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a r t i s t : Misha Mengelberg
t i t l e : Two Days in Chicago
d a t e : 1999
l a b e l : hatOLOGY
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Jan-2003
t r a c k s : 15
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 167,3 MB
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hatOLOGY 2-535
Misha Mengelberg
Two Days In Chicago
Misha Mengelberg came to Chicago for two days, made some music
with a host of local musicians and visiting Dutch players, and
went home. Which leaves us with...what? Memories, certainly,
but fortunately there's this stela left behind, these two CDs,
containing a timeless message that anyone with ears can hear,
now and in the future. Sounds that do not express, they
signify, they exist. ù Art Lange
(http://www.hathut.com)
If Thelonious Monk had been born 20 years later in Europe, he
may indeed have been Misha Mengelberg. No other player/
composer/improviser with the exception of Steve Lacy has been
able to so completely enter into the harmonic mindset of Monk
(and for that matter, the technical genius of his counterpart
Herbie Nichols). And as much as that would be enough for so
many on the scene today, it is a compliment the iconoclastic
Mr. Mengelberg would shun because it is only a part of what he
does. This glorious double CD represents literally the two days
Mengelberg spent in Chicago in 1998. One CD is a studio
session, the other a live date. Mengelberg wasted no time in
exploiting the many talents of his collaborators, who include
saxophonists Fred Anderson, Ken Vandermark and Ab Baars,
cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, bassists Kent Kessler and Wilbert de
Joode, and drummers Hamid Drake and Martin van Duyunhoven. The
first CD is a wildly mixed bag. First there is the Mengelberg
reading of Monk's "Eronel." With Vandermark and Drake as his
sidemen, without a bassist, Mengelberg has already changed the
model. With the hollow spot in the rhythm section apparent, he
just lets it stand, an element that needs not be filled because
of Vandermark's fine, swinging, soulful solo. Mengelberg
himself is dancing around with Drake, trading fours and comping
just persuasively enough to give Vandermark the nod for another
chorus or two. When he takes his own solo you can see why there
isn't a bassist: There's no room, with Drake claiming all the
space around the piano and Mengelberg alternating lines from
Nichols, Tatum, and Monk while slipping his own extended 12ths
(!) into a melodic interval framework that is just
breathtaking. The same is true of the other Monk contribution
here: "Off Minor." Here, it's all Mengelberg and his spooky,
shaded, diminished sevenths that hold the tune while Vandermark
blows under the authority of his piano. The various quartets
and trios that make up the remainder of disc one are truly
beautiful examples of what Mengelberg does as an improviser: He
sheds all preconceived notion of what music is supposed to be
when made on the spot and spontaneously composes with his
groups. There are shards of meaning in each phrase as these
groups eke out a syntax and structural conception for each
piece. Disc two, the live set, is perhaps even more remarkable.
It begins with the nearly 30-minute "Chicago Solo." Mengelberg
gives his audience a full-on look into his method, madness, and
mind as a musician. He creates no less than ten themes and
their variations, and moves them through strange configurations
of Puccini and Beethoven before Tristano and Teddy Wilson
appear as ghosts to carry them off. This flows seamlessly into
a gorgeous reading of "'Round Midnight," which flows seamlessly
into a duo, another solo, and finally a nearly seven-minute
version of "Body and Soul with a sextet that is notable not
only for the sensitivity of Mengelberg's adaption, but the
empathy he coaxes from his musicians and the depth of emotion
conveyed -- even as Baars arm- wrestles with his saxophone and
his own stormy relationship to such a beautiful standard. This
is easily one of Mengelberg's finest recorded moments and shows
him in all of his roles, shining with rough- hewn elegance and
finely crafted edges.
(http://www.allmusic.com)
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CD1
01-Eronel [04:35]
02-Chicago Trio 1 [05:10]
03-Chicago Trio 2 [05:08]
04-Chicago Trio 3 [05:01]
05-Off Minor [05:10]
06-Chicago Quartet 1 [12:31]
07-Chicago Quartet 2 [14:34]
08-Chicago Trio 4 [05:13]
09-Chicago Quartet 3 [05:52]
10-Chicago Quartet 4 [04:51]
CD2
01-Chicago Solo [27:09]
02-'Round Midnight [03:00]
03-Chicago Duo [12:18]
04-Rollo 2 [04:17]
05-Body And Soul [06:57]
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