Release Date: 23 June 2014
Label: Challenge
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917338720
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 23 June 2014
Label: Challenge
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917338720
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
Solo piano album by American pianist/composer Elan Mehler, who has been called "disorienting and fascinating" by MOJO magazine and a "refreshingly slow answer to our trashy nanosecond pop culture" by Time Out. Mehler was discovered by veteran DJ, broadcaster and label boss Gilles Peterson, who released three Mehler albums on his Brownswood Recordings label.
'Early Sunday Morning' contains a healthy dose of standards ("Come Rain or Come Shine," "Don't Explain," "It Never Entered My Mind"), a number of originals that have the lived-in confidence of the comfortable and worn, from the lovely "Ophelia's Song" that opens the record, to the infectiously angular "Snakes of Coney Island," to the lilting, lyrical "Abigail's Waltz". And of course there's the album's centrepiece, the four-part, disconnected suite "Early Sunday Morning", which boasts a melody so twisting and haunting it recalls Blue-period Joni Mitchell.
Personnel: Elan Mehler (piano)
Tracklisting
The Eric Ineke JazzXpress Feat. Tineke Postma
Trichotomy
Enrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris
The Dam Jawn
Jussi Reijonen
Roseanna Vitro
Batik
Eran Har Even
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra
Elaine Delmar
Ross McHenry
Open Thread (Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan van der Schyff)
Antonio Farao
Mark Guiliana
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig