Daniel Carter, William Parker, Federico Ughi
The Dream
live this Friday December 14th 2012
2 sets 8:30pm and 9:30pm
$10
Ibeam
168 7th Street Brooklyn, New York 11215
listen here https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-dream/id152777262
Daniel Carter / William Parker / Federico Ughi: The Dream
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Florence Wetzel on All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21847#.UMSVHoWk9u0
577 Records is putting out some of the most interesting improvised music today, and The Dream is yet another high quality offering. Featuring the trio of Daniel Carter, William Parker and Federico Ughi, the CD is an embarrassment of riches, bursting with music of great imagination played with the highest skill and intention....
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Daniel Carter, William Parker, Federico Ughi
The Dream
live this Friday December 14th 2012
2 sets 8:30pm and 9:30pm
$10
Ibeam
168 7th Street Brooklyn, New York 11215
listen here https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-dream/id152777262
Daniel Carter / William Parker / Federico Ughi: The Dream
by
Florence Wetzel on All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21847#.UMSVHoWk9u0
577 Records is putting out some of the most interesting improvised music today, and The Dream is yet another high quality offering. Featuring the trio of Daniel Carter, William Parker and Federico Ughi, the CD is an embarrassment of riches, bursting with music of great imagination played with the highest skill and intention.
Carter and Parker are mainstays of improvised music, and Carter is one of the most important instrumentalists on the avant-garde scene. It hardly seems possible for one person to excel on so many instruments, yet Carter does so with ease—an ease that comes only from decades of hard work. The Dream includes the rare treat of Carter playing piano, and he shines particularly on "This is the Dream"; his playing is forceful and crystalline, his runs intricate and rollicking, with Parker and Ughi matching him every step of the way.
Other notable songs include "Little Did I Know," where Carter starts with a gentle flute, then gradually turns up the heat and at the very end switches to sax, his tone clear as a bell. "The Truth in the Core," which features Parker on tuba and Carter's wild, wailing sax, is also memorable. On the lovely "Spiritual Awakening," Carter plays trumpet, invoking Miles at first and then developing his own urgent message, complimented by Ughi's rhythmic stickwork.
The Dream has a wonderful cohesiveness, and it's the kind of CD that gets into your bones the more you listen. The fourteen pieces vary in length, several barely grazing two minutes, but they roll effortlessly one after another, shifting instruments and colors with absolutely no loss of fluidity. The result is a pleasing quilt of sounds, textures and moods that's well worth exploring.
Track Listing: This Is the Dream; Little Did I Know; 6 1/2 Billion; Showering of Gifts; The Truth in the Core; Never Before; Zero Softly; The Traditionalist!; Sea Soul; Spiritual Awakening; Stillness; Notorious; Life Beyond Death; Tempting Faith.
Personnel: Daniel Carter: alto and tenor saxophones, trumpet, flute, clarinet, piano; William Parker: bass, tuba, shakuhachi; Federico Ughi: drum
Daniel Carter / William Parker / Federico Ughi: The Dream
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Troy Collins on All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22633#.UMSVYYWk9u0
The Dream features the first recorded example of multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter playing piano. While this revelation is impressive enough, the album itself is a fascinating and endlessly rewarding listen. Ably accompanied by bassist William Parker and drummer Federico Ughi, Carter demonstrates remarkable facility on a half-dozen different instruments in settings ranging from sober to tumultuous.
Opening the album with "This Is the Dream" Carter reveals a piano technique reminiscent of fellow avant gardists Cecil Taylor, Dave Burrell and Don Pullen. His turn at the keyboard emphasizes rousing pointillistic urgency and methodical development. His kinetic, hyper-linear attack is underscored by the rhythm section's relentless, throttling undercurrent.
Equally intriguing is the presence of bassist William Parker playing tuba on a number of tunes. On the blistering "The Truth in the Core," Parker stutters out dense, brassy pedal tones while Ughi whips up a stirring, percussive frenzy. Carter wails away on his brusque tenor, heaving split tones with abandon. "Notorious" features the same instrumentation, this time a sumptuous swinger, with Parker blurting out walking patterns as Ughi provides casual swing that Carter uses to spin melodious variations on his tenor sax. The piece concludes in a genteel conversation between tenor and tuba.
"Life Beyond Death" proves the most unique combination. Carter's pneumatic piano duels with Parker's expressive, breathy tuba. Ughi drives the two with a lumbering, fractious rhythm, intensifying it as the piece progresses until it explodes in a maelstrom of loping, circuitous piano refrains and blustery tuba incantations.
But Parker doesn't abandon his main instrument completely. He generates considerable heat on "The Traditionalist!," a solo exploration of the expressive qualities of the bowed bass. Likewise, Ughi summons an energy level similar to Rashied Ali's infamous performance on Coltrane's Interstellar Space on "6 1/2 Billion." Parker spawns a pulverizing flurry of notes on his upright to keep pace, while Carter spirals out taut alto phrases of biting intensity.
"Spiritual Awakening" is a roiling feature for Carter's trumpet. Ughi slowly generates an increasingly turbulent undertow while Parker bleats out contrapuntal tuba lines, Carter's horn defiantly soaring overhead, executing vigorous fanfares. "Little Did I Know" begins as a reflective flute meditation. Building gradually to a swinging middle section, the piece ends with Carter briefly switching to trumpet for authoritative closing statements before the tune fades out.
A number of these pieces fade in and out, obviously edited down from longer excursions. The abrupt edits are the only downside to the album, but they indicate that a second volume may not be far behind.
With an exceptionally high level of group interaction and a judicious combination of lengthy improvisations and short interludes, The Dream is a marvelously diverse representation of these three musicians' multifarious talents. This remarkable achievement should be required listening for those in search of inventive free improvisation.
Track Listing: This Is the Dream; Little Did I Know; 6 1/2 Billion; Showering of Gifts; The Truth in the Core; Never Before; Zero Softly; The Traditionalist!; Sea Soul; Spiritual Awakening; Stillness; Notorious; Life Beyond Death; Tempting Faith.
Personnel: Daniel Carter: alto and tenor saxophones, trumpet, flute, clarinet, piano; William Parker: bass, tuba, shakuhachi; Federico Ughi: drums.
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