[TR24][OF] Patrick Zimmerli Quartet - Clockworks - 2018 (Modern Creative)

Patrick Zimmerli Quartet - Clockworks Формат записи/Источник записи: [TR24][OF] Наличие водяных знаков: Нет Год издания/переиздания диска: 2018 Жанр: Modern Creative Издатель (лейбл): Songlines Продолжительность: 53:52 Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: Только обложка альбома Треклист: 01. A Scattering Of Stars (Distension Variation) (0:41) 02. Pendulum (6:21) 03. Metric Variation (3:39) 04. Waltz Of The Polyrhythmic Palindrome (6:54) 05. Linear Variation (6:42) 06. The Center Of The Clock (6:29) 07. Entropic Variation (0:39) 08. Boogaloo Of The Polyrhythmic Palindrome (7:14) 09. Harmonic Variation (3:44) 10. Windup (6:37) 11. A Scattering Of Stars (Theme) (4:52) Musicians: Patrick Zimmerli - tenor saxophone Ethan Iverson - piano Christopher Tordini - bass John Hollenbeck - drums     Несколько слов на английском New York and Paris-based composer-saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli has pursued overlapping careers in jazz and classical music for over two decades. His career as a composer of classical as well as classical/jazz hybrid music has gained him worldwide recognition. Since 2011 he has undertaken several recording projects with Nonesuch, composing or arranging music for Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Luciana Souza, and others, including a concerto for Redman and strings to be released this year. "Clockworks" combines the considered precision and overarching formal construction typical of classical music with the flair, sound, energy and performative ethos of jazz. It is the latest product of Zimmerli’s unique “third stream” path and it offers today’s jazz composers much food for thought. On a more basic level Zimmerli aims to take listeners on a varied and satisfying emotional journey, one filled with optimism and uncommon beauty. Completing a 25-year compositional arc, saxophonist-composer Patrick Zimmerli releases his new jazz suite Clockworks following the release in 2016 of his first quartet’s 1992 recording Shores Against Silence (with Kevin Hays, Larry Grenadier and Tom Rainey). Both records feature rhythmically and melodically advanced composition largely inspired by Zimmerli’s love of serial composers such as Babbitt, Carter, Stockhausen and Boulez, though still grounded in a jazz ethos. Both explore a different third stream direction in jazz that Zimmerli made his own right from the start, and that for all its complexities compels attention first and foremost as music to be listened to. The very structure of Clockworks is a reflection and summary of Zimmerli’s artistic path, an attempt to unveil the process whereby music can retain its message even as its technical means become simplified. Compared to Shores his style has modulated into something that a broader swath of the listening public could relate to, and the new release integrates the earlier ideas into the later style. “My main concern back then was in forging a new path that had a foundation in the jazz tradition but that was completely original. Newness is less of a priority as I grow older than simply taking listeners on a varied and satisfying emotional journey.” Then and now he considers his ultimate musical message to be optimistic and positive: “That might be the biggest thing that sets my music off from ‘mainstream’ avant-garde jazz.” Clockworks was written specifically for Iverson and Hollenbeck, who were already performing with Zimmerli in the early 90s. In fact, the impetus for composing the suite goes back to a decades-long argument he and Iverson have had about his music: “I think Ethan has always seen me as representing a kind of moralistic absolute in jazz, and he was a fervid admirer of my early style (heard at its most highly developed on Explosion (1995) and Expansion (2000) as well as on Twelve Sacred Dances (1995), a quartet which included both Ethan and John). When I started writing music that was simpler and more understandable to the layperson, Ethan was one of the very few who objected. He seemed to feel that I had watered down my style or somehow sold out. But from my perspective, my classical/pop inflected music (Phoenix, 2005) was not about watering anything down, but rather using a different set of tools to convey essentially the same message.” About his musical collaborators Zimmerli says, “This whole project can be seen as a testament to what an amazingly good sport Ethan is. He understands and accepts me with all my offbeat artistic sense of humor. Proof can be found all over the album, where he takes the extravagant forms I’ve concocted for him and plays over them in a style that fits them hand in glove. His improvisations are effectively internal compositions in themselves, full of wit and charm and purpose. My favourite example of this is the absolutely loving treatment he gives to “Harmonic Variation”, where he plays that gorgeous opening chorus before playing the written portion. As for John, he is like the composer’s-best friend-drummer, he makes your compositional ideas sound better than they are, and he effortlessly does things that not only fit but enhance the compositions themselves. And I really love Chris’s sound and the way he supports a band, and his improvising is so subtle you hardly notice how organic his ideas are to the compositions.” Clockworks, as Zimmerli discusses in his liner note, “uses time as its basic material, it is an attempt to give time the kind of satisfying shape it so often lacks”. From another point of view, though, “Clockworks can be seen as a kind of elaborate justification of my stylistic evolution. There’s an overall progression from the abstract to the melodic that takes place over the course of the piece, just as there has been over the course of my career. The evolution involves a series of permutations of the main theme, which is heard in its most explicit form on the last track. The exact same notes are used in the first movement, which is not very melodic-sounding and might even seem freely-composed. I used the melody itself as a series and made it the basis of “Linear Variation”, which is another of the more “out” pieces on the CD. Gradually the theme settles—it matures—into its singable self.” Контейнер: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks Разрядность: 24/96 Формат: PCM Количество каналов: 2.0     Лог проверки качества foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2018-05-06 15:21:57 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Patrick Zimmerli / Clockworks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR13 -2.64 dB -20.42 dB 0:41 01-A Scattering Of Stars (Distension Variation) DR12 -0.10 dB -16.25 dB 6:21 02-Pendulum DR13 -1.51 dB -17.96 dB 3:39 03-Metric Variation DR14 -0.97 dB -19.21 dB 6:54 04-Waltz Of The Polyrhythmic Palindrome DR13 -1.02 dB -17.72 dB 6:42 05-Linear Variation DR11 -7.76 dB -24.72 dB 6:29 06-The Center Of The Clock DR13 -3.31 dB -20.32 dB 0:39 07-Entropic Variation DR16 -0.10 dB -18.12 dB 7:14 08-Boogaloo Of The Polyrhythmic Palindrome DR14 -5.84 dB -25.11 dB 3:44 09-Harmonic Variation DR13 -0.10 dB -16.70 dB 6:37 10-Windup DR12 -0.10 dB -18.42 dB 4:52 11-A Scattering Of Stars (Theme) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 11 Official DR value: DR13 Samplerate: 96000 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 2682 kbps Codec: FLAC ================================================================================ Источник: qobuz.com