INTAKT RECORDS – REVIEWS

TIM BERNE – MATT MITCHELL
ONE MORE, PLEASE

Intakt CD 395 / 2022

Cover Web:KATHARINA WEBER IN MÁRTA’S GARDEN Intakt CD 393

 

Saxophonist and composer Tim Berne has built a reputation for complex and gritty music — but five years ago, when Matt Mitchell, the pianist in Berne’s superb band Snakeoil, released his solo interpretations of Berne’s work, it revealed a new side, lush and gorgeous. Berne must have liked the angle; it showed on their 2020 duet recording Spiders. He and Mitchell maintain a mostly graceful vibe on One More, Please, a new recording of originals, plus one by the saxophonist’s mentor, Julius Hemphill. Oct. 21. Intakt.

Johnsonn, WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source, Sept 13 2022 (EN)


'druckfrisch'-Musiker des Monats September 2022 wird der Saxophonist Tim Berne, der das 'druckfrisch' Team auf der Baustelle in seinem Haus in Brooklyn empfing

Druckfrisch, Das Erste, ardmediathek.de, Sept 12 2022 (DE)


The outside jazz music of Tim Berne sits so far apart from everyone else that listening to his music gives listeners no choice but to abandon all preconceptions and accept it, as Django Bates writes, “with open eyes, ears, mind and heart.”

S. Victor Aaron, Something Else!, Oct 15 2022 (EN)


Wenn ich Django Bates halbwegs verstehe, dann zeigt One More Please (Intakt CD 395) TIM BERNE und MATT MITCHELL als zwei Schnecken, die von der Flanke ihres Fujiyama rauf und runter schauen, sich anblicken, nicken, und die nächste Etappe zum Gipfel der Vollkommenheit in Angriff nehmen.

Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy Newsletter, July 2022 (DE)


Fotballøyas mesterpianist Django Bates har skrevet coverhefte-teksten til denne framifrå duoutflukten. Der slår han fast at den som gidder å grave djupt har alle muligheter for å finne noe som likner på unikt gull denne gangen. Her er det bare å stille seg på linje med Mr. Bates - dette er nemlig noe ganske for seg sjøl.

Tor Hammerø, Nettavisen, Oct 21 2022 (NO)


Saxofonist/componist Tim Berne (1954) behoort al jarenlang tot de improvisatiescene in de New Yorkse jazz, hij heeft inmiddels zo’n 50 albums op zijn naam staan bij verschillende labels, Intakt is de laatste in de rij. Hij werkte in allerlei constellaties zoals Hard Cell, BBC Trio, Science Friction en Snakeoil met pianist/componist Matt Mitchell (1975) werkt hij al meer dan 10 jaar samen, o.a in Snakeoil. Daarom zijn ze enorm op elkaar ingespeeld en hebben ze een eigen muzikale taal ontwikkeld, vast gelegd wordt er nauwelijks iets, het is grotendeels improviseren. De meeste nummers zijn ontsproten aan het brein van Berne met uitzondering van “Number 2” van Julius Hemphill, die een groot inspirator was van Berne en hem ook saxofoon leerde spelen.

Jan van Leersum, Roots Time, Nov 01 2022 (DE)


Tim Berne and Matt Mitchell are one of the great duets of “this kind of music.” It is strange how memory telescopes. You follow music for decades, and then you notice someone new on the scene. Matt Mitchell in Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, for example. Then a decade-ish passes and you’re still thinking of Mitchell as “the new guy,” except there’s this amazing alluring body of work featuring him and Berne together.

Gary Chapin, The Free Jazz Collective, Nov 08 2022 (EN)


 

Ormai tra le coppie più solide del jazz con- temporaneo, Tim Berne e Matt Mitchell si- gillano il loro ultradecennale legame con un'incisione di alto livello emotivo. in cui aspetti qualitativi strettamente tecnico- musicali si sposano al meglio con la chia rezza di pensiero. Insieme negli Snakeoil fin dal 2009.

Piercarlo Poggio, Audioreview Magazine n. 447, November 2022 (IT)


 

One More Please / Tim Berne-Matt Mitchell

Hiroki Sugita, Japan Jazz Magazine, Nov 2022 (JP)


Tim Berne/Gregg Belisle-Chi Mars Intakt

John Fordham, Best New Releases of 2022, Jazzwise Magazine UK, Nov 08 2022 (EN)


 

Saxophonist Tim Berne und Matt Mit- chell am Piano, das ist eines dieser stel- laren Zwillinge, die im Jazz, State of the Art

Kay Friedrichs, Klenkes Magazine, Dec 2022 Germany (DE)


 

Forti di una collaborazione che dura dal 2009 con l'entrata del se- condo nella band Snakeoil del pri- mo, Tim Berne e Matt Mitchell sono in grado di parlare una lin- gua jazz densa di mistero e rigore, come due amanuensi che custodi- scano i segreti di un'arte appresa con anni di studio devoto.

Nazim Comunale, Blow Up Magazine, Dec 2022 Italy (IT)


Tim Berne/Gregg Belisle-Chi Mars Intakt

Xavier Prévost, overblog, Dec 14 2022 (FR)


 

Fascinerend hoe Berne productiviteit en consistentie kan bewaren, zowel qua kwaliteit als indivi- duele visie. En hoe goed zijn talloze bands, van Bloodcount en Caos Totale tot Snakeoil, ook zijn of waren, het is via de naakte duo- bezetting dat zijn persoonlijke manier van componeren en improviseren nog het duidelijkst naar voren komt. One More Please is intussen het derde album voor Tim Berne met Matt Mitchell, die ook bij Snakeoil speelt.

