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darksideof
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Topic: E. Weber/E.S.T., Timisoara, Romania, 2-3 XII 2006 Posted: March 16 2007 at 01:17 |
I Also have to say to how bless you are buddy. Whao you have seen E.Weber live!!
I was introduced to ECM jazz's artist back in the 80's by my dear uncle, who is a big progressive/jazz/fusion fan. beeing as fan of progressive rock band it was not too hard for me to love the sound of ECM's recordings. I love these recordings as much as love my prog- rock albums. I have dreamt to see some of these masters of their instrument live. Specially Eberhard weber I have been searching for live vhs or any live video recording with of him for years, but I haven't been any lucky. I will die for to see any live video concert of him and these masters. Jan Garbarek I have all his recording and almost all his guess aperance on all the ECM recording tham!, that is almost 40 albums.( actually I have a bad recording on VHS of (star) performimg live in europe in the 90's. I recordered from T.V. years ago that's about it. It will be dream to see him live.) Terje Rypdal( I have seen him live once about 10 years ago.awesome!!. I have the only dvd that came out last year: Trio Rypdal Vitous Gurtu.) I have never seen anything live from these masters. kenny wheller Egberto Gismonti Arlid anderson john surman david darling L.Shankar Can you help me out? maybe? Edited by darksideof - March 16 2007 at 02:00 |
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Ricochet
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Posted: December 31 2006 at 01:20 |
The festival was at its first edition, we might definately get second chances.
Right these days, our local television gives the three major concerts recordings that defined jazz performance in Romania this year: Al Di Meola, E.S.T (both whose concert I have covered) and Jean-Luc Ponty (who I missed, was earlier in July). Especially for E.S.T., my mom will be happy, she couldn't go, but at the news and read of fantastic music, she wanted to hear something herself. I did "bootleged" for her some 5-10 minutes of the E.S.T. concert, haha, but this should be the real and full thing. nice gesture from the local TV, no doubt. |
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Posted: December 31 2006 at 01:01 |
Splendid and informative reviews there . EST are superb, and I still haven't seen them live so I'm extremely jealous! The rest of the festival line up sounds equally impressive. Is this an annual event, or was it a one off?
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Posted: December 06 2006 at 14:21 |
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Ricochet
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Posted: December 06 2006 at 07:09 |
self-shameless promotion, a friend of mine gave the review to her boss, which actually arranged, organized and brought the big names over at the Jazz Festival. He liked it and considered it just the right thing to appear in a local paper artical (or is it local? ).
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Ricochet
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Posted: December 05 2006 at 11:02 |
thank you both for the small attention given to my euphoria.
try actually to invite some more afficionados of jazz to share something over here. E.S.T. gave autographs after the show, but only on CDs. I didn't bring mine, so that's about something for which I'll go next time (in fact, I don't believe I'll ever miss the possibility of seeing them live, whether it's miracles of coming right in my home-town again or me going going out of the cage and meeting them elsewhere...) |
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Dick Heath
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Posted: December 05 2006 at 09:23 |
Excellent reviews and photos to boot. Saw EST at Leicester city's Demontford hall about 3 summers ago , they were superb then although that hall doesn't particularly lend itself to the intimacy that some of EST's music deserves (cf. the intimacy suggested by EST's Stockholm live performance seen on DVD)..
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 22:44 |
You are so lucky, seriously.
