Release Date: 29 June 2009
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602517881372
Genres: Jazz
Description
One of the founders of Weather Report celebrates the creative spirit of that famous and influential group in a blazingly inventive recording.
Miroslav Vitous was one of the founders of Weather Report and helped to shape its early (and revolutionary) mix of enigmatic, free-flowing compositions and high-level improvisational dialogues, in which all the instruments enjoyed parity. It is this formative period that Miroslav salutes with his all-acoustic band and some phenomenal playing.
The obvious musical empathy between Vitous and drummer Gerald Cleaver is a joy, Ambrosetti and Campbell contribute inspired solos - as does legendary guest Michel Portal, another iconic figure in the history of the music, on bass clarinet. Material, almost exclusively from Vitous's pen, alludes to Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti" and to Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" - as well as to Miles Davis and Antonín Dvorák, and also pays tribute to Jow Zawinul.
The Czech bassist had huge critical and popular success with his last two albums for ECM, 'Universal Syncopations' and 'Universal Syncopations II'.
Personnel: Miroslav Vitous (double-bass), Franco Ambrosetti (trumpet), Gary Campbell (tenor saxophone), Gerald Cleaver (drums), Michel Portal (bass clarinet)
Tracklisting
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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
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Mick Goodrick; John Surman; Eddie Gomez; Jack DeJohnette
Miroslav Vitous Group
