Label: Ecm Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
UPC: 781182159426
EAN: 0781182159426
ASIN: B000003200
Release Date: 1996-05-21
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Peter Erskine
Label: Ecm Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD UPC: 781182159426 EAN: 0781182159426 ASIN: B000003200 Release Date: 1996-05-21 |
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in the spirit of Bill Evans.......1999-10-30
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Peter Erskine, Palle Danielsson, John Taylor
As It Is ( ECM 1594 )
Recorded in September 1995, this trio is reminiscent of the trio led by Bill Evans and the recordings are fairly quiet and introspective and somewhat restrained.The group is led by drummer Peter Erskine though most of the material is written by pianist John Taylor, who Erskine met in the 80's while a member of John Abercrombie Trio. They have been friends since then and got to work together on Music For Large And Small Ensembles, and also The Widow In The Window.
At times improvisational, the trio none the less doesn't deviate to the point of losing the listener in what they are doing as could have been the case with a lot of free style jazz recordings. Instead a lot of the notes are left to resonate and shimmer. Also not being a big fan of drums, I may add that the drums are not played too loudly, which as this is Erskine's project could have well been the case here.
Erskine's background is in big bands and electric jazz formats and this trio was a bit of a change for him by the sounds of things. Erskine in an interview claims it was a departure but also an arrival in the way that he normally worked. John Taylor is a self taught pianist, influenced by composers like Debussy and Ravel. In fact on this recording he includes Sir William Walton's Touch Her Soft Lips And Part, a fairly melancholic piece of music if ever there was one. In the past he has worked with Jan Garbarek and Miroslav Vitous. Palle Danielsson is another one of the long term stayers for ECM. He has been around since the early seventies, played with the likes of Garbarek and Vitous, as well as Collin Walcott and lately has been involved in the excellent Nordan projects, investigating Swedish music alongside Lena Willemark and Ale Moller.
Like a lot of ECM this is sensitive and intelligent and thoughtful playing by three very talented musicians. This is inwards looking music if you like that kind of thing. And I do.
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An excellent thoughtprovoking soundscape!!!.......1998-11-17
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