I am not that familiar with EST, but it seems I should be. Eberhard Weber is a true master of his instrument, and certainly one of the best modern composers. I can say the same for Jan Garbarek, who is one of my alltime favorite musicians/composers, just amazing. If only groups like this would come around here... |
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Ricochet
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Posted: December 04 2006 at 16:38 |
* I realize that
the bands and the artists to which I’ll address this review are not in the
Archives (and will probably not get in the Jazz-Rock entourage of Progressive
Rock Archives at all, therefore a “non-prog” (such a shallow word) live
performance review among so many prog entitled ones in inconvenient; knowing
that, I think however that the focus should be rather on live performance
reviews rather than prog strict distinctions. Of course, I don’t want now to
create trends of reviewing non-prog stage acts, but I would appreciate if this
personal, appreciative and interpretative mention over brilliant values of jazz
gets accepted here. ** just like in
my previous live performance review, of Al Di Meola, which turned of a whooping
1700 words, I advise you to read this in comfort and in a relaxed time, cause
I’ll go deep and...well, you know me as a reviewer… nuances and satisfactions Or Tord Gustavsen Trio day 1, December 1 2006 Eberhard Weber & The Ultimative Trio day 2, December 2 2006 Esbjörn Svensson Trio day 3, December 3 2006 Most likely I’ve been dreaming so far, or
skepticism prevent any real knowledge into the matter (the skepticism, of
course, of hoping, wishing, but also of being granted), but things get lately
the color of value and of legendary “visits” that end in eulogies. If just two
months and a half ago, a group of students worshiping good music in uplift
tempos managed to make out a cultural event for everyone’s taste, plus
highlighted the entire even with Al Di Meola’s special and beautiful
performance (which I’ve attended and reviewed it over here), now came again, in
a more official tone (the Jazz Banat organization isn’t, after all, a student’s
galore and a wishful thinking slight significance), the chance of three jazz
magic nights, with both diversity and autochthony emanating, in symbols. What
else then to be glad. Now I’m not saying up here the thing of good music
(in mostly meant jazz/classical legendary/notorious valences) is or was
desired, but never. Only if we are to refer about Jazz, there are annual
chances, like the Gărâna or (most astoundingly) Enough generalization. In short, if at Gărâna,
over at the passed July, came Jean-Luc Ponty and if in September Al Di Meola
played for the provincials, in the mild-winter atmosphere of fresh December,
the Timişoara Jazz Festival’s first edition brought legends among moods: Tord
Gustavsen, Eberhard Weber and Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Thus, jazz out of
discretion. On a personal level, it happens that I go through
a full period of jazz passion, listening at least one album per day and
experiencing the delights of many referential artists. Just to mention, I have
the impression of Chick Corea’s all major albums, I know much about
McLaughlin’s amazing music, I’ve listened to some other artists John
Abercrombie, Barbara Dennerlein, Jan Garbarek, Charlie Haden. And (to get in
touch more closely with the subject) I have bought and purchased and listened
to all 10 prime albums made by Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Regarding them it’s
interesting to say that I’ve chosen them by a simple reference. Up on their
latest album, Tuesday Wonderland, there’s was this catchphrase “best jazz band
in Europe” that made me decide, among the impulse of not going only by the
heavy names (though I got a heavy name itself, not a contemporary shadow), to
try them out. And the reward was very nice, because they are very good. Upon the news that E.S.T. will come enthusiasm got
hold of both me and my father (who also considers them beyond valorous) and, in
quick tempo, we got hold of tickets. The festival was somehow costly, ranging
from 100 RON (30$) top seats to 20 RON (7$) up the third balcony, where you can
probably see just the top of the artists’ heads. In a rather quick decision, I
also spent some more money on going alone to say Eberhard Weber, whom I also
knew from listening to his Chorus
album. The National Theater in First day performance Trigon from Moldova
(presumably in relations with our country’s jazz manifest – though I’ve read
later that it would have high value and array in the European interest) and
Tord Gustavsen Trio. I didn’t actually attended this day out of…resources and
out of going in the end to the artist I knew and to the quality I’d recognize
or anticipate. So I’m afraid this one’s a blank page over here. Second day was one of compromises and freely
played music, of conventional style and exquisite mood – all in a good flavored
experience. The band to start (and to open, by most intentions, the day in a
light mood) was Bright White Line, one group of musicians and students from
Timişoara along with one foreign bassist and one titled saxophonist, who portrayed
a dynamic small exuberance, but in the casual pattern of band improvisation, of
solo addiction (saxophonist and the pianist, also band leader), of theme
composition and modulation, of the usual dynamic touches that you get from a
well-minded talent and a free and easy play spirit. Not bad at all, but only of
perspective (considering what came, but mostly where they stood).. For the ear
and for the groovy soul, nothing was anything but comfortable, but critics will
look after them moderately. I didn’t like the bassist and the two
