Amaryllis
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2001-05-22
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Voice From The Past
- Amaryllis
- Requiem
- Conception Vessel/Circle Dance
- Voices
- December Greenwings
- Silence
- M.E.
- Rounds
- Avatar
- Morpion
- Prayer
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Free Music Review: Exquisite modern jazz piano trio.
Hit: 5 Stars
With so many wonderful albums, I think I may be developing a near fanboyish attitude about ECM. This is a haunting, emotional, and spellbinding work of delicacy, sensitivity, and beauty. With my admittedly limited jazz knowledge, I was familiar with the names Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, having some grasp of what they had done in their careers (especially with piano trios). Marilyn Crispell was a new name to me, and I am inexorably bound to say she is a new favorite. Learning that Crispell is a huge admirer of the avant-jazz titan Cecil Taylor suggested to me that this would be more aggressive and 'wild.' While Crispell does display some of Taylor's percussive, scattershot style, she internalizes it with her own feeling of lyricism and effeminate sensuality. Her use of chords is, dare I say, more 'traditional' (in an "out there" kind of way) and emphasizes great space to paint vast canvases of dramatic, soulful lyrical ideas. This is an album of slow, spacious texture, and mood and harmonic interplay are accentuated above other factors. Yet, while highly emotional and stirring, there is not a single moment that is not highly evolved musically. The best of both worlds. The album consists mostly of compositions from the three players, with four slow, exquisite improvisations: the title track, "Voices", "M.E.", and "Avatar". The improvisations, which, in Crispell's words, brought "the revelation of the session," are astoundingly beautiful with a tender poise and exceptional sympathy that belies their improvisational nature. That is a testament to the closely knit telepathic connection of this trio. The bass and drums are not so much complements to Crispell but partners in a creation that relies on all their acumen. Pay close attention to Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. The musical interaction is arrayed for the trio in a way that makes their interplay very complex, balancing at once a two-way response to both the piano and their rhythmic counterpart. Signals are transmitted through the notes and musicians respond with the optimum choices. Of course you know it is beautifully recorded (ECM, remember), so I can say this is pretty much a perfect album. Not a wasted second, not a wasted note. Very highly recommended.
Amaryllis Poster
Three-way streets aren't often as alluring as Amaryllis, on which pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Paul Motian intersperse pieces freely improvised in the studio with original compositions from their illustrious pasts. Following up Nothing Ever Was, Anyway, their revelatory album of Annette Peacock compositions, they continue to spring surprises with their heady romanticism and stylistic escapism. Crispell, who built her reputation as a fire-bringing follower of Cecil Taylor and bandmate of Anthony Braxton, here places beauty before complexity, sculpting elliptical ballads and folk-dance-style tunes into shimmering meditations. Even during its quietest moments, the music is rhythmically alive, propelled by Peacock's seductive pulse and Motian's ever-active, airily aggressive strokes. The album, named after a rare flower, flags a bit around the halfway point, but quickly rallies. This is lovely, stirring, enrapturing music, performed by artists having one of the best conversations of their lives. --Lloyd SachsJazz Music CDs
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