“Reckon” is a new release of “Intakt Records”. An album was recorded by “Jim Black Trio” – it’s Elias Stemeseder (piano), Thomas Morgan (bass) and Jim Black (drums). Three featured jazz masters are experimentating on various cases of musical language – their music usually has an exclusive and bright sound filled with interesting investigations, astonishing sonoristic experiments, strange timbres, evocative ideas and original ways of improvising. All the music is formed on the main fundaments of avant-garde jazz – bright, dynamic and unpredictable free improvisation, innovative experimental jazz, European and American jazz streams, modern and contemporary jazz styles and its intonations are the main compounds of it.
“Reckon” is filled with inspiring, dynamic and driving sound. The compositions are based on open form and free improvisation. The music is dynamic and changing all the time – stable relaxing solos related to cool, abstract free improvisations filled with the main basics of avant-garde jazz are connected to complicated, bursting, expressive and dynamic tunes of bebop, post bop, hard bop and other modern jazz styles. The musicians are switching between furious, bright, explosing and unpredictable free improvisation and dynamic, expressive, vital, sweet, sometimes romantic and light mainstream, contemporary and modern jazz and its main basics. Pianist Elias Stemeseder creates a remarkable, bright and expressive melody line. Here terrific riffs, dramatic risings, breaking sessions, tremendous culminations fused together with flowing ornaments, transcendental passages and strange timbres. An intense illustrative texture is created and accompagnies all the time the main melody line filled with sparkling riffs, luminous culminations, hot spills, full blasts, bursting thrills and sonoristic experiments. These episodes are contrasting to light, romantic and peaceful episodes related to mainstream, contemporary jazz or cool. These episodes written in meditative, romantic or lyrical mood, consist of solemn fragile pieces, deep haunted darkness, minimalistic pieces, repetitive series and subtle abstract improvisations. A pianist manages to create a multi-colorful, passionate and bright melody line. Abstract free improvisations filled with surprises and strange timbres colored by astonishing sonoristic experiments, special effects and eclectic stylistic fusions – that’s the base of bass line. Thomas Morgan is fusing together ascetic repetitive series, monotonous riffs, dark ambient, ubtle solemn pieces which are suddenly rising up to struggling attacks, sharp rigorous riffs, remarkable vital melodies contrasting to heavy dark solos – his bass is vital, active and dynamic, hysteric and scandalous, or sometimes romantic, sweet and lyrical. An universal, strong and bright rhytmic section leaded by Jim Black is based on all kinds of rhythms gently brought together – from stable beats, relaxing cool to expressive complicated bebop, aggressive splashing hard bop, unpredictable post bop and finally rising to striking attacks, breaking sessions, impressive free improvisations and wild culminations. Here the reflection next minute is changed by drive and energy, fragility goes with passionate, frantic, vibrant and perturbating riffs or calms down to meditation and relaxation. The music of this album has inspiring, bright, driving and dynamic sound.
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