percussionists (who I actually know from school) didn’t impress me much. The
sax has talent and the pianist has touch. (Outside conversation, it wasn’t bad
to see how the recently made The second act was the one of wind instrumentalist
Liviu Butoi and pianist Mircea Tiberian, friend in jazz and mature players in
the business (Tiberian is one of the two existent doctors in jazz from
Romanian). The style was gracefully mature and profound and the mindset was all
on deep motions. They played for over one hour and a half, presenting five
epics of at least 15 minutes each of fantasist improvisation, ambient color,
overwhelming experimental and feisty technique of surrounding, capturing,
manifesting the ardor of nuances. Progressing from ambient to over-powered,
from present to surreal, from alive to aberrant, the movement of the Dark project from which they’ve played
selections was certainly interesting, but not surely in greatness’ skill and
essence and definitely not perfect. I would actually say that to moments that
sounded great and responded to an imaginary emotion were also things of a lento
unwanted atmosphere, of a bruising on-going style and of a stretch too hard to
swallow. The duo’s effort has intuition in being innovating, but not in
pleasing the atmosphere. My belief: they did most upside-down and they sketched
one hour of gloomy tasteless jazz. Okay with eloquence and maturity, but not to
turn the evening and the dynamic meaning of the festival in to your mind
reflections. Relieved after the experimental infusion
considerable mess and with already three hours having gone in an instant,
Eberhard Weber ended the night in an elegant boom and in a wondrous, memorable
sign. The ultimative trio was him on the electric upright bass along with
percussionist Reto Weber (drums, cymbals, Senegalese and Indian
percussion) and a world valor beatboxer, Nino G. This last artist was part of
performance’s hit, doing impressive solos, in theatrical and humorous
opportunities, plus playing along the trio’s composition, in a bop rhythmed,
even „gangasta” scent, style, pleasing the audience to extremes never
distinguished in the entire day (certainly not to the moody BWL and for sure
not in the duo’s credits). The UT mostly went for total exuberance in
unimaginable (by standards) craft and a wakening enfold. Total greatness coming
down upon us and in our souls was the only possible argument to an
exceptionally made class driven musically essentialized performance. Eberhard
Weber in sober style, but in a freely gesturized outtake, gave the wanted
example of renowned value, of amazing grace and instrument wield and of jazz
sense above so many other things. He played two times in solo style and that
was, by me, the most eclectic moment of the one hour, plus frenetically asked
encores, recital. Of lucid dramatic sound, of theme sublimity (D-lirium tremens, a work of art),
dramatic, impulsive, ethereal…. Polyphony, harmony, orchestration (yes, only
by the EUB, Weber created an ambiance of sound and of theme collided upon each)...
Complete success! Fantastic! Again, I’m the “child” who discovered sublime
interpretation, but there’s no way Weber’s conduct isn’t outstanding in
everybody’s eye. Large
comma and a deep breath before starting again, cause there is lots to say about
day two. A day of just two performances, but the most awaited and, in the end,
most exciting day of the festival (which never lost spark). Anca
Parghel or the Carpathian nightingale, an already aged value of our Romanian
jazz, and not only – if that Jazz Podium magazine resonates to you, then it’s
good to know that Parghel was the only jazz vocalist from up here to make it
out there (to add, a life experience and performance in Europe and in the
States and a worthy character song that’s played by herself and not even, just
instinctively) opened the evening with a good hour of melodic singing,
emotional interpretation, some curios moments and some freely made gestures
that made the atmosphere warm and lightfull. In close touch with the audience
and in a relaxed mood herself (giving nothing else to us as well).The
repertoire went from two blues compositions of her wisdom to referential songs
(Caravan, Summertime etc.) in
dedication to fine masters of the past (Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, G. Gershwin).
Also an improvisation of one heart folk song of hours, Ciocârlia, to spark the moment in
charisma. She played in the full over the corepetitive (as no definition was
the essence) good judgment of Next Generation, a trio out of which the bassist
and the drummer were Anca Parghel’s sons (and with a newly received pianist,
who did his best to outstand the night). The trio had an intro solo, plus in
the occasional mentioned curios moments (during one piece, Anca Parghel handed
over the vocal super-swing to all three musicians) or just in solos of
interpretative beauty. The bassist is most talented in my opinion. And Anca
Parghel did a sweet job. Blues, swing, vocal, surround. And
the most magical and delirious moment of two jazz evenings straight lasted for
a whooping one hour and forty minutes (which, to be honest, it’s sheer
generosity), as Esbjörn Svensson Trio, the most renowned, expected and
acclaimed band of the entire festival and, as proven, the most eclectic and
challenging listen of all, made their mark and played their music like
gentlemen, music masters and philosophical ascenders towards the perfect being
friendly, reachable, lasting. Esbjörn Svensson dazzled me (the pianist, the
easily-said connoisseur and, ultimately, the simple liker) with soft played or
strength luminated sound or with moment of first-rate inventive improvisation.
