Will Holshouser Trio + Bernardo Sassetti - Palace Ghosts And Drunken Hymns
ARTIST........: Will Holshouser Trio + Bernardo Sassetti
TITLE.........: Palace Ghosts And Drunken Hymns
LABEL.........: Clean Feed
URL...........: http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=295
GENRE.........: Jazz
QUALITY:......: 173 kbps avg/ 44100Hz / Joint Stereo
RIP DATE......: 2010-05-09
RELEASE DATE..: 2009-12-11
Tracklist:
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01. Danτa Palaciana 5:39
02. Dance Of The Dead 6:02
03. Narayama 4:29
04. East River Breeze 8:25
05. The Oldest Boat 5:48
06. Irreverente 6:17
07. Department Of Peace 6:45
08. Drunkard's Hymn 4:28
Total 47:53
Release Notes:
For those who think jazz is not a church or a credo demanding preservation and
controlled entries, it's a factor of curiosity the encounter between a chamber
jazz trio incorporating world musics like Middle Eastern and Central European
klezmer, Louisiana's cajun, Argentinian tango, French musette and Eastern
European gypsy songs and a jazz pianist who builds his concepts in the
continuity of the classical tradition and of contemporary music, also having a
cinematic perspective solidified by his many film soundtracks. That's what is
offered by the reunion of the idiosincratic Will Holshouser Trio (with it's two
previous acclaimed records on Clean Feed, "Reed Song" and "Singing to a Bee")
with the Portuguese pianist extraordinaire Bernardo Sassetti. For all effects,
it's the inner nature of jazz itself these four notable intrumentalists and
composers/improvisers honour with such an iniciative: we should remember that
the ôgreat African-American musicö is, from the beginning, the fruit of cultural
hybridizations. This partnership was possible only because all the musicians are
conscious that, in a global world, you need to think and act globally. With this
formula, the accordion turns really a Dada musical instrument û 80 years after
Tristan Tzara's manifesto. Holshauser's trio and Sassetti were finally able to
ôdestroy the conventional simbology and logicö, one of the objectives of that
art movement in the start of the 20th century. A former disciple of Anthony
Braxton (Holshouser), the musical director of Andrew Hill's later projects
(Horton), the heir of the most exquisite double bass lineage (Phillips) and the
voted Prince of Portuguese jazz (Sassetti) do it brilliantly in ôPalace Ghosts
and Drunken Hymnsö.
Enjoy it and support the band!