Year: 2008
Record Label: Pirouet
Style: Straight-Ahead / Classic
Review: Pianist Marc Copland’s second volume of the New York Trio Recordings series features an estimable rhythm section that doesn’t warrant any elaboration here. The only change on this follow-up effort is that Paul Motian replaces Bill Stewart who appeared on Volume One, titled Modinha. Nonetheless, this rather artsy piano trio jaunt is most assuredly a democratic engagement, where the respective performers enjoy a level playing field.
The band sports a feathery sound on the opener “Vignette,” where Copland simply glides across his piano keyboard amid bassist Gary Peacock’s supple lines. They also swing gallantly via a frothy group-based gait. Then on “River’s Run,” the pianist renders a catchy yet somewhat haunting melody within a shifting theme. Sure enough, and as one would anticipate, the musicians fuse their enviable techniques into an eloquent program that transmits a sense of compositional evolvement.
They morph Miles Davis’ “All Blues,” into an interesting harmonic opus and up-tempo jazz waltz, as contrasts abound throughout. And Copland’s Bill Evans influence shines glisteningly during the whispery soundscapes heard on his piece titled “At Night.” No dount about it, the musicians’ commanding presence and singular styles coalesce for a set that generates a quiet storm. And the players include the appropriate quotient of dynamics with a regenerating current that offers an abundance of persuasive musical notions. (Recommended…)
Record Label Website: http://www.pirouetrecords.com
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Reviewed by:
Glenn Astarita
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