MARTIAL SOLAL
NEWDECABAND:
EXPOSITION SANS TABLEAU (2006)
320 KBPS
Algiers-born French pianist Solal, who has been around long enough to have played with guitar legend Django Reinhardt, is one of the undisputed giants of European jazz; his name commanded widespread respect even back in the 1950s, when "giants" and "European jazz" weren't often heard in the same sentence.
The Newdecaband is an Ellington-inspired little-big band Solal has written for previously, and the group plays an all-Solal repertoire of six pieces here. Some of it sounds a little like Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool; some is contemporary-classical (such as the pure and stately vocal by Claudia Solal on A Frail Dance); some explores spiky call-and-response, like the alternating bursts of onrushing orchestral patterns and piano remonstrances on Western. Denis Leloup's velvety trombone inventiveness is masterly on A Frail Dance, and the title track is a racing, staccato-melody piece with tersely swapped phrases. The album may be a bit restlessly busy and stop-go for some jazzers, but it's crafted down to every fraction of a note.
1. Incoercible
2. Western
3. A Frail Dance
4. Cortancyl
5. Exposition Sans Tableau
6. Lamblike
3 comments:
Wonderful blog, but are your rips genuine 320? the reason i ask is a 60mb rar opens into a 150mb folder - is that possible?
And usually v2 = 170-210kbps, and yours are 318kbps.
I dont mean to come across ungrateful, im not..im just wondering.
It's 320 VBR which means you DO get 320 when necessary and a little less when it's not. That explains why the file compress so well and still sound like 320 CBR which is nothing but a waste of of good bitrate when it's not really necessary.
Excellent album Mr Moodswings, far less dry than some of his other big band albums but as knotty and thought provoking. thanks
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