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278: AKI TAKASE – DAVID MURRAY. Cherry - Sekura

Intakt Recording #278/ 2017

Aki Takase: Piano
David Murray: Tenor Saxophone, Bcl


Ursprünglicher Preis CHF 12.00 - Ursprünglicher Preis CHF 30.00
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Format: Compact Disc
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Im Laufe der Jahre haben Aki Takase und David Murray eine vorzeigbare Anzahl herzergreifender Kompositionen kreiert, von denen einige, die dem Prozess der Reife ganz besonders verpflichtet sind, nun auf der CD «Cherry - Sakura» zu hören sind. Im Vergleich zum früheren Album ermöglichen sie nicht nur eine andere Form des musikalischen Dialogs, sondern auch eine profundere. «Cherry - Sakura» ist ein wunderbares Gespräch über die grossen Lebensfragen von zwei Künstlern, die in ihrem Leben bereits alles zumindest einmal erfahren haben. Um einen veralteten Jazzspruch wiederzubeleben, Takase und Murray sagen etwas mit diesem Album. In einem Satz: Reife ist alles. (aus den Linernotes von Bill Shoemaker)

Album Credits

Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker
Photos: Francesca Pfeffer

Recorded April 30, 2016, at Studio SRF, Zürich, by Michael Brändli. Mixed and mastered at Hard Studios Winterthur by Michael Brändli.

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Tor Hammerø
Tor de Jazz

Spennende samtaler

Den japanske pianisten Aki Takase og den amerikanske tenorsaksofonisten og bassklarinettisten David Murray har funnet hverandre igjen etter over 20 års opphold. Aki Takase og David Murray har mye å fortelle oss – og hverandre.

Musikk for meg er ofte sammenliknbart med samtaler. Takase (70 ) og Murray (63) fant tonen på alle vis for nesten 25 år siden da de spilte inn «Blue Monk». Når har de plukka opp igjen tråden som om om det var i går og «Cherry – Sakura» har blitt nok en samtale av høy byrd.

De to kommer fra forskjellige tradisjoner – Takase med sin japanske bakgrunn og så frijazzbevegelsen i Europa. Hun har bodd i Berlin i mange tiår og er gift med en annen pianist i avantgardismens elitedivisjon, Alexander von Schlippenbach. Murray hører hjemme i den amerikanske tradisjonen med både modernisme og masse blues i seg.

Til troass for dette så har altså de to funnet det nyttig og spennende å utfordre hverandre – eller kanskje akkurat derfor. Denne gangen møttes de på halvveien, i Zürich i Sveits. Murray er nå nemlig bosatt i Portugal. Repertoaret er også bortimot 50/50 – de har skrevet halvparten hver pluss at de tolker forbildet Thelonious Monks "Let´s Cool One".

De to fører uten unntak meningsfulle og originale samtaler basert på sine enorme referanser. Det er ikke vanskelig å høre at Murray, som også var en del av World Saxophone Quartet, har en sterk tilknytning til alt og alle fra Ben Webster og Coleman Hawkins til Albert Ayler og John Coltrane, mens Takase bidrar med alt fra sin japanske oppvekst til Monk og enda friere toneganger.

Til sammen har det blitt et nytt, flott og tidløst møte med to strålende og originale musikanter.

https://torhammero.blogg.no/1525114416_spennende_samtaler.html

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John Sharpe
All About Jazz Blog

Twenty three years after their first studio date Blue Monk (Enja, 1993), Japanese pianist Aki Takase and American saxophonist David Murray reunite in Switzerland. There has been one live recording since, Valencia (Sound Hills, 1997), but the question remains what took them so long? The saxophone/piano axis has been a favored format for both. Murray's companions include Mal Waldron, John Hicks, Randy Weston and most frequently Dave Burrell, while Takase's partners encompass Rudi Mahall, Silke Eberhard, Louis Sclavis and Daniele D'Agaro. The attraction of the barebones set-up is obvious in the starkly lit stage and direct communication it affords.

The program of four by Takase, three by Murray and a lone interpretation of Monk contains a lovely mix of the bracing and the beautiful, which in a way sums up both their playing. Takase combines hints of tradition and modernity into a personal but appealing mélange. Murray displays a breathy full tone with just the occasional acerbic twist, deployed in a blend of dashes and suspensions which keep the listener guessing as to where he will end up. He also gives his accustomed control of the upper registers a thorough airing, though he does so in such a way that it enhances the emotional charge.

Half the pieces are tributes of one sort or another and they engender empathy by the barrel load. The ravishing title track gets the album off to a searing start, part mantra and part lament, before opening for Murray's tumbling tenor over Takase's rippling chords. Both take an unaccompanied break, Murray ascending into finely wrought falsetto, Takase edging towards dissonance, before a tender theme restatement which nonetheless takes some tangential liberties. That establishes the template, where the two take conventional roles, time and melody usually near at hand.

Of the other dedications, they swaddle Murray's "To A.P. Kern" in rich harmonies and murmuring Ben Webster-isms, while Takase's "Nobuko" is another gorgeous hymnal, bittersweet with traces of joy, in honor of her late mother and her "Blues For David" comes across as wryly affectionate. Elsewhere "A Very Long Letter" begins choppy and tense as Murray's agitated jostling cuts across the pianist's line, but after a bout of muscular piano introspection they end in jaunty unison. A similar breathless quality pervades "Stressology" where Murray hits the stratosphere. Perhaps unsurprisingly they are at their most playful on a sprightly "Let's Cool One," enlivened by Murray's insouciant bass clarinet. Two old hands in full command.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/cherry--sakura-aki-takase-intakt-records-review-by-john-sharpe

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