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This is drums giant Paul Motian's 80th birthday album though for a legend who helped reinvent ensemble improv with visionaries such as Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, it might sound like a pipe-and-slippers decision to hook it on such over-exercised tunes as the title, Tennessee Waltz and Let's Face the Music and Dance. But Motian enlists Bill Frisell on guitar and Thomas Morgan on bass to turn the usual glides and smooches of these songs into a lurching, spontaneously contrapuntal undertow, in which the rhythm lies as much in what's not being played as what is. But over that, Motian has cannily placed the limpid, quietly evocative voice of Charlie Haden's vocalist daughter Petra an artist more usually associated with alt-rock and a capella work. Haden imaginatively inhabits these songs, delivering a definitively unvarnished version of the title track over Motian's snuffling brushwork and Morgan's huge bass sound, and unfolding tenderly revealing accounts of Easy Living and I Loves You Porgy. But hearing this inimitably eccentric instrumental trio chime, boom and lurch through Let's Face the Music and Dance is perhaps the real piece de resistance. **** four stars --Guardian
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Paul Motian, batterie - Bill Frisell, guitare électrique - Petra Haden, voix - Thomas Morgan, basse
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5.0 out of 5 stars
a great tribute to a great drummer
30 Nov 2011
By Will
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Format:Audio CD
I went out and ordered this right after hearing that Paul Motian had died - in an email from Bill Frisell's website. How appropriate. One can hardly think of Frisell without Motian. They made so many superb albums. There isn't a bad one among them all. If you like Paul Motian, you can't fail to love this album. Petra Haden is a charming addition to the usual trio format (this time with Thomas Morgan on bass, rather than Petra's dad, who appeared with Motian on many albums, most notably with Keith Jarrett on classics from the 1970s such as the Survivors Suite and Death and the Flower). It's less hectic than some of the Lovano/Frisell/Motian outings - indeeed, it has a dreamy quality to it, even when Petra Haden sits out, as if her influence lingered after the sung songs were over. Many of the tracks are well known classics, played here with affection, taste and nuance. Paul Motian was one of the greatest drummers of the last 50 years. This is a fitting tribute.
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Great for the jazz afficionado
20 Nov 2012
By Bill McNaught
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My wife's son knew Paul Motian and has recorded some of his works. This CD became a treasured gift added to his music collection.
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MOTIAN UN GENIO DEL JAZZ
14 Oct 2011
By Manuel Grosso Galvan
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Motian es una de las mas grandes figuras del jazz de todos los tiempos, ha recorrido y aun recorre todos los caminos, busca siempre nuevos musicos y sus nuevos CD son siempre un regalo inesperado. Del jazz mas contemporaneo al jazz mas placido y refrescante. En este caso Motian busca sus raices mas simples, las mas melodicas y pone su atencion en la dulzura de unos temas inmortales, propios y ajenos, donde el folck o la llamada "musica americana" sobresalen. Despues de unos almbumes mas complicados, pero indispensables, aqui opta por la sencillez y la precision. No hay bateria en el mundo del jazz con mas economia de medios que el, todo un genio. Bill Frissell es el acompañante ideal de esta aventura, como tambien lo es el bajista Thomas Morgan y de regalo el descubrimiento, al menos para mi, de la voz de Petra Haden.
CD para reflexionar sobre la carrera de un musico legendario, que siempre crea mundos nuevos y emocionantes. Los que buscan un disco con clase, solido, amable de escuchar, y de esquisita ejecucion, este es el idoneo.Gracias a Paul Motian por hacer siempre una musica diferente o esquisitamente elegante.
CD para reflexionar sobre la carrera de un musico legendario, que siempre crea mundos nuevos y emocionantes. Los que buscan un disco con clase, solido, amable de escuchar, y de esquisita ejecucion, este es el idoneo.Gracias a Paul Motian por hacer siempre una musica diferente o esquisitamente elegante.
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