Uri Caine - Solitaire
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Artist: Uri CaineEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Music Label: Winter & Winter
Soundtracks:
- Say It in French
- As I Am
- Roll On
- Sonia Said
- Beartoes
- Inhaling You
- Hamsin
- Solitaire
- The Call
- Snort
- All the Way - Uri Caine, Cahn, Sammy
- Twelve
- Blackbird - Uri Caine, Lennon, John
- Anaconda
- Country Life
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Free Music Review: Jazz Elephant.....
Hit: 5 Stars
You know the story of the blind men and the elephant, where each blind man thought an elephant was like a wall, like a rope, like a spear, like a sail, like a tree, depending on which part of the elephant he happened to have gotten hold of? Uri Caine's music is like that.
Caine is a volcanically creative musical thinker who also happens to have spectacular keyboard technique. You may get to know him first from his work as a sideman with Don Byron on the popular Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz; or (as I did) on Bug Music, one of the best CDs of the 1990's; or with Dave Douglas (The Infinite; Soul on Soul); or from his uncannily beautiful adaptations of Gustav Mahler for a hybrid jazz ensemble; or from his reimagining of Bach's Goldberg Variations; or from his own small-group recordings like Blue Wail, or the excursion into Latin-flavored jazz called Rio; or even (like a singer I met) through his charming, complex soundscape of the 1910's and 1920's, The Sidewalks of New York. Get the idea?
But even though I know his recorded music well, and have seen him perform, this CD was a revelation to me. It contains fifteen solo piano pieces, the shortest about two and a half minutes and the longest a little more than six. All but two are originals. This is not easy music by any means, but it is beautiful, virtuosic, and rich; after many listenings it continues to reward attention. I love "Sonia Said": the first eight bars take a yearning, three-note, V-shaped motif through several keys in quick succession, very much like the first movement of A Love Supreme; the second eight form a phrase that tries to resolve but fails heartbreakingly, then tries again and succeeds. I also love to hear Caine channelling Bud Powell in "Beartoes"; and the episode in "Country Life" where he travels higher and higher up the keyboard, and then, when he can go no higher, signals the end of the solo by breaking into triplets, like tying the bow on a package.
The best way to approach this album may be by starting with tracks ten through fourteen. First listen to "Snort," a good-natured neo-stride romp, as if James P. Johnson had worked with Thelonious Monk's chord vocabulary; then "All The Way," a Jimmy Van Heusen showtune through the looking glass. Then comes the even more abstract, almost Webern-like "Twelve"; and finally a joyous "Blackbird," yes, the Beatles tune, which sounds as though it's going to get a music-box-like, almost childlike treatment, before it heads for the open road. That's just a little more than 18 minutes out of your life, but it's more music than you get on several CD's by all but a handful of jazz musicians. I hope you'll buy this album and enjoy it; but you will have encountered only one little part of this fascinating musician's creativity.
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