Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret & Julian Sartorius
Release Date: 03 March 2014
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602537627820
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Like the wind celebrated in the title track, the Colin Vallon Trio has a subtle, insinuating power. From a still and silent place its music may breathe gently, or steadily build pressure until attaining an eruptive forcefulness. This sense of poetic compression and quiet relentlessness was evident on the trio's ECM debut album Rruga, released in 2011.
Now, with leader Vallon writing almost all of the programme and new drummer Julian Sartorius detailing its floating rhythms, the Swiss trio has entered a brave new space where touch and inflection are more important than soloistic gesture. Melodies, unfolding slowly, are shared between Patrice Moret's bass and Vallon's piano. A fresh group language is being developed here, extended in the group improvisations which close the set. It was produced by Manfred Eicher at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in 2013.
Colin Vallon (born 1980 in Lausanne) has been leading his own bands since 1999. Patrice Moret (born in Aigle in 1972), joined Vallon's trio in 2004. Pianist and bassist have also honed their musical understanding as members of Albanian singer Elina Duni's quartet (see the wonderful ECM album Matinë Malit), where improvisation frequently takes place outside of jazz's frame of reference. Vallon has often said that vocalists have influenced him more than other pianists. Disinterested in technical display, he savours the sound and texture of each resonant chord, each carefully placed note, as the trio's searching improvisations move forward.
Personnel: Colin Vallon (piano), Patrice Moret (double bass), Julian Sartorius (drums)
Tracklisting
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Jan Garbarek Quartet
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Jiem
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Tom Green Septet
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra
Elaine Delmar
Ross McHenry
