John Abercrombie is one of those ECM artists, of which you can actually buy any publication "blind": If you like his sound, his introverted, unobtrusive way of playing, his melancholic-sounding picturesque compositions, which is hardly experience disappointments, and who surveys his oeuvre, will find in it hardly breaks or even revolutionary twists, but an astonishingly homogeneous, with the years, continues to be compressed oeuvre. This recording in 2013 published is somewhat special, as they in the pianist Marc Copland has a second musical leader, whose play on this (inspired by Hitchcock) 39 levels are so high that it would have been quite fair, from a John Abercrombie / Marc Copland Quartet to speak. Is complemented by Drew Gress on bass this and Joey Baron on drums. Drew Gress has also some very big moments in this production, and Joey Baron plays as a drummer anyway in a league of its own. (Which is why I, the two did not want to sell them as mere "rhythm section" under value ...) Four compositions are by Abercrombie, two of Copland, an improvised collectively (yes, Jazz ALIVE!), And then the four zerfieseln also the standard "Melancholy Baby" the most beautiful way ... As for the cover, I want to say that I heard the production just in the car, on a trip through fallow fields before Munich, while in the north announce black gray clouds Mountains an approaching squall. The whole thing looked exactly like this, as if the sky an ECM Cover stage, and who knows, maybe he has indeed?
PS Who combining Copland / Abercrombie succeeded for just keeps like me, who is interested in safe for the 2011 at the remarkable Munich label Pirouet Records publish duo album "Speak to me" also 'a Preziose!
