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Track Listings
| 1. Dansir |
| 2. Risky Business |
| 3. Descending Grace |
| 4. Illinoise |
| 5. Cat Walk |
| 6. Excuse My Shoes |
| 7. Swirls |
| 8. Jack And Betty |
| 9. Class Trip |
| 10. Soldier's Song |
| 11. Epilogue |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
2004 is proving to be a juicy year for Abercrombie fans, old and new, with the issue of this superb Class Trip session offering an invigorating follow-up to the spring release of Abercrombie's :rarum Selected Recordings (ECM 014 212-2). Chosen by Abercrombie himself, the :rarum release offered plentiful evidence of this most literate of guitarists' ability to move convincingly from meditative passages of pedal-point atmosphere and lilting lyricism to steaming excursions into a bewitching blend of rock-driven and more freely turned phrasing and dynamics. On Class Trip, the breadth of expression remains as broad (yet acutely focused) as ever, but with the chief elements of Abercrombie's aesthetic--quirky time signatures and freshly conceived harmonic twists and turns, allied to some of the most liquid and story-telling phrasing in jazz--now elevated into chamber jazz of the highest possible quality. Featuring the same musicians who contributed to the fine Cat'n'Mouse from 2000--violinist Mark Feldman, double-bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron, each of whom is in terrific form--Class Trip offers a diverse, yet beautifully integrated variety of excursions into music both hot and cool, dream-like and visceral, punchy and piquant. Try the opening "Dansir" and concluding "Epilogue" for evidence of the richness of resource explored here--a richness that embraces both the swinging, quintessential jazz grooves of "Swirls" and the beyond-category reading of Bartok's "Soldier's Song", the tenderness of "Jack and Betty" and the full-on power of "Illinoise". A class trip, indeed.--Michael Tucker
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Stunningly, ravishingly beautiful
13 Nov 2004
Format:Audio CD
With the same line-up (Abercrombie, guitar; Mark Feldman, violin; Marc Johnson, double-bass; Joey Baron, drums) as 2002's great Cat 'n' Mouse, Class Trip mines a vein similar to that beautifully recorded chamberlike jazz, with even more spectacular results. This is ECM fully deploying its rapturous, ecstatic sonic palettes. Could this music have been released on any other label? I don't think so. Could this music have been conceived, played, produced, and presented by any other band? Again, I don't think so.
The key to this music is frontliners Abercrombie and Feldman. They mesh, interweave, dance, cavort, frolic, and gambol with consummate artistry, all the while plaiting magical sonorities and sophisticated, mesmeric songlines. Echoes of earlier passages from Cat 'n' Mouse flit in and out of listeners' consciousness, creating an almost anamnetic, sacramental experience. Marc Johnson and Joey Baron, players of consummate taste and imagination, provide the absolute perfect partners to the magical front line
It's not necessary to have heard the earlier disc, but it helps. Together, they mark the high point for Abercrombie, a jazz guitarist of the absolute first rank, who has found his ultimate setting.
Essential.
The key to this music is frontliners Abercrombie and Feldman. They mesh, interweave, dance, cavort, frolic, and gambol with consummate artistry, all the while plaiting magical sonorities and sophisticated, mesmeric songlines. Echoes of earlier passages from Cat 'n' Mouse flit in and out of listeners' consciousness, creating an almost anamnetic, sacramental experience. Marc Johnson and Joey Baron, players of consummate taste and imagination, provide the absolute perfect partners to the magical front line
It's not necessary to have heard the earlier disc, but it helps. Together, they mark the high point for Abercrombie, a jazz guitarist of the absolute first rank, who has found his ultimate setting.
Essential.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Stunningly, ravishingly beautiful
29 April 2004
Format:Audio CD
With the same line-up (Abercrombie, guitar; Mark Feldman, violin; Marc Johnson, double-bass; Joey Baron, drums) as 2002's great Cat 'n' Mouse, Class Trip mines a vein similar to that beautifully recorded chamberlike jazz, with even more spectacular results. This is ECM fully deploying its rapturous, ecstatic sonic palettes. Could this music have been released on any other label? I don't think so. Could this music have been conceived, played, produced, and presented by any other band? Again, I don't think so.
The key to this music is frontliners Abercrombie and Feldman. They mesh, interweave, dance, cavort, frolic, and gambol with consummate artistry, all the while plaiting magical sonorities and sophisticated, mesmeric songlines. Echoes of earlier passages from Cat 'n' Mouse flit in and out of listeners' consciousness, creating an almost anamnetic, sacramental experience. Marc Johnson and Joey Baron, players of consummate taste and imagination, provide the absolute perfect partners to the magical front line
It's not necessary to have heard the earlier disc, but it helps. Together, they mark the high point for Abercrombie, a jazz guitarist of the absolute first rank, who has found his ultimate setting.
Essential.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Nice stuff....but....
9 Aug 2004
Format:Audio CD
This is the second disc from Abercrombie's "new" quartet, with Mark Feldman, Marc Johnson, & Joey Baron, following the 2002 release _Cat 'n' Mouse_ (Feldman also featured strongly on _Open Land_, a "transitional" album between the hot organ trio that occupied Abercrombie in the 1990s & the new band). It's very close to the previous album in many ways--down to the inclusion of exactly two collective improvisations among the Abercrombie originals--though on the whole it's a more streamlined disc, without the exploratory edge of its predecessor (the previous album had a lot of open space on it). The drifting, moody vibe, with a tendency to metres like 3/4 & 6/8, is broken open by the odd hard moment, like the big climax on the opening "Dansir" or the Ornettish freebop of "Swirls", and there's a nice arrangement of Bartok's "Soldier's Song", but on the whole this does get a bit sameish.... A nice album, but go to _Cat'n'Mouse_ first.
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