Downtown NY cornerstone pianist Anthony Coleman is heard in a solo album of Coleman originals including a piece dedicated to Roscoe Mitchell, plus one piece each by Billy Strayhorn, John Klenner, and Ellington/George/Hodges/James, all beautifully captured at Boston's Jordan Hall as Coleman reveals his unique logic and inventive approach to solo performance.
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Label: NoBusiness
Catalog ID: NBLP 127
Squidco Product Code: 28274
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2019
Country: Lithuania
Packaging: LP
Recorded in Jordan Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on February 14th, 2018, by Jeremy Sarna.
"I first met pianist Anthony Coleman with saxophonist John Zorn in his Cobra project. He also appeared in Zorn's "Kristallnacht", "The Big Gundown" and "Spillane", and he has played with musicians such as Ron Andrson, Dave Douglas, David Krakauer, Ikoe Mori, Marc Ribot and Wadada Leo Smith. He has studied with Jaki Byard and George Russell, as if he has not become the most talked about jazz pianist in recent years, one cannot blame the teacher.
One of the reasons he worked closely with Zorn was probably his Jewish background, which he shares with Zorn, and his Jewish background he often brings into the music.
Here we meet him solo in a recording from Jordan Hall in Boston, USA on February 14, 2018, and we get nine freely improvised "stretches", showing in a good way where in the free landscape you find Coleman. We get a lot of free improvisation, but also some slightly melancholy and thoughtful themes that he spins around with nice games.
Often, pianists in the area of freely improvising are compared to Cecil Taylor and musicians who often "take it all out". But that's not the case with Coleman. Here, there is a clear structure to what he is doing, and he is much closer to an updated version of Bill Evans in his game than Taylor. Maybe a little Keith Jarrett once in a while, though he certainly goes his own way musically.
And it's a nice whole over the nine "stretches" of the record, which fascinates. He is a creative and inventive pianist, and his ideas I think are well expressed on this fine solo record."-Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts (translated by Google)
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• Show Bio for Anthony Coleman "Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century. At the age of thirteen, Coleman started studying piano with Jaki Byard. At the New England Conservatory of Music he studied with George Russell, Donald Martino and Malcolm Peyton. Coleman's collaborators over the years have included guitarist Elliott Sharp, trumpeter Dave Douglas, accordion player Guy Klucevsek, composer David Shea, former Captain Beefheart bandmember Gary Lucas, classical and klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, guitarist Marc Ribot, bassist Greg Cohen, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist Roy Nathanson. Coleman's compositions and solo work reflect his interest in his Jewish background. His groups Sephardic Tinge and Selfhaters in the 1990s explored both the lively, rich and exuberant musical legacy as well as darkly described the lamentation of a minority culture in Diaspora. Sephardic Tinge toured extensively, especially throughout Europe, in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Coleman's Disco by Night is a work inspired by his visit to his family's homeland of Yugoslavia and was his first major solo record released by Japan's Avant Records in 1992. Shmutsige Magnaten, in which he played the songs of Yiddish folk composer Mordechai Gebirtig, a victim of the Holocaust was also released by Tzadik Records in 2006. It was recorded live at midnight in the oldest synagogue of Kraków, Poland, a few steps away from Gebirtig's birthplace during the annual Kraków Jewish Music Festival in 2005. His duo albums, The Coming Great Millenium, Lobster & Friend, and I Could've Been a Drum with Roy Nathanson, mostly explore the fun, frivolous and joyous alongside the nostalgic hearts and minds of Jews in modern and old America. These recordings typify Coleman's "free" playing style as well as his multi-instrumental capabilities with him also operating samplers, trombones, percussion as well as piano and voice. Coleman and Nathanson have performed all over the U.S. and Europe. Coleman is also an accomplished composer with many works being commissioned by numerous ensembles including the 2006 work Pushy Blueness which was released on Tzadik. His work includes Damaged by Sunlight, issued on DVD in France by La Huit, the album Freakish: Anthony Coleman plays Jelly Roll Morton (Tzadik); a monthlong residency in Venice as a guest of Venetian Heritage, a commission for the Parisian Ensemble Erik Satie: Echoes From Elsewhere; tours of Japan and Europe with guitarist Marc Ribot's band Los Cubanos Postizos; a lecture/performance as part of the symposium "Anton Webern und das Komponieren im 20 Jahrhundert" (Neue Perspektiven, Basel, Switzerland) and a commission from the String Orchestra of Brooklyn (Empfindsamer). He has been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music since 2005 and Mannes College New School for Music since 2012. His album The End of Summer features his NEC Ensemble Survivors Breakfast. Coleman has degrees in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and the Yale School of Music and attended Mauricio Kagel's seminar at Centre Acanthes in Aix-en-Provence, France. He has received grants and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Djerassi Colony, the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Kulturbehörde and the Yellow Springs Arts Center. He spent the spring semester of 2003 teaching theory and composition at Bennington College in Vermont. In 2004 he was the subject of a three-day festival, Abstract Adventures, in Brussels, Belgium. Coleman writes articles for All About Jazz and Bomb magazine and was a contributor to John Zorn's essay collection Arcana: Musicians on Music in 2000. In the mid 1990s, Coleman appeared in Sabbath in Paradise, Claudia Heuermann's documentary about Jewish music in the avant-garde downtown scene in New York, A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky, Heuermann's documentary about John Zorn, and Following Eden. In 2005 Coleman was interviewed for the Marc Ribot documentary The Lost String, directed by Anais Prosaic." ^ Hide Bio for Anthony Coleman
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Track Listing:
SIDE A
1. For Roscoe Mitchell 3:05
2. Something To Live For 4:23
3. Funeral Xylophone Music 5:38
4. Verveine 3:37
5. Catenary Oath 5:09
SIDE B
1. Her Cerotic Dip 4:22
2. Just Friends 5:18
3. For Mark Andre 5:04
4. I'm Beginning To See The Light 8:17
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