Angelika Niescier, Christopher Tordini, Tyshawn Sorey - The Berlin Concert (2018)

Angelika Niescier / Christopher Tordini / Tyshawn Sorey
The Berlin Concert
2018 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 305
http://www.intaktrec.ch/305-a.htm
https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/the-berlin-concert



* Angelika Niescier : alto saxophone
* Christopher Tordini : bass
* Tyshawn Sorey : drums

http://www.angelika-niescier.de/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/christopher-tordini-mn0002608290
http://www.tyshawnsorey.com/

Recorded live by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)
at Berliner Festspiele / Jazzfest Berlin,
Berlin, Germany, on November 3, 2017.

Reviews

By Tim Niland
https://jazzandblues.blogspot.com/2018/05/angelika-niescier-berlin-concert-intakt.html

Polish born saxophonist Angelika Niescier was awarded the 2017 German Jazz
Prize, as "one of the most interesting musicians on the European jazz scene."
This level of praise is well deserved considering the playing on this album
which has her in the august company of Tyshawn Sorey on drums and Chris Tordini
on bass, presenting a concert took place after she received the award. The
three musicians create a unique sound that emerges from their musical curiosity
and attention to detail. "Kundry" opens the album in fine fashion with bright
and choppy saxophone leading the trio into a brisk and exciting
performance. The instruments are very well integrated and the trio works
fluidly as a team with igneous streams of saxophone porting forth matched by
bursts of percussion and thick, powerful bass playing. Their collective
improvisation is bracing and powerful, with raw exclamations met by sharp
interplay, embracing new challenges presented by the music, weaving inside and
outside, between form and freedom. The group follows with "Like Sheep, Looking
Up" where they have an interesting melody to begin with, which is then
developed in the direction of a free form exploration. The playing is intricate
and shows real depth, with the bass and drums developing a complex and
fascinating rhythm that Niescier can engage with or soar over at will, allowing
the the drama of the music to unfold in a natural and organic manner. On stage
the group has clearly developed a very strong rapport, with intuitively
knowledge about how the improvisation should proceed, as dark toned and gritty
saxophone meeting stoic bass and kinetic percussion in an impressive
approach. There is a quiet and thoughtful bass solo, before the group returns
to the original melody to conclude. "5.8" moves into more abstract territory
with subtle bowed bass and saxophone layering sounds and building patterns in
the air with soft percussion folding into the mixture. The music is very free
and unrestricted, drifting with brushed percussion and searching saxophone
showing also endlessly curiosity about how music and open space can
coexist. The group returns to a collective uptempo setting for "The Surge" as
colorful saxophone comes bursting forth with ripe bass and drums in
support. This is a very fast and exciting performance, a long uptempo
collective improvisation that shows the group at their best. The leader's
saxophone playing is thrilling, as she romps through the music with
unrestrained joy, and the improvisation is unpredictable and rhythmically
dexterous as the performance develops in a freewheeling formation, with ample
solo space for bass and drums which allows the musicians to make dynamic
adjustments on the fly.

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Intakt Records
http://www.intaktrec.ch/rev305-a.htm

By Derek Taylor
http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/174179911045/angelika-niescier-trio-the-berlin-concert

By Troy Dostert
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-berlin-concert-angelika-niescier-intakt-records-review-by-troy-dostert.php

By avantscena
https://avantscena.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/angelika-niescierchristopher-tordinityshawn-sorey-the-berlyn-concert-live-intakt-2018/

Klaus Nüchtern (at)
https://www.falter.at/falter/rezensionen/musik/730/7640120193058/the-berlin-concert

Por Tiago Ferreira (pt)
https://namiradogroove.com.br/blog/jazz/angelika-niescier-henry-threadgill-peggy-lee

Da Aldo Del Noce (it)
http://www.jazzconvention.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3778:angelika-niescier-christopher-tordini-tyshawn-sorey-the-berlin-concert&catid=2:recensioni&Itemid=11

Por «el intruso» (es)
http://elintruso.com/2018/05/04/el-trio-de-angelika-niescier-con-registro-en-vivo/