A rollicking set of interwoven tunes and improvisations from the trio of Michael Moore on clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone & melodica, Will Holshouser on accordion, and Han Bennink on drums, performing live at Drom, in New York City in 2009 during a 2-week American tour, a joyfully upbeat and lyrical set of improvisations with exuberant drive.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2011 Country: Netherlands Packaging: Cardboard Sleeve in Plastic Sleeve Recorded at Drom, in New York, New York, on October 25th, 2009, by Daro Behroozi.
Personnel:
Michael Moore-clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, melodica
"Two of the most representative exponents of the European jazz and avant scene such as Michael Moore and Han Bennink and a young American accordionist - Will Holshouser - who studied with Anthony Braxton, deepened his knowledge of Creole and Cajun music, explored different areas of the scene North American music, boasts heterogeneous collaborations (Regina Carter and Antony and the Johnsons, David Krakauer and the Brooklyn Philarmonic Orchestra to name a few). This is the original trio protagonist of Live in NYC, almost a permutation of the historic Clusone Trio. The music contained in Live in NYC, a record recorded at the Drom in New York at the end of an equally exciting tour in the United States, is exciting.
Han Bennink is credited with drums but for most of his life he performs on the snare drum hitting the skin, metals, structures and so on with the brushes, exhibiting the usual unbridled craftsmanship and exuberance further highlighted by an unbalanced sonic grip in his favor. Michael Moore, who blows on clarinets or alto sax, traces dazzling trails with a harsh, sometimes abrasive sound with articulate and nervous phrasing but always supported by an important melodic inspiration.
Will Holshouser uses a style that is not revolutionary at all, indeed sometimes close to the tradition of the musette (of which he has deep knowledge and which he regularly attends in the Musette Explosion project alongside Matt Munisteri and Marcus Rojas), but has the extraordinary ability to project performances towards bewildered and unsettling areas thanks to agreements with a naive flavor, touches of color that taste like a toy country and magical potions.
The traditional music of Madagascar, "Hararavo Bilo," the blues more bluesy, "Families Be So Mean," the camouflaged swing of "Kerfuffle / I Never Knew," Kurt Weill and his "Bilbao Song" faced with respect and impudence, in the fingers and minds of the three musicians become something else, a laboratory of ideas that spring with spontaneity and massive doses of inventiveness even on the less attractive material.
Listen to the classic 3/4 of "Balfa Waltz" is to believe!"-All About Jazz Italy (translated by Google)