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Artist.......: Miroslav vitous
Album........: Universal syncopations
Genre........: Jazz
Language.....: English
Label........: n/a
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source......: CDDA
playtime....: 54:10 min
rip.date....: Mar-04-2007
str.date....: 000-00-2003
encoder.....: LAME v.3.90.3 Modi
size........: 77,10 MB
quality.....: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-S
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I N F O
On his first jazz date as a leader since 1992,
Czechoslovakian bassist and composer Miroslav Vitous
comes out of the gate with a host of heavyweights on
one of the more lyrically swinging dates in modern
jazz. Vitous' engaged, pulsing, and deeply woody
tone is featured in the company of John McLaughlin,
Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, and Jack DeJohnette.
While the crystalline sound of Manfred Eicher's ECM
is everywhere here, as is the open-ended speculative
jazz that the label is renowned -- and ridiculed for
-- Vitous offers some startlingly beautiful twists
and turns with his ensemble. Vitous, who has been
through every music, from jazz-rock fusion as a
founding member of Weather Report to being a
classical composer, decided to revisit the skeletal
remains of his very first session for the label in
1969. Produced by Herbie Mann the disc was, from a
musical standpoint, a contentious, utterly brilliant
marriage of ideas both old and new. Bandmembers
DeJohnette and McLaughlin were present on those
sides as well. Universal Syncopations is by turns a
return to not the old forms, but rather to the
manner of illustrating harmonic concepts in a
quintet setting that allows for a maximum space
between ensemble players while turning notions of
swing, counterpoint, and rhythmic invention on their
heads. From the wooly, expressionistic "Tramp
Blues," with Vitous vamping around the changes, to
the wide-open legato guitar phrasing of McLauglin
against the double time in Vitous' bass on
"Univoyage," to the simmering undulations of
Garbarek's saxophones on top of Corea's intricate
melodies and right-hand runs on "Brazilan Waves,"
all of it propelled, not anchored, by the leader's
rich tone and accented and punctuated by Garbarek's
tight, loping saxophone lines. This is one of those
recordings that feels familiar in tone, but is
timeless in concept and execution. Universal
Syncopations is one of the most gorgeous sounding
and toughly played dates of the calendar year.
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T R A C K S
track title time
01. Bamboo Forest 04:38
02. Univoyage 10:54
03. Tramp Blues 05:19
04. Faith Run 04:58
05. Sun Flower 07:22
06. Miro Bop 04:03
07. Beethoven 07:19
08. Medium 05:10
09. Brazil Waves 04:27
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