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Lee Shaw Trio: Live in Graz

AAJ Italy Staff By AAJ Italy Staff

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Un breve DVD ed una incisione dal vivo per conoscere meglio l'arte della brava quanto misconosciuta ottantunenne pianista Lee Shaw. Dalla sua parte c'è un contagioso, rilassato, gioioso swing tipico degli anni '50.

Pur non essendo una innovatrice, il pianismo della Shaw trabocca di squisità musicalità e le sette tracce del live austriaco riescono a catturane la classe cristallina nella sua limpida, elegante icasticità

Senza ricercare strutture insolite, il suo trio cerca di offrire la spontaneità e la freschezza del jazz dal vivo, con invidiabile interplay e senso del blues. È un disco molto misurato, intelligente e godibile, che rimane comunque ancorato ad una concezione classica del piano trio. In compenso tanto swing, sicurezza armonica, chiarezza di fraseggio e distesa comunicativa.

È un trio che senza fare mirabilie riesce a produrre un jazz classico ma da manuale, con qualche bella scelta in scaletta, a cominciare da "Night Mist" di Jamal. Dal DVD si apprende che la Shaw fu la mentrice di John Medesky, insieme a tante altre cose che lasciamo scoprire direttamente al pubblico.


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Track Listing

CD: 01. Easy Walker; 02. Song Without Words; 03. Elegy; 04. Rain Threads; 05. Street of Dreams; Foots; 06. Stan's Song; 07. Night Mist Blues. DVD: 01. Easy Walker; 02. Lonely Town; 03. Crazeology; 04. Blues Eleven+ interviste.

Personnel

Lee Shaw
piano

Lee Shaw (pianoforte); Rich Syracuse (contrabbasso); Jeff "Siege" Siegel (batteria).

Album information

Title: Live in Graz | Year Released: 2009


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