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David Haney: Stix and Stones (Piano and Drum Duets)
Il duetto piano-batteria, anche per un fatto squisitamente timbrico, nasconde più di un'insidia, e questo lavoro non ne è che l'ennesima riprova. Vi trovano infatti posto episodi in possesso di una loro autonomia, di una loro precisa ragion d'essere, accanto ad altri, invece, un po' generici, in cui qua e là si avverte la mancanza di un contrabbasso.
Fra i primi segnaleremmo tutti e tre i duetti con l'italo-belga Giovanni Barcella, cioè quelli con una maggiore identità stiilistico-espressiva, vale a dire il vitale "Dolphy's Hat," "Opposites," in avvio più cogitabondo, poi vivifico, articolato, a tratti nervoso, e "Quantum Galopy," segnato da un interscambio particolarmente fitto, e poi ancora "Ticking Time Bomb," denso e libero, fissato accanto a Marvin Smith.
Altrove non si oltrepassa granché un dialogare anche apprezzabile sul piano lessicale quanto a conti fatti prevedibile.
Track Listing
Angel Foot (a); Pretty Prancing Woman (b); Dolphy’s Hat (c); Ticking Time Bomb (d); Six Four Four Four (a); Opposites (c); Octavios with Bulagus (d); Improvisation on a Theme by Tomas Svoboda (a); Quantum Galopy (c); House Party Starting (e).
Personnel
David Haney
pianoDavid Haney: pianoforte; Bernard Purdie (a), Jimmy Bennington (b), Giovanni Barcella (c), Marvin "Bugalu" Smith (d), Han Bennink (e): batteria.
Album information
Title: Stix and Stones (Piano and Drum Duets) | Year Released: 2016 | Record Label: Slam Productions
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