Distances
Norma Winstone
label: ECM format: CD UPC: 00602517549234 release date: 5/27/2008
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Tracks
| Distance (Norma Winstone): | ||
1. Distance | ||
2. Everytime We Say Goodbye | ||
3. Drifter | ||
4. Giant's Gentle Stride | ||
5. Gorizia | ||
6. Ciant | ||
7. The Mermaid | ||
8. Here Comes The Flood | ||
9. Remembering The Start Of A Never Ending Story | ||
10. A Song For England | ||
Distances
Distances Norma Winstone’s first ECM recording in a decade is a project that indeed traverses territories, its wide-ranging repertoire embracing original material, tributes to Coltrane and to Pasolini, cover versions from Cole Porter to Peter Gabriel, pieces inspired by Italian folk music and by Erik Satie, a free calypso and more. For all its broad focus, however, the music is unified by the rigorous control the musicians exert upon their material. This is jazz of chamber music sensibility and precision, by a trio that improvises in a clearly-defined group language. German reedman Klaus Gesing and Italian pianist Glauco Venier have been influenced by Winstone’s earlier recordings, but they work with the material in ways entirely their own.Both making ECM debuts here, Venier and Gesing have been active as duo partners for more than a decade. Guesting with them eight years ago Winstone recognized at once the potential for trio work: “it was very clear that there was a real possibility of the music developing.” The work has progressed on several levels. Both Venier and Gesing are imaginative composers and Winstone, a great singer still underrated as a lyricist, adds words that extend the atmospheres of the pieces with a poet’s sure touch. Conversely, piano and bass clarinet or soprano sax frequently underline the meaning of the words. The trio is more of a ‘songs band’ than was Azimuth which emphasized the voice-as-instrument (an approach revisited here on the song “Gorizia”).
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- Norma Winstone(Other)
- Glauco Venier(Piano)
- Klaus Gesing(Bass Clarinet, Sopranino Saxophone)
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