"A Quiet World", the closing track on Vossabrygg, reminds me of In A Silent Way, which to me foreshadowed Bitches Brew. It also showcases the best musical element of this recording: the fine, fine trumpet work of Palle Mikkelborg. Rypdal and Mikkelborg trade ideas throughout, but it is here that the trumpeter pays tribute both to Miles and Rypdal's collective idea. Fantastic stuff.
Maybe Terje Rypdal isn't a jazz household name. Maybe he should be. Here, a musician puts a hero in the spotlight and comes back with something completely new and fresh. Nothing good to listen to out there anymore? Sorry, this record disproves that statement. Easily.
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky).
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Article comments
1 - Mary K. Williams
I'm thinking that Sir Saleski ought to open his own music shop/bar/library. A place where somone can come and hear all this great shit he's been describing. Failing that, then certainly, certainly - his own podcast.
Hmm, I like that idea.
2 - Mark Saleski
maker of trouble, you are.
3 - Michael J. West
Oooh, I'm drooling at the thought of such a CD.
4 - DJRadiohead
Couple things... first, well-written piece.
Second, it is so easy and so lazy to bag today's musical output and bitch about there being nothing worthwhile. I'll concede some years are stronger than others but there is good music being made today (this from a guy who most wants to buy a Muddy Waters Chess Collection and Springsteen's Hammersmith Odeon '75 show). There is good music being made today and to deny that is just lazy.
And I think the rabble being roused by Mary makes sense. You do need to consider doing your own show to talk about and play all these things that have been the subject of your Friday Morning Listens and other reviews.
5 - Mary K. Williams
maker of trouble, you are.
Cute. But could you sustain that Yoda voice and style in your podcast?
6 - Mark Saleski
woa...it never occured to me that that would sound like yoda.
oops.
7 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
sweet melinda's teeth, i wanna be hearin this madness! i'm in very much of the position you refer to way up yonder, sir saleski, the ol' loada theory an thought goin on, but not a terrible lot a music listened to, beyond King Miles an some Coltrane, long the lines o' Giant Steps an Blue Train (which i prefer to most anythin else jazz-esque i've heard, even though i got more heart-space reserved for miles an his demented funk-outs). i still dunno how much of it i actually LIKE, aside from the Bitches Brew an the Agharta an the Blue Train an the like. but t'is all sortsa wondrous, the finding out of these things. an so aye, marvellous review, i need to be hearin this.
8 - Michael J. West
I just got this album five minutes ago. Here's a question: what's up with the recent trend of fusion revival? wouldn't you have thought fusion would be the last style of jazz to have a renaissance?
9 - Mark Saleski
yea, you might think that. hell, i certainly would! but...some of what's been coming out that we can refer to as 'fusion' (and here i'm thinking specifically of releases from labels like Thirsty Ear) are fusing different elements. they're far less rock and chops-oriented that the original "f-word".
10 - DJRadiohead
I meant to comment on something else... I just re-read this and remembered. I can identify with sort of that 'academic' awareness of an artist or genre that happens before being actually musically aware. That has been my blues experience. I read about it and knew a bit about it before I ever started listening to it.
11 - Michael J. West
Actually, now that you mention it, Mark, Thirsty Ear is doing the best/most consistent job of any label out there of finding the elusive, but long-sought, jazz/hip-hop fusion...