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Bengt Berger / Jonas Knutsson / Christian Spering / Max Schultz: Blue Blue
ByThe seventh album of the trio-turned-quartet feature twelve compositions, five of them penned by Schultz and the others by the three remaining musicians. The atmosphere on all 12 songs is relaxed, characterized by an emphatic, nuanced interplay. Schultz fits organically into this kind of supportive interplay, solidifying the group highly melodic vein. But he is also a very dominant musician who shifts the quartet musical focus into a much more jazz-structured pieces.
The quartet limits its borders-binding spiritliterallyto the minimum and opts now for more polished, almost mainstream jazz pieces. This shift is apparent on Schultz most open composition, "Kim Corner," a piece that at first adopts a kind of Ornette Coleman open rhythmic interplay, but eventually is developed as a light, breezy piece with a Pat Metheny-like solo. Only Spering's "Tar Shehnai," on which he bows beautifully the Indian bowed instrument by this name, regains the genre-blind spirit and departs from the common jazz sensibility of most of the pieces.
Still, the quartet sound in its new incarnation is a tight, strong group, suggesting a set of new playful melodies.
Track Listing
Frankly; Beyond; My Sequence; Kim's Corner; Old and New Blues; Tar Shehnai; Maximum; Babylon; Blue Blue; Motsols; La Rana Cansada; Max Gura.
Personnel
Bengt Berger
percussionBengt Berger: drums; Jonas Knutsson: saxophones; Christian Spering: bass, tar shehnai; Max Schultz: electric, nylon and steel string guitars, mandolin.
Album information
Title: Blue Blue | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Country & Eastern
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Instrument: Percussion
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