Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg
Release Date: 24 May 2010
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602517992207
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
The ever-adventurous American pianist Marilyn Crispell is heard in quietly exploratory improvised duets with clarinettist David Rothenberg (in his ECM debut), recorded in Woodstock in 2008. The intimacy of the format clearly intrigues her: she and Rothenberg make haunting music together in dialogue and create new compositions together in real time.
This is Marilyn Crispell's first duo release on ECM. It follows a string of acclaimed trio albums - beginning with the prizewinning 'Nothing Ever Was Anyway' in 1996, soon followed by 'Amaryllis' and 'Storyteller' and, in 2008, by the solo 'Vignettes'. However Crispell is no stranger to the duo format, and elsewhere she has recorded duos with Anthony Braxton, Iréne Schweizer, Tim Berne, Louis Moholo, Andrew Cyrille, Leroy Jenkins and many others. Crispell's goal, in playing fixed pieces or improvisations, is to play music "only from the heart" and to rule out any habitual or stylized expression: "My work on ECM has often been about allowing such musical transformations to take place. It has been the perfect label for me to develop new directions in my music."
Active as a player who has collaborated with musicians from Nils Økland to Peter Gabriel to Michelle Makarski, David Rothenberg is also well-known as an author and naturalist. His books include the best-selling "Why Birds Sing", and the titles here reflect also on the natural world. "The Hawk and the Mouse", "Owl Moon" and "Still Life with Woodpeckers" are amongst the associative titles. Rothenberg studied with Jimmy Giuffre and Joe Maneri, the two late, great, trailblazing exponents of improvising clarinet (one piece here, "The Way Of the Pure Sound" is dedicated to Maneri).
Personnel: Marilyn Crispell (piano, percussion), David Rothenberg (bass clarinet, clarinet)
Tracklisting
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Fred Hersch
John Taylor, Norma Winstone & Kenny Wheeler
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Matthew Bourne
Various Artists
The Residents
The Residents
Sun Ra
Elton Dean
Soft Head
Mike Osborne Trio
