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Bobo Stenson Trio: Indicum (2012)
John Kelman
Senior Editor since 2004
With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, John wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.Recent articles (2,378 total)
With Cantando (ECM, 2008), Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson finally documented the significant renewal of his quarter-century trio with bassist Anders Jormin
Anders Jormin
bass
. The pair had been playing with Jon Fält since the departure of drummer Jon Christensen
Jon Christensen
b.1943
drums
in the early 2000s. But if Fält was already touring with Stenson when Goodbye (ECM, 2005) was released, its curiousand less than completely successfuldecision to record with the late Paul Motian
Paul Motian
1931 - 2011
drums
meant that only those fortunate enough to have heard the trio live knew just how much Fält was altering its complexion while, at the same time, embracing its core constituents.
If Cantando followed the trio's typical modus operandicovers reflecting the trio's fondness for Latin songsmiths like Silvio Rodriguez, classical composers like Alban Berg and Petr Eben and somewhat obscure choices from jazz innovators like Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
b.1930
sax, alto
and Don Cherry
Don Cherry
1936 - 1995
trumpet
, plus a handful of original material and spontaneous compositionthen Indicum similarly follows suit, speaking with an even more profound shared understanding.
Indicum's broad yet unified program runs the gamut from dissident German singer/songwriter Wolf Biermann ("Ermutgung") and Argentine folk music exponent Ariel Ramirez ("La Pereginacion") to Scandinavian classical composers Carl Nilsen ("Tt er jeg glad") and Ola Gjello ("Ubi Cartias"). Beyond the trio's connective open-ended approach, allegiance to understatement and unrelenting elegance, however, there's another thread. Or, at least, a partial one.
Bill Evans
Bill Evans
1929 - 1980
piano
, alongside Sweden's Jan Johansson
Jan Johansson
1931 - 1968
piano
, has long been a touchstone for Stenson's own pianistic impressionism, but he's never beforeat least, not in his ECM discographyrecorded a song written by or associated with the late piano legend. Stenson opens Indicum with a solo reading of Evans' "Your Story"a late-period composition documented only on posthumous recordings like Turn Out the Stars (Nonesuch 1996), recorded just months before his passing in 1980. If it's impossible not to feel the connection, it's equally clear in Stenson's clarity of thought, dynamic dramaturgy, and even greater use of space and nuance of touchhere, and throughoutthat it's absolutely more about subsummation than imitation.
A temporally pliant look at composer George Russell
George Russell
1923 - 2009
piano
's "Event VI" comes from Evans' co-billed Living Time (Columbia, 1972), here far more streamlined than the large ensemble original that was, most unusually for Evans, propelled by a strong rock beat. One of Stenson's greatest strengths has always been his ability to hone in on a song's heartbeat, regardless of its original context, and fold it into the soul of his trio. In his co-arrangement of the lovely Norwegian traditional "Ave Maria" (with singer/kantele player Sinikka Langeland
Sinikka Langeland
), Jormin, too, proves his mettle at bringing material to the trio that fits beautifully within its ever-expanding purview.
But it's Indicum's three free improvisations that truly demonstrate this trio's greatest strengths, and why Fält has become such an essential side to its equilateral triangle. Not since Reflections (ECM, 1996) has Stenson's trio been so free to express itself both texturally and rhythmically. First with Cantando and now the sublimely stunning Indictum, this triothe boldly impressionistic Stenson, serenely singing Jormin and restrained yet unconstrained Fältcombines ethereal melodism with gentle grounding to create music that possessesand movesboth soul and spirit, head and heart.
Track Listing: Your Story; Indikon; Indicum; Ermutigung; Indigo; December; La Peregrinacion; Event VI; Ave Maria; Tit er jeg glad; Sol; Ubi Caritas.
Personnel: Bobo Stenson: piano; Anders Jormin: double bass; Jon Fält: drums.
Record Label: ECM Records
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