Solos - The Jazz Sessions - John Abercrombie & Greg Osby.

Format:

Video

Series:

Solos - The Jazz Sessions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States and Canada.

Americans.

Musical performances.

Jazz music.

Local Subjects:

United States and Canada.

Americans.

Musical performances.

Jazz music.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (49 minutes)

Other Title:

John Abercrombie & Greg Osby - Solos - The Jazz Sessions

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

When the late guitarist John Abercrombie was attending the Berklee School of Music between 1962-’66, he studied heavily, listened intently, practiced vehemently and overcame the urge to retreat to his own six-string sanctuary. Thankful thing. He ended up becoming one of jazz’s most recognizable and adventurist guitarists. He enjoyed a profoundly successful career as a leader almost exclusively for ECM Records. At the time of his 2012 quartet album Within a Song, I talked with him at his upstate New York house about he and his saxophonist Joe Lovano doing a duet version on the standard “Flamenco Sketches”— soloing above and below each other. “We’re not comping,” he told me. “We’re playing together without stepping on each other’s toes. It’s more of a commentary.” A few years earlier Abercrombie met up with alto saxophonist Greg Osby for a duet concert on the jazz series “Solos The Jazz Session,” produced by Daniel K. Berman and recorded in a studio at Berkeley Church in Toronto, Canada. He could have easily said then that there were no stepping on each other’s toes as the pair creates quiet and mesmerizing improvisations. Osby had played briefly with Abercrombie 19 years earlier, but they slipped right back into the chemistry, as Osby says in one of the interview interludes, “an awareness of where the music can possibly go.” They both swim in “unfamiliar waters” of listening and responding to the unorthodox styles each artist delivers. They admit there are a lot of risks within a duo setting, but as Abercrombie says, “I don’t know what [Greg] is thinking, but I respond to what he’s playing.” The guitarist and alto speak free music that is intimate and unique. Dan Ouellette

Notes:

Performed Berkeley Church Studio

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