Description
'Eternal Voices' celebrates the 50th year anniversary of Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach meeting, playing and recording music together. They chose to use short but very powerful masterpieces of classical music from Bach to Schoenberg as a format for improvisations.
David Liebman is considered a renaissance man in contemporary music with a career stretching nearly fifty years. He has played with masters including Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, McCoy Tyner and others; authored books and instructional DVDs which are acknowledged as classics in the jazz field; recorded as a leader in styles ranging from classical to rock to free jazz. He has performed on over 500 recordings with over 200 as a leader/co-leader featuring several hundred original compositions.
Richard Beirach the US jazz pianist and composer, Beirach began working with Stan Getz in 1972. He also worked with Chet Baker. Beirach has maintained an ongoing musical partnership with David Liebman from the late-1960s to the present in the groups Lookout Farm and Quest. In addition, Liebman and Beirach have frequently performed and recorded as a duo. Several of Beirach's compositions - "Leaving" and "Elm", for instance - have found their way into the jazz standard repertoire.
Personnel: Dave Liebman (soprano and tenor saxophone, C-Flute), Richie Beirach (piano)