Ivo Perelman - Soul

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:16
Size: 129,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:47)  1. Metaphysical
(8:03)  2. Crossing
(7:03)  3. Eyound
(4:59)  4. Fragments
(4:34)  5. Belvedere
(5:03)  6. Landscape
(8:06)  7. Soul
(5:51)  8. Joy
(6:46)  9. The Unknown

One might approach this album as though it were an extension of the Perelman/Shipp duo recording, Corpo, made one week earlier.  It would not be appropriate to think that there is an historical jazz relationship at play here between Body (Corpo) and Soul there is no audible reference in the music to this possibility and it would hardly be appropriate to musicians who do not use ‘written’ notes.  What is true is that the addition to the duo of Bisio and Dickey rounds out their music with the addition of shades and tints and grain. There are distinctly different moods and swings through the music, but these are not intentionally drawn.  They are discovered or brought into being as the music develops, rather than being ‘borrowed’ from a composer’s sheet music and this produces a tranquil air in which these four musicians are heard to be entirely contented with each other and within themselves, even when in perpetual commotion. ‘Joy’ (Track 8) is particularly redolent of this, the saxophone being steered by the bass through the drummer’s ricochets and towards the doggedness of the piano, relentlessly pursuing the horn’s accompaniment.  In full improvisational mode, the quartet settles into poised extemporisation in which bass and drum effortlessly balance the comings and goings of the piano and saxophone. The improv is luxurious and it seems as though any individual in the band can take the place of another, such are their articulations.  They ‘read’ each other non-stop. http://www.jazzviews.net/ivo-perelman---soul.html

Personnel:  Ivo Perelman, tenor saxophone; Matthew Shipp, piano; Michael Bisio, bass; Whit Dickey, drums.

Soul

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