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Lars Danielsson: Signature Edition 3
by John Kelman
That Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson is a pliant, flexible player who's worked with American artists including John Abercrombie, Pat Metheny, and David Liebman, and notable European names such as Eivind Aarset, Ulf Wakenius, and Nils Petter Molvær isn't much of a secret--at least, not to audiences on the east side of the Atlantic. In North America he's less of a proven entity, a status that deserves to change on the basis of Signature Edition 3, the third in ACT's series ...
Continue ReadingLars Danielsson: Tarantella
by John Kelman
Choosing the right players can be the decision that makes or breaks a project. For years, now--as far back as his longstanding (and outstanding) quartet with saxophonist Dave Liebman, pianist Bobo Stenson and drummer Jon Christensen, through to the Norwegian posse on the electronica-centric Mélange Bleu and his intimate duet recording with Polish pianist Leszek Możdżer, Pasodoble (ACT, 2007)--Swedish bassist/cellist/pianist Lars Danielsson has made consistently astute choices. Tarantella continues the winning streak, bringing Możdżer back for another album of romantic ...
Continue ReadingLars Danielsson & Leszek Mozdzer: Pasodoble
by John Kelman
In direct contrast to the ambitious musical scope of his Nu Jazz-ish Melange Bleu (ACT, 2006), Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson teams up with Polish rising-star pianist Leszek Możdżer for Pasodoble, an intimate series of duets that reflects both musicians' penchant for haunting lyricism and deceptive simplicity. While improvisation is a fundamental part of these fourteen miniatures (most under four minutes and only one in excess of six), so too is form. Generally subdued in nature, the romantic ...
Continue ReadingLars Danielsson: Melange Bleu
by John Kelman
Music--improvised or scored--is inextricably linked with how it's arranged or orchestrated, a point made crystal clear by Lars Danielsson's Mélange Bleu. The bonus track on the Swedish bassist/cellist/ pianist's Libera Me (ACT, 2004) hinted at the direction Danielsson would take on Mélange Blue--a blending of acoustic instruments, concert orchestra and technology to create a lush new mix (or Mélange) that retains Danielsson's innate lyricism, but places it in the sonic realm of Nu Jazz. With some of ...
Continue ReadingLars Danielsson: Mélange Bleu
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ormai lanciato sulla strada di altri scandinavi, come Nils Petter Molvaer e Bugge Wesseltoft (non a caso presenti nell’organico), il contrabbassista, violoncellista e pianista Lars Danielsson si spinge un po’ oltre il precedente lavoro Libera me (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione) e mette in scena un album molto artefatto, elettrificato e ricreato in studio (il mitico Rainbow Studio di Oslo, sotto la supervisione dell’ingegnere del suono Jan Erik Kongshaus). Ecco così che gli strumenti sono ampiamente sostituiti da sampler, ...
Continue ReadingLars Danielsson: Libera Me
by John Kelman
When the bonus track on an album is the most adventurous piece, you know there might be trouble. And that's not to say that bassist Lars Danielsson's latest album, Libera Me , is bad; it isn't. In a year where we've seen other artists mesh jazz improvisation with an orchestra, most notably pianist Steve Kuhn with Promises Kept (ECM) and Charlie Mariano with Not Quite a Ballad (Intuition), it has come to pass that these two disparate concepts--the obvious demand ...
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