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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Beirach Huebner Mraz
Title......: Round About Bartok
Rip Date...: Nov-25-2007 Cat.No.....: ACT9276-2
Style......: Jazz Label......: The ACT Company
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 86,5 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Pianist Richie Beirach and bassist George Mraz have long been
major creative forces in the jazz world, while
violinist Gregor Huebner has made a career straddling the worlds
of classical and jazz music. On Round About Bart≤k
the three master musicians collaborate with the intention of
transposing motifs from European classical and folk
compositions into the improvisatory language of jazz. Such a
project has its dangers. Ever since composer Gunther
Schuller began experimenting in the late 1950's with what became
known as "Third Stream" music by bringing
improvising jazz musicians into orchestral settings, classical and
jazz musicians have been attempting to integrate the
two musics with only occasional success. Round About Bart≤k may be
counted as one of those successes; the unique
concomitant sensibilities of Beirach, Huebner and Mraz make for a
creative process which transforms motifs from
Bart≤k, Scrijabin, Kodaly and Porumbescu, Russian and Romanian
folk songs, and a Richie Beirach original
composition into moving vehicles for the expression of the trio's
own passions and discoveries.
Richie Beirach was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, N.Y. His love for
classical music is reflected in his innovative chordal
vision which has often borrowed and then extended and amplified
20th century classical harmonic concepts. Richie
Beirach says he often feels like "Bart≤k's great nephew from New
York". Bart≤k spent years in the field studying
Hungarian folk music, which in turn influenced the Hungarian's
compositional direction; it's understandable that
Beirach has a like affinity for East European folk and classical
music. Beirach's work with saxophonist Dave Liebman
and guitarist John Abercrombie is legendary, as is his solo work,
and his playing style has influenced a generation of
pianists. Beirach sees classical music as being as big an
influence in jazz as the standards that came out of the
Broadway shows, Hollywood films, and Swing bands (influenced by
Afro-American and European traditions); "Mozart,
Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt - they all improvised during their
concerts", says Beirach, "but this ability to improvise in
classical music has been lost".
Gregor Huebner was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1967. He studied
classic violin at the music conservatory in
Vienna with Vienna Symphonic Concertmaster Florian Zweiauer and at
the Conservatory in Stuttgart with Gerhard
Voss, who was a member of the Melos Quartet. During this same
period he also studied jazz piano and composition.
He continued his studies at Manhattan School Of Music in New York
with Harold Danko and Ludmilla Uhlela.
Huebner is a member of the New York Metropolitan Museum's
Philharmonia Virtuosi string ensemble, along with
various jazz groups. Thus the melding of jazz and classic is an
integral part of Gregor Huebner's musical direction.
George Mraz was born in 1944 in Pisek, in what is now the Czech
Republic. He finished his classical contra-bass
studies at the conservatory in Prague in 1966, and moved to the
United States in 1968. A member of the Oscar
Peterson Trio, the Thad Jones Trio, the Tommy Flanagan Trio, and
other major groups, he soon became one of the
major bassists on the American jazz scene. He has worked regularly
with Richie Beirach since 1967. Their playing
reflects an intimate compatibility which flows from the depths of
shared times and talents.
There is a romantic mysticism to the trio's interpretation of
Alexander Scrijabin's Prelude op.16#4 , while Bela
Bartok's sombre, stately Bagatelle #4 is so transformed that light
swings and swirls around Bartok's dark edges. A
violin - piano duo rendition of the well known Russian folksong
Stenkarasin stays true to the song's simple beauty; the
foreboding angst of Bartok's Bagatelle #3 (enhanced by Beirach's
dense orchestral effects) is transmuted into a blazing
up-tempo version of the classic standard You And The Night And The
Music. The Romanian folk song Salcam de Vara
retains it s folk roots throughout, and Cipriam Porumbescu's
Ballada keeps its formal waltz feel until Beirach's solo
leaves no doubt that if it's in 3/4, it's a jazz waltz. The
Russian folk song features Mraz's virtuoso bass playing,
accompanied later by Beirach's intuitively intertwined rhythms and
melodies. Richie Beirach's composition Zal is an
example of inventive improvisation and the almost telepathic
interplay between Beirach and Mraz. The threatening
undertones of Zoltan Kodaly's Lento gain in intensity and tempo
with Beirach, Huebner, and Mraz in complete
communion with one another. The solemn folk song Cossack's
Farewell appropriately closes the CD.
Richie Beirach made this analogy by way of explaining the group's
improvisational concept; "When you enter a
house, you don't want to go into the bathroom or the kitchen
before you get to the living room". Beirach, Huebner,
and Mraz use the various motifs as a key with which to enter their
musical mansion; the rooms are often designed with
surprising angles and filled with exotic furnishings. There may be
a variety of foreign guests, but the house is theirs, it's
in order, and it's foundation is jazz.
p l a y l i s t
01 Around Scrijabin Prelude op. 16 09:32
02 Around Bart≤k Bagatelle #4 06:32
03 Around Stenkarasin 04:31
04 Around Bart≤k's World 06:07
05 Around Salcam de Vara 06:03
06 Around Porumbescu Balada 08:39
07 Around Dubrawuschka 05:49
08 Zal 06:16
09 Around Kodaly's World 07:41
10 Cossack's Farewell 07:07
68:17 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
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