Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016) {Nonesuch 7559-79466-8}
Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016) {Nonesuch 7559-79466-8}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 318 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 125 Mb
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© 2016 Nonesuch Records / Warner / MGP | 7559-79466-8
Jazz / Modern Creative / Avant-Garde Jazz / Beyond Jazz / Trumpet / Guitar
Despite the somewhat misleading title, Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny, trumpeter Cuong Vu has a lengthy history with the legendary jazz guitarist that goes back to Metheny's Grammy-winning 2002 album, Speaking of Now. Since then, Vu has played with Metheny enough that he is a regular part of the conversation when discussing the guitarist's more adventurous contemporary works. Despite his pedigree, having graduated from the New England Conservatory and worked with such luminaries as David Bowie, Myra Melford, Laurie Anderson, and others, Vu is a maverick. A highly gifted, forward-thinking musician, Vu often eschews the more clarion, declarative aspects of his chosen instrument in favor of macabre growls, dampened tones, and improvisatory lines that skitter forth with the mad convulsions of a housefly.
Pairing him with the uber-controlled precision of Metheny might seem like an odd choice at first. A paragon of contemporary jazz, Metheny is known more for his warm tone and clean lines than downtown N.Y.C. edginess. However, he is also a mutative artist whose skills bridge wide stylistic plains from languid folk to swinging post-bop and aggressive fusion. It's also easy to forget that Metheny played on the late Ornette Coleman's 1986 release Song X, an album of frenetic yet deceptively restrained free jazz that works as a useful touchstone for what Vu and Metheny have created here. Joining the trumpeter and guitarist are Vu's bandmates bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Ted Poor. Together, the quartet plays a set of original songs that straddle the line between ambient tone poems, exploratory modal jazz, and punk-inflected noise jams. The opening "Acid Kiss" brings to mind a '70s sci-fi film, with Vu's mournful trumpet setting the tone as the trio straggles in behind him, each note illuminating the dark alien landscape. In warm contrast, "Seeds of Doubt" finds Vu and Metheny playing in tandem, their crisp, pointillist melody soon giving way to a delicately soaring solo from Metheny. Splitting the difference, cuts like "Tune Blues" and "Not Crazy (Just Giddy Upping)" showcase the group's knack for pushing swinging post-bop in explosive, ear-popping directions. Anchored by Takeishi's thick doom bass and Poor's hyper-kinetic drumming, Metheny and Vu wrangle hold of the harmolodic blues of "Not Crazy (Just Giddy Upping)," body slamming each line until the whole sound is less jazz band and more like Ornette Coleman fronting Iron Maiden.
Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016) {Nonesuch 7559-79466-8}
AAJ INFO
Personnel:
Cuong Vu - trumpet
Stomu Takeishi - bass
Ted Poor - drums
Pat Metheny - guitar
tracklist:
01 - Acid Kiss
02 - Not Crazy (Just Giddy Upping)
03 - Seeds of Doubt
04 - Tiny Little Pieces
05 - Telescope
06 - Let's Get Back
07 - Tune Blues
Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015
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Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny / Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny
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Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny / Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny
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==== Log checksum 1EB981F8FF09753F6436C18C4D5F164AB6FD9C7445CCB7ECE1E385C32386C30C ====
Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016) {Nonesuch 7559-79466-8}
Cuong Vu Trio + Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016) {Nonesuch 7559-79466-8}
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