VA - Birth of a City (2019)

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VA - Birth of a City (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 238 MB | Cover | 52:05 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 120 MB
Classical | Label: Big Round Records

Even though the tracks on BIRTH OF A CITY are loosely grouped by their titles, the recording is very much a concept album. Haney, himself an accomplished pianist who also studied composition, scored the pieces for a kind of string quartet (violin - viola - cello - double bass), interspersed by varying quantities of brass instruments and percussion. Naturally, as one would expect from this kind of music, all works are scored with exactitude – for the most part, that is. Remarkably, Haney grants the performers a great amount of improvisatory freedom – indubitably owing to his own background in jazz, the genre which definitely and definitively shines through in all his compositions.

It is for this great freedom that all tracks – not only the eponymous Birth of a City, but also the Variations on a Theme as well as Improvisations on a Theme – come across as very dynamic, organic, free-spirited, occasionally even chaotic, all contributing to the impression that this is not a sterile recording of painstakingly thought-out music, but very much a living organism of several musicians' joint forces. And it is this liveliness that rouses interest and exudes the particular charm familiar to jazz audiences.

Haney's benevolence towards his performers pays off a hundredfold. BIRTH OF A CITY is a testament to how musical thought can take and even shift shape in the hands of an ensemble, if only it is given the right amount of freedom.

TRACKLIST

1. Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs;Bernard Purdie - Birth of a City, Pt. 1
2. Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Bernard Purdie - Birth of a City, Pt. 2
3. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs;Bernard Purdie - Birth of a City, Pt. 3
4. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs;Bernard Purdie - Birth of a City, Pt. 4
5. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs;Bernard Purdie - Birth of a City, Pt. 5
6. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs - Birth of a City, Pt. 6
7. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs;Bernard Purdie - Birth of a City, Pt. 7
8. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs;Bernard Purdie - Birth of a City, Pt. 8
9. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Bernard Purdie - Variations on a Theme, Pt. 1
10. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs;Bernard Purdie - Variations on a Theme, Pt. 2
11. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs - Variations on a Theme, Pt. 3
12. Jason Kao Hwang;Melanie Dyer;Adam Lane;Tomas Ulrich;Julian Priester;Steve Swell;Dav Storrs - Variations on a Theme, Pt. 4
13. Julian Priester;Steve Swell - Variations on a Theme, Pt. 5

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