5052442005346

Sound Clouds

Martin & Douglas Finch Speake

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Format: CD

Cat No: PUMPKIN006

Release Date:  01 September 2014

Label:  Pumpkin

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5052442005346

Genres:  Jazz  Classical  

  • Description

    The alto saxophonist Martin Speake's meeting with classical pianist Douglas Finch is not his first recorded duet encounter with another master improviser, but it is perhaps his finest spontaneously improvised set to date. This CD, the sixth to be released on Martin's Pumpkin Records label, features a selection of fifteen tunes, all composed in the moment by Martin and Douglas.

    For Martin, the collaboration was as inspiring and challenging: "Playing and recording with Douglas was an unexpected delight...Douglas was a revelation to me and although our individual musical vocabularies are totally different there seems to be a place we can meet when playing.

    It is very exciting for me to hear where we go with each idea, which is really the unknown. Because he is not a jazz player, the traditions of accompanying, soloing and improvising within that musical language are absent, which forces me to play differently...The whole history of classical music is there at his fingertips and he is that rare classical musician as he can improvise in the moment with that awareness."

    Personnel: Martin Speake (alto saxophone), Douglas Finch (piano)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Prelude
      • 2. Ballad I
      • 3. SCAMPER
      • 4. On the way
      • 5. Mirage
      • 6. Chorale
      • 7. Stück
      • 8. Ballad II
      • 9. Berceuse
      • 10. Sound Clouds (to Iannis Xenakis)
      • 11. Flugue (to Dmitri Shostakovitch)
      • 12. Elegy I
      • 13. Elegy II (Bells)
      • 14. Hoedownup
      • 15. Waltz