Release Date: 08 April 2016
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602547322159
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 08 April 2016
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602547322159
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
A document of a 2012 Japanese solo recital - not only the last in his homeland but the last anywhere - by idiosyncratic improviser Masabumi Kikuchi (1939-2015).
One of the uncategorisable greats, Kikuchi occupied his own musical universe and in his final years was quietly and systematically severing his ties to jazz, drifting instead towards what he called 'floating sound and harmonies', introspective and poetic improvisations. Song forms still sometimes materialized. Kikuchi revisits "Little Abi", a ballad for his daughter, which the pianist once recorded with Elvin Jones. And there is a surprising and very touching version of the wistfully yearning theme from the 1959 Brazilian film Black Orpheus.
Tracklisting
Stanley Cowell Trio; Stanley Clarke; Jimmy Hopps
Paul Griffiths; Jack Quartet
Andy Sheppard; Rita Marcotulli; Michel Benita
Andras Schiff
Enzo Favata
Ayumi Tanaka; Thomas Morgan; Thomas Stronen
Ralph Alessi; Joseph Alessi; Matt Mitchell; John Hebert; Ches Smith
Mick Goodrick; John Surman; Eddie Gomez; Jack DeJohnette
Masabumi Kikuchi