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Uri Caine: Moloch: The Book of Angels, Vol. 6
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come se li sarà immaginati John Zorn i suoi amati angeli sotto le dita di Uri Caine? Il rapporto stretto e indispensabile tra composizione e esecuzione nei volumi del Book of Angels, di cui questo Moloch costituisce il capitolo numero sei, ci spinge a credere che se li sia immaginati riccioluti e ironicamente sorridenti, apparentemente dimessi, ma attentissimi a ogni dettaglio, insomma che se li sia immaginati come il pianista. C'è qualcosa di obliquamente “fisico" nelle diciotto composizioni ["Rimmon" compare ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine Ensemble: Plays Mozart
by AAJ Italy Staff
Uri Caine prosegue il proprio personalissimo percorso di “rilettura” dei classici che, partito da Gustav Mahler, lo ha visto toccare Wagner e Schumann, Bach e Beethoven, Verdi (nel progetto Otello Syndrome presentato alla Biennale di Venezia) e, adesso, Mozart. Il salisburghese potrebbe in realtà sembrare il compositore più “nelle corde” del pianista di Philadelphia che ne condivide estrema attenzione al ritmo ed ironia, spirito iconoclasta e trasversalità. Caine torna qui al suo Ensemble (abbandonato nelle Diabelli Variations) e, un po’ ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine: Uri Caine Ensemble plays Mozart
by J Hunter
I'll be the first to admit that jazz's treatment of classical music has a bad rap. To my mind, it's not so much the “stuffiness of the latter genre as it is the tendency to simply take a classical composition and “make it swing. What separates Uri Caine's work from other efforts is his ability to take the music to unique, inventive places while maintaining the integrity of the original piece. For this project--which was commissioned for Mozart's 250th birthday--Caine ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine: Developing That Third Ear
by Celeste Sunderland
Mozart's “Piano Sonata in C Major is one of the most well-known compositions in the entire musical canon. Last month pianist Uri Caine strutted across the stage at New York City's Merkin Hall, took his seat and dove into the familiar piece with genteel precision. But quickly, under the influence of his classically trained, but jazz-infected fingers, the music turned into a hard swinging improvisation delivered with a laid-back attack and drizzled with elegance.First and foremost, says Caine, ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine: Plays Mozart
by C. Michael Bailey
Uri Caine is the most successful jazz artist at interpreting classical music. Jacques Loussier certainly applies his brand to such an approach, but he does so in an almost reverent, conservative manner. Caine throws the doors open and forces the old notes and time to reveal their decadent secrets.
Whether his canvases are established works, like Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Bach's Goldberg Variations, or creative recreations like Gustaf Mahler at Toblack, Wagner e Venezia, and Schumann - Love Fugue, Caine recasts ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine: Plays Mozart
by Troy Collins
Ten years ago pianist Uri Caine unveiled Urlicht/Primal Light (Winter & Winter, 1997), his first foray fusing electro-acoustic jazz improvisation with the structural intricacies of the Western Classical canon. Caine's take on Mahler was audaciously brilliant, and it laid the ground work for subsequent projects exploring the work of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Wagner. Plays Mozart is Caine's latest effort in this fertile milieu, as well as one of his most enjoyable.
This is a reunion of sorts: ...
Continue ReadingUri Caine: Transformation, Improvisation and Context
by Paul Olson
Keyboardist/composer Uri Caine was born and raised in Philadelphia. He began playing piano at an early age, and, while still a Philadephian, played with jazz leaders like drummer “Phillie Joe Jones, bassist Jymie Merritt and trumpeter Johnny Coles. While attending the University of Pennsylvania, he studied composition with George Crumb and George Rochberg. Caine soon moved to New York City, and while he describes his early period there as “scuffling, he quickly gravitated towards the city's burgeoning downtown improvisational scenes--most ...
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