This is I'm thinking an fairly unkown cd. Art Lande, Paul McCandless and Dave samuels.
Check out the instrumentation. Piano, oboe and English horn and vibes.
And the record label is the ECM label. I'm finding out that a lot of young people don't know about this label. It was important for me because as I was findind myself as a player this label showed me music that wasn't standards or straight ahead which I was playing a lot of.
I think when we talk about CDs and what we like we should always use I statements. So, I think this cd is very very beautiful and quite different. I had listened to it in years, but it was brought up in our last online coffee house.
What do you think of it?
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Randy_Sutin Thu, 02/20/2025 - 19:08
First and foremost, I think this is an album of tremendously beautiful music.
It didn't do super well as a commercial venture because it was genre bending. Being on ECM, it was labeled as "jazz" and, given that it had a lot of improvisation, that seemed to fit as well as any other genre label might have. But, it really had elements of European art music, in particular the sort of stuff associated with Steve Reich and other minimalist composers in the mid-late 20th century tradition. It also lacked some elements that are traditionally considered fundamental in jazz, like the pocket groove (the groove here, which is totally compelling, is more like something you might hear from a performance of Stravinsky or even Bartok)... But who cares??? I don't. It's beautiful, touching, and superbly well performed in my opinion.
But lots of people do care... again, in my opinion, that is their loss. Labels do help market music but they say nothing about how good it is and often create a bubble outside of which the music will not be heard and enjoyed. I think we could all do with more great music like this and fewer labels on all the music we listen to.