Bica, Carlos / Frank Möbus / Jim Black - Azul in Ljubljana
SKU
CF 495
Carlos Bica Double Bass
Frank Möbus Guitar
Jim Black Drums And Percussion
"As a composer, double bassist Carlos Bica is a cultivator of the song format, but if as such he knows the virtues of studio production and
engineering, in order to perfect a composition at a detail level, he’s also very much conscious that, in jazz, the best for a song is to be
played live and to grow from the confines of what is written through improvisation. Hence the importance of this new album of his band
Azul, with Frank Möbus and Jim Black, recorded in the magnificent 2015 concert they gave at the Ljubljana Jazz Festival. All the studio
recordings by this trio are great, but here the music breathes more widely, go more deep and have more expressive effect, because a jazz
song depends more from the “here and now” of a performance than a pop or a folk song, even when there’s aspects of both in the music.
They’re self evident, as it is the rock factor in some of the tracks, and also the lyrical quality coming directly from the classical tradition: Azul
is the sum of all this in a beautiful, mysterious, dramatic and sometimes intense way, giving a human, fragile, contradictory soul to the
electric jazz of the 21st century."
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