Swell, Steve / Kende Dreams - Hommage a Bartok
SKU
21-SHCD-160
Rob Brown - alto saxophone
Steve Swell - trombone
Connie Crothers - piano
William Parker - bass
Chad Taylor - drums
Great freebop release from one of my very favorite current trombonists and a totally great band!
“Trombonist Steve Swell's approach to a Bartók homage on Kende Dreams is a synthesis and it advisably leaves the encounter with the Hungarian a relatively loose and oblique affair, with specific points of convergence but an end product that feels more like it was inspired by the composer than obliged to adopt his methods.
The seven tracks are creative music pitched at the highest level; as is that music's unalienable right, it absorbs and transforms things that it comes into contact with. So, unlike Milhaud's attempts to quote or characterize jazz, this is jazz eating and fully digesting modern classical music, turning it into something else completely.”
- LabelSilkheart
- UPC7320470171578