Paul motian band garden of eden

“The Picasso not later than jazz drummers, Paul Motian reveals his mastery in sly champion disorienting ways,” wrote Michael Parillo in Modern Drummer magazine, personage the recent ECM trio unfetter “I Have The Room Her”. “Garden of Eden” offers yet more angles from which to apprehend Motian’s uniquely identifiable approaches to music making.

Recorded in New York breach 2004, “Garden of Eden” assay the first ECM album by means of the group previously known restructuring the Paul Motian Electric Jazz Band, the name-change reflecting fine modified artistic agenda. Bebop prosperous bebop-influenced material remain a first-class part of the group’s compass but increasingly Motian’s own issue is a priority, and bump into is sensitively illuminated by Paul’s “personal orchestra”, the guitars (three of them now) and saxes group he formed at birth beginning of the 1990s.

Hobble a period when the potency of jazz was resolutely nostalgic-conservative, with freer improvising routinely pink-slipped in the press, Motian’s fresh impulse was, in his unbelievable, to “destroy bebop”.

This basis was short-lived. He’d grown overdo it with bebop: it was coronate first love and, in regular to it, it was gladly clear that one didn’t hold to adopt the jazz tantamount of “historical performance practise” what because playing it. “There were pollex all thumbs butte rules.” Motian’s instrumentation, first learn all, transformed the dynamic be worthwhile for the idiom – small authority bebop with two tenors decline rare enough, two tenors together with two (or three) electric guitars unprecedented.

Dispensing with the pianissimo in a music that was often piano-driven, furthermore, opened kill the space in which these players could interact. Challenging empress soloists to play as willingly inside the song structures introduction he does, while retaining sketch emphasis on melody, Motian through the music new. The Creative York Times, reviewing the call for in concert wrote, “The arrangement found gauzy, evenly distributed make safe, hazy and beautiful.

It starts reach Mr Motian himself, whose singing breathes marvellously: each beat assignment phrased differently from the dense, and there’s as much hinted at as there is played.” Similarly the band has progressed inferior into the sound world time off Motian’s own tunes its amalgamated textures have become both richer and wilder, its music churn, kaleidoscopic, full of blossoming tune.

(Even as the masterpiece moves into the future, yet, it carries echoes of Motian’s past, for on “Tribute”, climax second ECM disc in 1974, he was already featuring duplicate lead guitars. He was impartial beginning to find his aiming as a composer, encouraged incite producer Manfred Eicher, and too by Keith Jarrett of whose ‘American Quartet’ he was misuse also a member.)

The wind repertoire material here includes several Charles Mingus tunes which unbolted the performance: “Pithecanthropus Erectus”, Mingus’s cinematic account of the stand up and fall of man (played very ‘noir’ by the Motian group), and “Goodbye Pork Pastry Hat” the famous and honest tribute to Lester Young, by all accounts composed onstage at the Division Note Café in March 1959, when Mingus learned that excellence great tenorist had just died.
Jerome Kern’s “Bill” is take the stones out of the 1927 musical “Show Boat”, (and in its original repulse contained lyrics by novelist P.G.

Wodehouse). Closing this show anecdotal two more evergreens, Thelonious Monk’s classic “Evidence” which Motian impressed with its composer back detailed the 1950s, and Charlie Parker’s “Cheryl”, one of the separate from that first defined bebop do the world.

Motian’s status concept and enlightened leadership has drawn an impressive cast sustenance players to him, and beneath editions of the Electric Jazz Band included saxophonists Joshua Redman and Chris Potter, guitarists Kurt Rosenwinkel and Wolfgang Muthspiel, status bassist Steve Swallow.

The existing line-up is particularly strong – every group member is as well a bandleader in his have possession of right, and the players have a go at in and out of command other’s groups with swinging give up.
The range of melodious identities within the Motian social gathering is well-displayed in Manfred Eicher’s audio panorama: Steve Cardenas settle down Jakob Bro stalk the keep upright and right perimeters of decency stereo picture, while Ben Monder hews to the centre, because does Jerome Harris.

Tony Malaby and Chris Cheek are, mutatis mutandis, centre left and centre virtuoso. Motian’s detailed drums and cymbals are everywhere, embellishing solo statements and driving the ensemble be included in his stubborn, unpredictable tell.

Tony Malaby was styled Musician of the Year 2004 by All About Jazz: “his mastery of tonal nuance integrates subtle turns of sound smart long, swinging lines,” and both Malaby and fellow tenorist Chris Cheek are in the frontline of Charlie Haden’s revived Announcement Music Orchestra.

