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Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There

Read "So There" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Ci si deve abbandonare completamente e lasciarsi trasportare da suoni e parole per gustare appieno la magia di So There. Steve Swallow aveva già omaggiato l’arte poetica di Robert Creeley con Home, album del 1980 registrato insieme a Sheila Jordan e Steve Kuhn. Ma senza nulla togliere alla splendida cantante di Detroit, sentire i versi declamati ...

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So There

Label: XtraWATT/ECM
Released: 2006
Track listing: Oh No; Names; Here Again; Ambition; Indians; from Histoire De Florida; Sufi Sam Christian; Later; from Wellington, New Zealand / from Eight Plus; Miles; Just in Time; Return; Echo; Sad Advice; Riddle; Blue Moon; I Know a Man; A Valentine for Pen.

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Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There

Read "Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Steve Swallow with Robert CreeleySo ThereXtraWatt/ECM2006 Bassist Steve Swallow has been meditating on the poetry of the late Robert Creeley (1926-2005) for a long time. In 1980, Swallow and pianist Steve Kuhn released an album of song settings of Creeley's poems with vocalist Sheila Jordan ...

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Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There

Read "So There" reviewed by Budd Kopman


So There is a mixture of Robert Creeley reading short poems and fragments of longer ones, surrounded and accompanied by Steve Kuhn's light, dazzling, free piano and Steve Swallow's feathery bass (and guitar-like solos in the upper register)--plus occasionally the Cikada String Quartet, both alone and with Swallow and Kuhn. Creeley's poems have ...

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Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There

Read "So There" reviewed by John Kelman


Things don't always work out according to plan. Robert Creeley, who passed away last year at the age of 78, has been a source of inspiration for bassist Steve Swallow for nearly half a century. So much so that one of Swallow's most memorable albums, Home (ECM, 1980), adapted the Guggenheim Fellowship recipient's poetry, sung by ...

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L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale)

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Making Ends Meet; Sweeping Up; Chelsea Bells; Some Echoes; Ladies in Mercedes; Hullo Bolinas; I'm Your Pal.

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Steve Swallow/Ohad Talmor Sextet: L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale)

Read "L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale)" reviewed by Jim Santella


Using Igor Stravinsky's “Soldier's Tale" as its model, L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale) combines the depth of Ohad Talmor's symphonic orchestration with the lyricism of Steve Swallow's writing. Composed by Swallow and arranged by Talmor, the seven pieces tell a story. Their innovative sextet takes its audience on a journey through natural landscapes. Dark, ancient ...

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Steve Swallow/Ohad Talmor: L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale)

Read "L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale)" reviewed by John Kelman


When, after first meeting him in '95, tenor saxophonist Ohad Talmor first suggested to bassist Steve Swallow an album interpreting of some of Swallow's material, stating that he “didn't propose to treat [his] material nicely," he was told to “have his way." The result, L'Histoire du Clochard (The Bum's Tale) places some of Swallow's most popular ...

Album

Damaged In Transit

Label: EMC Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Item 1; Item 2; Item 3; Item 4; Item 5; Item 6; Item 7; Item 8; Item 9.


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