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| | Live at Willisau Jazz Festival | | | Music Artist : | | Aki & The Good Boys;Aki Takase;Rudi Mahall;Tobias Delius;Johannes Fink;Heinrich Kobberling | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Jazzwerkstatt | | Release Date : | | 2009-01-05 | | Store Price : | | $29.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $29.99 | | Usually ships in 3 to 5 days | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Hinz und Kunz
2. Die Nacht der 1000 Töne
3. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
4. Egg of Fire
5. Phantom Power
6. Todays Ulysses
7. Zuviel Publikum
8. Umzug
9. Dreimal Durch
10. City Planning
11. O Blues
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Unclassifiable excellence
Submitted on: 2009-02-02 |
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I bought this CD because I am a big fan of Rudi Mahall who is a great bass clarinet player and Tobias Delius who is equally skilled on the tenor saxophone. But this CD has largely served to introduce me to Aki Takase who is a Japanese pianist and composer who is all over the post bop spectrum of improv music. I have somehow remained oblivous of her even though she has dedicated projects to composers/players that I love,e.g. Fats Waller, Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. Even though she plays with people like David Murray and George Lewis. Even though she seems to be capable of playing and composing in any jazz style from Bebop to Tristano on to completely unstructured improv. Your get the idea. Me idiot, Takase great.
Aki and the Good Boys is a working group that has put out at least one other CD that I have heard of. The group in anchored with the bass work of Johannes Fink and the drums of Heinrich Köbberling. Takase wrote six of the eleven compositions, Mahall four and they drag Wagner in for a short but elegant work out by Takase.
This is a really fine band. They don't have the sheer power of a group like the David S. Ware Quartet but they have incredible wit, skill and variety. If you don't know Delius and/or Mahall, you are in for a treat. They lead their own groups and bring rare intelligence and skill to everything they do. Fink and Köbberling are equal to the challenge of the principals. They are precise, funky and supportive. I would love to hear them in a trio setting where they get to play the part of equals.
Some of the compositions go through startling changes in tone and structure. Today's Ulysses is and example. About the two minute mark it goes into a somewhat Zappaesque section. Then it gets fractured and free and then at about the four minute mark gets slippery and funky.
So this CD was my entrance into Takase's world. It stands alone but I bet it will serve to whet your appetite for more. More Takase, more Mahall, more Delius.
Finally, it should not be priced above $20. If you have trouble finding it for that, drop me an email and I will guide you, pilgrim, along the path.
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