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Recorded September 29, 2005.
Released 2006 by Konnex Records (Germany) KCD 5170
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About the musicians Bruno Angelini was born in Marseille (France) in 1965. From 6 years old until fifteen, he learned classical piano at the conservatory, then he began to be interested in jazz music. He started few years later to study with Guy Longnon in Marseille's conservatory, then with Sammy Abenaïm at the CIM (a Paris school). He also went back to written music and re-studied : Debussy, Bartok, Messiaen...
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Liner Notes This trio recording with Ramon and Bruno and myself is our first and for sure it will not be our last. As I look back to the session I remember the ease with which the music flowed, swayed, swirled, swung and moved from one corner of our collective musical universe to the other. As you listen to this music you will hear this it is self evident, it will be a journey for you as it was and still is for us. There was a lot of joy and fun at this recording session, this is another thing I hear and you will also when we listen to this music. It celebrates our lives our childrens live, it sings it crys, it loves its struggles, it builds bridges between different cultures between different people who did not know each other but needed to. Yes this brings music us together, Merci Bruno Gracies Ramon. Many thanks to Manfred at Konnex records for Continued support of my music. For without him the music would never finds its to the people who need it and want to experience it. Joe Fonda, 18th March 2006 About the musicians | Liner Notes | CD Reviews All liner notes written by Joe Fonda → Overview of all CD/LP reviews and liner notes |
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Bruce Lee Gallanter for Downtown Music Gallery Featuring local contrabass great Joe Fonda, Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez and French pianist Bruno Angelini. The ever exuberant, Joe Fonda, is one of my favorite bassists and I am always amazed by the number of different projects that he is involved with. I just caught the great FAB Trio (w/ Billy Bang & Barry Altschul) up at Guelph and I am consistently knocked by each and every release by the Fonda/Stevens Group (10+ discs), Conference Call (4 CDs) and the Nu Band. Plus Joe can be heard on a half dozen discs by Mr. Braxton. Drummer, Raymon Lopez, has been working with a number of other strong players over the past few years and can be heard on recordings with Ivo Perelman, the National Jazz Orchestra and a great trio with Joelle Leandre & Sophia Domancich. I was not familiar with the pianist, Bruno Angelini, before this, although he has played with Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone and John Betch. Reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2006 Downtown Music Gallery and Bruce Lee Gallanter. About the musicians | Liner Notes | CD Reviews All reviews written by Bruce Lee Gallanter → Overview of all CD/LP reviews and liner notes |
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May 5, 2007, multiple review by Marc Medwin for All About Jazz These two recent trio releases find American bassist Joe Fonda refining his already diverse sonic palette; they present perfect environments in which to do so, as they are delightfully beyond category. Circle the Path opens, surprisingly, with a bit of back masking, setting the stage for a beautifully and hauntingly psychedelic four-and-a-half minutes of slowly arching drone. Fonda's arco work is matched by violinist Jesse Zubot's, with gorgeously varied vibrato from both musicians. "Low Blues" is a case in point, Fonda and Zubot sounding as one instrument, Jean Martin's drums providing rumbling approval. Indeed, each track presents a multitude of textural and compositional twists, "Low Blues" initially more like a Ligeti transcription than a blues. When the down-and-dirty rhetoric does finally kick in, all three players are proven well versed, Fonda and Martin deep inside the pocket, Zubot just that tantalizing bit behind as he evokes all manner of slides, groans and whispers from his instrument. "Next Step", one of the disc's most powerful statements, shows Fonda at his most 'jazzy', as he constructs a slowly building solo that gives way to a fierce gallop, over which Zubot engages slow exoticism with not a hint of parody or pretension. While much of the music on Circle the Path is composed, some of it almost invoking Braxton filtered through Stravinski, Silent Cascade is completely improvised. Even so, the first few minutes of "Perpetual Motion" speak to a unified aesthetic of open exploration, time and pulse suspended, or transcended, in a swirling orchestral vortex, largely of pianist Bruno Angelini's making. Here, Fonda is as much a percussionist as Ramon Lopez, slapping out rhythmic counterpoint to the piano's darkly pastoral arpeggiated hues. Fonda and Lopez interact similarly on "Ephemerals", this time joined in post-Monk territory by Angelini, whose ululations add a layer of enthusiasm to an already exuberant session. In its finest moments, this trio sounds larger than it really is, as with "Dense Crowd"; it is refreshingly difficult to tell which musician is responsible for the perfect placement of each sonic object. Indeed, having Fonda in the fold pushes both groups beyond their already exemplary musicianship and further contributions from these exciting trios are welcome! Reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2007 All About Jazz and Marc Medwin. About the musicians | Liner Notes | CD Reviews All reviews written by Marc Medwin → Overview of all CD/LP reviews and liner notes |
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