John Blum - Nine Rivers (2023)
John Blum - Nine Rivers (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 165 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 Mb | 00:47:31
Avant-Garde Jazz, Piano Jazz | Label: ESP-Disk
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 165 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 Mb | 00:47:31
Avant-Garde Jazz, Piano Jazz | Label: ESP-Disk
The most well-informed aficionados of NYC's jazz avant-garde speak of pianist John Blum with reverential respect, yet his discography is shockingly small for someone with a three-decade career: five albums as a leader, four as a sideman. Blum studied piano with seminal avant-gardist Cecil Taylor and ambidextrous master Borah Bergman, and it shows, yet his style at its most intense is more thickly textured than even theirs, and fully individualistic. Blum's left hand recalls James P. Johnson: energy, power, rock-solid rhythm driver of the improvisation's engine. And speaking of engines, some of Jimmy Yancey's locomotive motion is there as well. Blum is actually a very melodic player, but the melodies are short and fast and may not be repeated more than once, so that's not the quality that the average listener might take away from the experience. Nonetheless, in a 20-minute solo improvisation, he creates enough catchy motivic material that a dozen or more songs could be woven from it. Another of Blum's teachers was Milford Graves; they share the sense of music as a journey to a higher understanding and a life-altering and life-enhancing practice. Blum looks more like an athlete than a musician, but then, the way he plays piano is athletic and requires a lot of muscle and stamina. The power of the concert performance on this album (performed collaboratively with video) is a revelation. "Explosive Pianism!" –Nate Chinen, New York TimesTracklist:
01. First River
02. Second River
03. Third River
04. Fourth River
05. Fifth River
06. Sixth River
07. Seventh River
08. Eighth River
09. Ninth River
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