Joachim Kuhn Voodoo Sense (CD)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Voodoo SenseCondition: NewFormat: CDDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Whether playing together with greats of classical jazz such as Stan Getz, Joe Henderson and Michael Brecker, with American and European members of the avant-garde such as Ornette Coleman, Michel Portal and his own brother Rolf Kühn, with world musicians like Rabih Abou-Khalil, young tearaways like Michael Wollny and Adam Baldych or even in a highly reputed Bach project with the St. Thomas Boys' Choir of Leipzig, whether performing solo or in a big band Joachim Kühn loves surprising encounters. This love is reinforced by his new ACT album "Voodoo Sense", on which he once again acts as a catalyst, bringing together people and their music that had previously inhabited entirely different spheres and in doing so fusing together the past, present and future. Old sparring partner Archie Shepp plays on three tracks and a hand-picked team of African percussionists and singers joins the trio of Kuhn, the Moroccan guembri, oud virtuoso and vocalist Majid Bekkas, and the Spanish percussionist and drummer Ramon Lopez. Highly expressive, expansive solo improvisations join with the power of lumbering Afro-Arabic rhythms, giving rise to a new, trance-like jazz. REVIEW Joachim Kühn, celebrated elder statesman of German jazz piano, and US sax legend Archie Shepp have collaborated before (on 2011's Wo! Man), and the latter puts in three appearances on this more world-jazzy Kühn programme also featuring Moroccan guembri maestro and vocalist Majid Bekkas and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez (Kühn's regular sidekicks), plus a raft of African traditional musicians. The famous John Coltrane vehicle Kulu Sé Mama is a solemn aria for vocals, languid sax and rolling drumwork that becomes a floating jazz shuffle, then a feverish dance. Shepp shifts with typically gruff graciousness on tenor sax from sumptuous deep-ballad warmth to explosive multiphonics on the rhapsodic L'eternal Voyage, and also appears for the title track, in which he begins with an almost Charles Lloydian tentativeness against the glowing sound of the balafon, and begins shrugging and blurting his way through the ensuing percussion-bustling shuffle. Kühn's subtle touch, steely power and textural imagination dominate the last third of the session, on the initially brooding Crossing the Mirror and the heartracing Firehorse, the most focused episodes on an unruly but uplifting set. --The GuardianGenre: JazzArtist: Joachim KuhnNo Of Discs: 1Record Label: ActEAN: 0614427955524 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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