Guy Peters, Jazz & Mo' Magazine, Dec 22 (BE)


 

In der Musik von Saxofonist Tim Berne und Pianist Matt Mitchell spielen Technik, Intuition und Emotion wun- derbar zusammen. Ire lang- jährige musikalische Partner- schaft ermöglicht einen Kitt der Freiheit, der ire Dialoge leichtfüssig hält.

Pirmin Bossart, Kulturtipp Magazine, Switzerland, December 2022 (DE)


 

Im intimen Setting dieser Duo-Einspielung öffnen Tim Berne und Matt Mitchell eine Wundertüte voller Klang-, Rhythmus- und Ideengeschen- ke, die glitzernd, bunt, in nicht enden wollendem Fluss in den Hör-Raum purzeln, diesen in Mini-Suiten zur Entdeckungs landschaft werden lassen.

Wernor Siebert, Jazz Podium Magazine, December 2022 (DE)


 

Zwei Musiker am Puls der Zeit spielen Musik der zeitlosen Qualität. Den Kompositionen liegt nur wenig Material zugrunde. Umso erstaunlicher, wie schier unerschöpflich und im Flow die beiden die Themen ausloten und weitertreiben.

Pirmin Bossart, Jazz N'More Magazine, Switzerland (DE)


 

Matt Mitchell, pianiste d’avant-garde se réclame de Paul Bley et d’Andrew Hill : il fait partie des explorateurs. Pour le débit, on compare l’Américain né en en 1975, à Bud Powell. Pour la texture à Herbie Hancock. Pour l’attaque à Cecil Taylor et à Don Pullen. Son dernier duo avec le saxophoniste alto Tim Berne présente un modèle de lyrisme, de complicité, d’expression originale, de liberté contrôlée. One More Please, leur troisième album sur le label suisse Intakt (distribution Orkhêstra) envoûte du début à la fin. Même si Tim Berne compose tout et séduit par son jeu, Mitchell semble parfois imposer le discours. Pareil album, tout en finesse, alliant limpidité, découverte, beauté, on en trouve pas tous les matins sur la platine...

Bruno Pfeiffer, Le Club De Mediapart, Jan 08 2023 (FR)


 

Du répertoire relativement écrit d'Angel Dusk, tout en respectant des durées relativement raisonnables au regard de l'œuvre de Tim Berne (ici de 3'29 à 11'51), le fonctionnement semble d'abord plus exploratoire, sous n effet d'entrainement réciproque, chacun prenant les devants a tour de rôle sur une improvisation libre, des compositions instantanées, voire des partitions pré-existantes, convenues à l'avance ou proposes en cours d' improvisation.

Franck Bergerot, Jazz Magazine France, December 2022 (FR)


 

TIM BERNE / MATT MITCHELL One More, Please (Intakt 395; Switzerland)

Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter, January 2023 (EN)


 

Das Design erinnert ein wenig an Bernes altes Screwgun-Label, die Musik aber ist zeitlos. Die beiden Musiker kennen sich seit Jahren aus verschiedenen Besetzungen sehr gut. Sechsmal Berne und einmal Mitchell stehen hinter den sieben Stücken, die so interessante Namen wie Middle Seat Blues/Chicken Salat Blues haben.

sim, freiStil Magazin, 2023 (AT)


 

One of the strengths of great jazz musicians is their ability to master a genre, expand upon it, evolve and embrace change. Those who have followed saxophonist Tim Berne’s career closely recognize his perpetual ability to view the world in a unique way, one that incorporates his experience as a free jazz performer but never fits into any kind of box. Beginning with his Snakeoil recordings more than a decade ago, Berne has worked closely with pianist Matt Mitchell, whose deceptively mainstream approach fuels Berne’s imagination in myriad ways.

Steven Loewy, The New York City Jazz Record, March 2023 (EN)


 

Diversity between the US concept of free improvisation and the European one is put into boldest relief in these duo sessions. The contrast doesn’t have much to do with the fact that on Le Demon De L’ Analogie, the disc with Swiss pianist Michel Wintsch and German Udo Schindler plays a variety of saxophones and clarinets, while on One More Please, American Tim Berne concentrates on the alto saxophone with fellow Yank Matt Mitchell on piano.

Ken Waxman, Jazzword, April 26 2023 (EN)


 

L'etichetta svizzera Intakt ha un catalogo imponente, ma non è l'aspetto quantitativo il dato da sottolineare ma l'altissimo livello delle proposte, lasciando spazio a musicisti che rischiano il passo anche in territori poco assestati, o rinnegati in cambio di un quieto vivere mainstream.

Guido Festinese, Alias/il Manifesto Italy, June 17 2023 (IT)


 

L’essenziale line-up autorizzerebbe l’inclusione del presente lavoro nel sottofilone jazz dei duo pianoforte-ancia, ma vi è il sospetto che le naturali propensioni del contitolare Tim Berne possano condurre a sparigliare le carte delle attese e lanciare “oltre” i termini del dialogo abitualmente inteso.

Aldo Del Noce, Sound Contest, October 31 2023 (IT)


 

Otima l'idea dell'etichetta svizzera Intakt di documentare ampiamente la musica del sassofonista newyorkese Tim Berne, un artista che dagli anni '70 è in costante trasformazio-ne. In One More Please duetta con il pianista Matt Mitchell, suo partner da più di un decennio nel gruppo Snakeoil. Sono brani elaborati, dalle strutture labirintiche, insomma pienamente contemporanei; il sax contralto di Berne ha l'asciuttezza del cool jazz e il coraggio dell'avventuriero, Mitchell sembra rileggere Keith Jarrett oltre ogni romanticismo. È musica percorsa da una passione e da un senso del dialogo che dimostrano quanto il jazz di oggi può essere vivo e sanguigno. Proprio come lo è stato per tutta la sua storia.

Claudio Sessa, Corriere Della Sera, Italy, October 2023 (IT)


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