing on that release, which can be find here as well. But Jason Moran seems to function also as a catalyst for a more modern approach. On Moran's composition "Refraction" Oliver Lake turns into a rapper by presenting his poem "Breackin' Glass" in a rhythmical style. The music and the words start to dance, which can also be heart on "High Priest", deeply rooted in Soul and Gospel. This composition by Andrew Cyrille is a homage to the saxophonist David S. Ware, who died last year, where the music rocks and swings in the most incredible way.

 

 

 

Trio 3 + Geri Allen. Celebrating Mary Lou Williams
Live At Birdland New York
Intakt CD 187

 

Trio 3 + Geri Allen. At This Time.
Intakt CD 162
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Trio 3 + Irène Schweizer. Berne Concert.
Intakt CD 150
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Trio 3 . Time Being.
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