Dan Berglund generated a master-tone by his natural in essence modified by
plugs double bass play, making a generate grave emotion trembles, plus giving
several slides of positive extravagance, from hard rockish lamento with bow
deep cut, to pinches in the specific style of short dexterity ,from sensual to
gorgeous or (inversed) to simple ambiance that even those sounded more than
fine and more than “just” double bass justifications. Magnus Örström did the
eclectic, the wild, the powerful and the eyes-opening rhythm of E.S.T. with one
or two solos that captured and blessed, otherwise with some active art, from
culminant electricity to well-designed mood, from chic abstract (rare) to some
sound modulation, modification and experimentation himself. E.S. gave the lead
and the touch, but other than that it was the clear case of three whole
outstanding musicians, each dominating their instrument and making out of their
ability a supreme pleasure (relations again, as always). Music
was the fourth entity, the sixth sense or whatever you wanna name it. They played dynamically overall, with some
acoustic climax that knocked the normal feelings out of everyone, but didn’t
forget that tranquility has its sublime emotion as well; they went for themes
and, even more accurately, with a specific program, with pieces from their
known albums, but “forgetting” about the convention or about the rigorous play
with experimentations of sound (by modified mechanism), with intermezzos of
different kind, by elixiric solos and by full use of free mature style over at
the “clique” of taking one theme and jazzistically improvising it at complete
valences. From what they’ve mentioned
and what was easily recognized by me, they played four or five moments from
their latest album, Tuesday Wonderland
(I actually think they’re on a tour of promoting this one, but the accent
wasn’t on their latest and on their strict form of that creation), they
interpreted the epic pieces from Viaticum
(which happens to be one of my favorite E.S.T. compositions, so you can imagine
the enthusiasm), plus that first encore was the Dodge The Dodo hit (which is also one of my preferred), in another
fabulous improvisatorial from Esbjorn and Dan. Open-minded rock small flavor,
modern jazz with its groove perspicacity, experimental fragments and fractals,
wondrous improvisation, massive imagination, soul-driven passion – these are
the tags of music, of perfection, of everything you could have wished for. They
simply left me speechless and in adoration (that to mention my personal
astonishment among the perplex frantic and general Just
like in my first live concert (jazz) experience appreciation, everything seems
to be the eulogy and the type of things that sound splendid, without much to
talk in other direction (what’s criticism after all? Should I say that “we”, in
the jazz domain, are slightly behind the times or the innovation or go in
strange influences? Or should I mention how some things could have actually
missed from the entire festive jazz power manifest? Of no use). But I assure
the reader (who managed so far to understand and, hopefully, to imagine what
I’ve had as a musical live through) that, at such great names who played in
such a fantastic way, with such a normal devotion, without smokes and fanciness
and with an appealing of rare kind, I can only feel extremely comfortably in
greatness and can only conclude in upright satisfaction, in provocative content
and in the light of something truly valuable having been so close to my ear and
to my soul. (there is also no equivocal or contradictory thing towards saying
that you’ve seen these two brands in a live act, right in your comfortable
town). Masterliness E.S.T. and Eberhard Weber! And kudos to a Jazz Festival that had absolute benefits. --------- Bright White Line http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Ricochet75/jazz%20festival/BrightWhiteLine2.jpg Liviu Butoi & Mircea Tiberian http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Ricochet75/jazz%20festival/Butoi-Tiberian2.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Ricochet75/jazz%20festival/EberhardWeber2.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Ricochet75/jazz%20festival/EberhardWeber3.jpg Electric Upright Bass Anca Parghel & Next Generation http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ancaparghel2jv2.jpg http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ancaparghel3th2.jpg E.S.T.http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Ricochet75/jazz%20festival/EsbjornSvenssonTrio1.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Ricochet75/jazz%20festival/EsbjornSvenssonTrio3.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Ricochet75/jazz%20festival/EsbjornSvenssonTrio6.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Ricochet75/jazz%20festival/EsbjornSvenssonTrio9.jpg Edited by Ricochet - December 05 2006 at 01:01 |
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