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360: TOM RAINEY OBBLIGATO. Untucked In Hannover

360: TOM RAINEY OBBLIGATO. Untucked In Hannover

Intakt Recording #360/ 2021

Ralph Alessi: Trumpet
Ingrid Laubrock: Saxophones
Jacob Sacks: Piano
Drew Gress: Bass
Tom Rainey: Drums

Recorded October 15th, 2018 by NDR, Jens Kunze, at Jazz Club Hannover.

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With Untucked in Hannover, Tom Rainey's top-notch quintet Obbligato presents a third album of a collection of jazz stan- dards – with Jacob Sacks on piano replacing regular pianist Kris Davis for this live recording. Wonderful jazz tunes like Stella by Starlight or I Fall in Love Too Easily are interpreted in an open dialogue with stunning joy of playing and improvisation. And though standards are the modus operandi of Obbligato, their approach is intended to be less conventional, less reverential and certainly less solo-centric than many other bands that tack- les with Standards. Obbligato sometimes plays with the essences of famous jazz standards in an implied way, sometimes in a teasing and mysterious way, but always in a tantalizing way.
"Close your eyes, imagine sitting in the front row of your favorite jazz club, sit back and enjoy Obbligato playing pieces from the Great American Songbook in a way you've never heard them before: and by one of the most inventive and inspiring live bands of the last decade," writes Laurence Donohue-Greene in the liner notes.

Album Credits

Cover art: Christine Reifenberger
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Laurence Donohue-Greene
Photo: Jan-Gerrit Schäfer, Jazzclub Hannover

Recorded October 15th, 2018 by NDR, Jens Kunze, at Jazz Club Hannover. Live sound engineer, Raphael Becker-Foss. Recording producer NDR, Felix Behrendt. Recording executive producers NDR, Axel Dürr, Stefan Gerdes. Mastered October 2020 by Michael Brändli, Hardstudios, Winterthur.
Produced by Tom Rainey, NDR and Intakt Records.

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Chris Searle
Morning Star Online

In October 2018 a group of esteemed US-based improvisers came together at Jazz Club Hannover, to play a programme of American Songbook ballads.
Trumpeter Ralph Alessi, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Drew Gress and drummer/leader Tom Rainey stretch out on standards like Stella By Starlight and Just in Time and show how the freest musicians can also bond with great show melodies and create improvising gems from them.
There is some superb ensemble musicianship playing on the cusp of very recognisable melodies and powerful solo virtuosity — hear Dress at the outset of What’s New or Laubrock’s lyricism on I Fall in Love Too Easily.
These five musicians turn tradition inside out while still keeping faith with its enduring melodic messages.
There is power and beauty in their soundscape, transforming Americana with both familiarity and sudden creative surprise, reaching a long way back and far forward simultaneously.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/album-reviews-tony-burke-mik-sabiers-and-chris-searle

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Klaus Nüchtern
Falter Magazine

Das Quintett des US-amerikanischen Schlagzeugsubtilisten widmet sich - im avantgardeaffinen Jazz keineswegs selbstver- ständlich - ausnahms los Standards. Wie sich acht davon auf zeitgenössische Wei- se neu deuten lassen, ohne dabei in haltlo sen Dekonstruktivis mus zu verfallen, wird in diesem gut 50-mi nütigen und äußerst dichten Livemitschnitt von 2018 auf exem- plarische und ebenso kurzweilige wie wen- dungsreiche Weise vor- geführt. Die hellwache Interaktion aller Betei ligten ist schlicht be- glückend.

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