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| Supplier : Brotherhood Of Satan Release Date : 10/16/2004 |
| Ripper : Brotherhood Of Satan Record Label : ECM |
| Genre : Jazz Quality : VBR/APS/44,1kHz |
| Tracks : 11 Tracks Channels : Joint Stereo |
| Year : 2004 Size : 100 MB |
| Language : English Rating : 80% of 100% |
_| Grabber : EAC v0.95 Prebeta 5 Encoder : LAME v3.90.3 |_
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SC's release cuts at 16kHz + our release has higher average bitrate.
The John Abercrombie Quartet's Cat 'n' Mouse, issued in 2002,
showcased a band that was on the verge of something that approached
greatness. Abercrombie, violinist Mark Feldman, drummer Joey Baron,
and bassist Marc Johnson gelled together inside the framework of the
guitarist's increasingly open-ended compositions and became a unit
that could articulate the most subtle of sonorities and intricate
harmonic architectures. But they also revealed that they were entering
the zone where they could actually stretch time and space. On Class
Trip, the bandmembers come together fully and build on that concept
with such beauty and grace that they sound as if they've been playing
together all their lives. The sheer subtle intuition that guides these
proceedings is breathtaking, whether they are weaving through one
another on "Cat Walk," which is alternately full of shimmering yet
knotty harmonics with Abercrombie's chord voicings offering a
dimensional extension of Feldman's lines in counterpoint, finding a
common singing voice where time signatures seemingly disappear, as on
"Risky Business," or messing about with Bart≤k's "Soldier's Song" and
turning its melodic line back on itself in an inverse scalar schemata.
This band is concerned only with the articulation and expression of a
musicality that lies not in the obviousness of its contributors'
considerable musical gifts as jazz improvisers, but in the sheer
nuanced elegance of an ensemble whose blurring of traditions under the
rubric of improvisation makes the group not only compelling but
brilliant. Abercrombie's compositions for this band are the most
adventurous and graceful of his long career; as a unit, the quartet is
a band without peers that plays a music whose challenge is only
eclipsed by its accessibility and singular language.
http://www.johnabercrombie.com/
Tracks:
01. Dansir (9:31)
02. Risky Business (7:38)
03. Descending Grace (8:56)
04. Illinoise (5:35)
05. Cat Walk (7:55)
06. Excuse My Shoes (8:28)
07. Swirls (6:06)
08. Jack And Betty (3:39)
09. Class Trip (7:29)
10. Soldier's Song (3:02)
11. Epilogue (3:37)
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