Friday, April 04, 2014

NEW RELEASES: JOHN COLTRANE - OFFERING: LIVE FROM TEMPLE UNIVERSITY; NILS PETTER MOLVAER - SWITCH; ALESSANDRO SCALA QUARTET - VIAGGIO STELLARE

JOHN COLTRANE - OFFERING: LIVE FROM TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

On September 23, John Coltrane's birthday, Impulse!/Resonance will release Offering: Live At Temple University—a November 11, 1966 performance by Coltrane that took place in Philadelphia less than a year before he died. It features Alice Coltrane on piano, Pharoah Sanders on reeds and flute, and Rashied Ali on drums, along with Sonny Johnson filling in for Jimmy Garrison on bass. Bootlegs of this concert have circulated in the past, but with inferior sound quality and only a portion of the show, according to the label. Offering includes the entire 90-minute performance remastered at 96kHz/24 bit. It'll be available as a double CD and double LP.  Songs performed include "Naima", "My Favorite Things", "Crescent", "Leo", and "Offering". It comes with a 24-page booklet featuring liner notes by Ashley Kahn, author of the Coltrane biography A Love Supreme. A portion of the sales will go to the John Coltrane Home, an organization that preserves Coltrane's former home in Dix Hills, New York. ~ pitchfork.com

NILS PETTER MOLVAER - SWITCH

The new album by the master of musical landscapes, Nils Petter Molvær, discovering the clarity of song-orientated structures and stretching the genre boundaries to new limits once again. Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer is one of Europe’s most successful and best selling jazz artists. He has his own individual sound, influenced by Scandinavian nature, electronic music and technology as well as by colleagues including Miles Davis and Jon Hassell. His musical journey takes the listener through a wide variety of styles, with varying degrees of abstraction along the way. Molvaer has performed with musicians such as Bill Laswell, Sidsel Endresen and Eivind Aarset, has surrounded himself with DJs and VJs, but his style and expression remain vivid and unique in every musical project he undertakes. ~ amazon.com

ALESSANDRO SCALA QUARTET - VIAGGIO STELLARE

The new album by Alessandro Scala connects itself to the fertile and alluring scene of contemporary Hard-Bop that is constantly proving its quality with solid results, especially in Italy.This work is a perfect balance of traditional  influences and contemporary inspirations, an intense and fruitful study that leads to a new, rich and articulate way of expression. Through his original compositions and the intense dialogue with trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso and trombonist Roberto Rossi, Alessandro consciously builds a sparse and sometimes lyrical language, enhanced by the rhythm section provided by Nico Menci, Paolo Ghetti and Stefano Paolini. The result is vivid and bright. Another valuable piece has been added our considerable Jazz history. ~ Paolo Fresu


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