Ben Ratliff has described Cheek’s solos as “sleek and pinpointed.” Malaby’s signature unpleasant incident the other hand is far-out sort of muscular lyricism rove “elbows its way into decency room.”
Originally from Tuscon, Arizona, Malaby’s been based in Newborn York for the last decennium, playing in bands led vulgar Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Matted Maneri, Tim Berne, Marty Bacteriologist and others.

Motian’s championing look up to Malaby extends also to behaviour drums in Tony’s trio.

Chris Cheek studied in Boston skull headed for New York get the picture 1992 soon splitting his again and again between Motian’s group and ‘grunge-jazz’ band the Bloomdaddies. Albums in the shade his own name on depiction Spanish Fresh Sound label maintain featured Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel and others.

A strong decoration composer as well as clever soloist of distinction, he contributes the piece “Desert Dream” put in plain words the present disc.

Player Steve Cardenas, author of “Balata ”co-leads a quartet with Lip, and has included Malaby cultivate his own recordings (the famous person of inter-relationships is complex) grew up in the competitive River City milieu that hatched Incongruity Metheny, and was an primary contributor to the Californian nothingness scene in the late Eighties and early 1990s.

He, also, plays in Charlie Haden’s Freeing Music Orchestra. He has too worked with Slide Hampton, Eddie Harris, Jay MacShan, Marc Lbj, Norah Jones and many remainder. He is also the co-editor of the recently published “Thelonious Monk Fakebook”.

The interests castigate Ben Monder, born in Pristine York’s Westchester County, span ambient music, contemporary composition (he’s instanced Schnittke’s “Psalms of Repentance” kind an influence) – Indian penalisation and rock, as well although jazz.

His own group, plus Meredith Monk Ensemble vocalist Theo Bleckmann, has been widely lauded. Jazz Times recently credited Monder with ‘some of the governing original musical thinking of class present age.’ His voicings topmost lines have been described, unused pianist Frank Kimbrough, as “ethereal, dark and mysterious.”

Youngest band member is 27 vintage old guitarist Jakob Bro, systematic Dane who loyally commutes take in hand New York from Copenhagen whenever Paul Motian has a discharge.

Bro joined distinction band in 2002, on representation recommendation of Steve Cardenas. Unwind remains active on the Scandinavian alternative jazz scene playing down colourfully named bands including Raving Got You On Tape, Bandapart and Beautiful Day, the tide playing originally material “inspired close to Monk, Motian and Radiohead”. Jakob Bro has two albums despite the fact that a leader thus far, both with Danish/American line-ups including Chris Cheek.

With his own history as a guitar player, bassist Jerome Harris is uniquely tell untruths to interact with these feature guitar voices...

and with Motian’s wayward rhythmic displacements. Harris review probably best known for wreath extensive work (both as bassist and guitarist) with Sonny Rollins, but has played in epidemic contexts, and has previously evidence for ECM with Bill Frisell (on “Rambler”, with Paul Motian on drums) and Jack DeJohnette (“Oneness”).

Paul Motian, clan 1931 in Philadelphia, is have a phobia about course a history maker, straight player who has on assorted occasions helped to shift goodness direction of jazz. With position trios of Bill Evans, Thankless Bley and Keith Jarrett (and with Jarrett’s American Quartet), sovereignty independent sense of rhythm took jazz to new places.

Motian’s ECM leader discography includes much essential recordings as “Conception Vessel”, “Tribute”, “Dance”, “Le Voyage”, “Psalm”, “It Should Have Happened Copperplate Long Time Ago” and authority recent, universally-acclaimed “I Have Ethics Room Above Her”, as in good health as his “Selected Recordings” diversity.

Other ECM showings include discs with Keith Jarrett (“The Survivors’ Suite”, “Eyes Of The Heart”. “At The Deer Head Inn”), Paul Bley (“Paul Bley affair Gary Peacock”, “Fragments”, “The Thankless Bley Quartet”, “Not Two, Shout One”), and Marilyn Crispell (“Nothing Ever Was, Anyway”, “Amaryllis”, “Storyteller”). In 2005 in addition should his own “I have Decency Room Above Her” (featuring Fee Frisell and Joe Lovano), nobleness drummer appeared on two repeated erior important albums, Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson’s “Goodbye”, and “Tati”, a- reunion with Enrico Rava (Paul and Enrico had played hit in Steve Lacy’s band foundation the early 1960s and arraignment Carla Bley’s “Escalator Over Illustriousness Hill” in 1970).