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398: ALEXANDER HAWKINS TRIO with NEIL CHARLES and STEPHEN DAVIS. Carnival Celestial

398: ALEXANDER HAWKINS TRIO with NEIL CHARLES and STEPHEN DAVIS. Carnival Celestial

Intakt Recording #398 / 2023

Neil Charles: Double Bass, Percussion
Stephen Davis: Drums, Percussion
Alexander Hawkins: Piano, Synthesizer, Sampler, Percussion

Recorded September 20, 21, 2022, at Fish Factory, London, UK.

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British pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins is a creative epicenter of the London jazz scene and is regarded as one of the most innovative musicians with a surprising radius of action. His trio with Neil Charles and Stephen Davis was formed in 2012 and masterfully celebrates the connection of freedom and structure, composition and improvisation. Carnival Celestial is a fantastic work of musical presence and impressively proves what is possible with piano, bass and drums – one of the more convention-laden formats in jazz practice. “Hawkins, Charles, and Davis clearly have moved the piano trio forward and stretched its conceptual horizons with Carnival Celestial, and in doing so, they have contributed to its ongoing vitality,” writes Bill Shoemaker in the liner notes.

Album Credits

Cover Art and Graphic Design: Jonas Schoder
Liner Notes: Bill Shoemaker
Photo: Dawid Laskowski

All compositions by Alexander Hawkins (PRS). Recorded September 20, 21, 2022, at Fish Factory, London, UK, by Ben Lamdin. Mixed and mastered January 2023 by Alex Bonney. Produced by Alexander Hawkins and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records, P.O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland.

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Anonymous
The New York City Jazz Record

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Ulrich Stock
Die Zeit

Entdecken

Alexander Hawkins Trio:

Carnival Celestial (Intakt) Ein Klaviertrio! Geht ja nicht ohne im Jazz. Aber der britische Pianist findet neue Wege im Vertrauten

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Claudio Sessa
Corriere Della Sera

Strutture forse troppo organizzate

Alexander Hawkins, pianista quarantenne, spicca fra i jazzisti britannici più avventurosi. Quasi un concept album, Break a Vase (Intakt) presenta il suo nuovo sestetto Mirror Canon, che comprende il noto sassofonista Shabaka Hutchings. É musica densa, ritmicamente avvolgente, forse un po' troppo pianificata ma di tutto rispetto. In fondo anche le <> di Cecil Taylor, cui sembra ispirarsi, erano assai organizzate.

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Jean Buzelin
Cultur Jazz Magazine

Alexander Hawkins, le voici, entouré de deux fidèles comagnons que l’on rencontre souvent avec lui depuis une bonne dizaine d’années, Neil Charles (contrebasse) et Stephen Davis (batterie) [1]. Une fois de plus, le pianiste (et musicien) imprévisible nous a concocté un disque virevoltant et consistant où la musique rebondit, danse, s’engage dans plusieurs pistes, fouille au cœur de la substance, de la texture musicale. Onze pièces très libres, signées par Hawkins, composent ce disque éclaté et pourtant cohérent. Comme quoi on peut renouveler et poursuivre l’histoire du trio piano-basse-batterie, même si l’on y ajoute, sans hiatus, quelques phrases de synthé, quelques samplers et percussions légères. Passionnant. « Carnival Celestial »

https://culturejazz.fr/spip.php?article4049

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