Gisler - Zurich Concert - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A supergroup is what the German music magazine Jazzthetik callsPunkt. Vrt. Plastik. Kaja Draksler, Petter Eldh and Christian Lillingermake up this trio - InchTwo musicians and one musician who are amongthe most exciting and active that the European avant-garde has tooffer. Inch And Die Zeit writes InchThey reinterpret an entire genre at once the good old piano trio. Inch The trio convinces with a highly individualsound and a rarely heard clarity and precision, even where there isfree improvisation and where rhythm, melody and metrics dissolve. Now, a year after their celebrated album Somit, they present animpressive live statement that takes up the material from their eponymousfirst album and Somit and impressively demonstrates the liverealizations of studio ideas. InchIt is a stunning reminder that whateverelse it can be, music is a fundamentally communicative enterprise. Itis our great fortune that the microphones were up on this night so thatPunkt. Vrt. Plastik can again tell us what they saidInch, writes AlexanderHawkins in the liner notes. Album Tracks 1. Nuremberg Amok 2. Axon 3. Trboje 4. Vrvica I 5. Amnion 6. Body Decline - Natt Raum 7. Morgon Morfin 8. Vrvica II 9. Membran 10. Traces of Veins 11. Veins 12. Zug 13. Azan

Double vinyl LP pressing. As the final chapter in the initial run of Jazz Is Dead releases, Remixes JID010 continues the creative catharsis of an exhilarating new chapter in jazz music. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad tapped nine iconic creators to reimagine their personal favorites from Jazz Is Dead's catalogue to-date, who created striking new versions of songs by Marcos Valle, Roy Ayers, Gary Bartz, Azymuth, João Donato, Doug Carn, Brian Jackson and The Midnight Hour. Holding the line taut like a bass string, Younge & Muhammad only invited those special musical alchemists who have previously participated in Jazz Is Dead happenings, or those who are slated to share that stage soon Cut Chemist, DJ Spinna, Georgie Anne Muldrow, Akili, Shigeto, Pink Siiffu, Dibiase, Natureboy Flako, and Kaidi Tathum. It's a family affair. Album Tracks 1. Gotta Love Again (Kaidi Tatham Remix) 2. Soulful & Unique (Pink Siifu Remix) 3. Nancy Wilson (Shigeto Remix) 4. Quiet Storm (Akili Remix) 5. Soulsea (Cut Chemist Remix) 6. Windfall (Natureboy Flako Remix) 7. Jazz Is Dead (Georgia Anne Muldrow Geemix) 8. Desejo de Amor (Akili Remix) 9. Liaisons (Dibiase Remix) 10. Redor Do Samba (DJ Spinna Remix)

Of all the major Russian composers, Reinhold Gliere is one of the least well-known in the West. His life spanned a vast period from the Czar's reign to Soviet dictatorship, and he made it through the Stalin era relatively intact by mostly avoiding conflict without losing face. Such dilemmas were to haunt the lives of Gliere's pupil Prokofiev, and especially that of his colleague Shostakovich, 30 years younger, but they were not yet current in 1900, when 20 year old Gliere, still a student, injected all of his youthful verve into composing his String Octet in D Major Op. 5. The work soon gained immense popularity in Russia. Shostakovich's Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 let us look back upon the beginning of an outstanding musical carer that was overshadowed by harsh difficulties. These two pieces with the headings Prelude and Scherzo are from the period when Shostakovich was still a student. Reynaldo Hahn was a student of Maurice Ravel at Paris Conservatoire. He studied composition with several professors including Jules Massenet. He gained considerable renown with his song cycles, operettas, and ballets. His Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor is a rhapsodic work in the lineage of French Late Romanticism. Album Tracks 1. String Octet in D Major, Op. 5 2. Piano Quintet in F Sharp minor 3. Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11