- Class Trip (album)
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Class Trip Studio album by John Abercrombie Released 2004 Recorded February 2003 Genre Jazz Length 72:03 Label ECM Producer Manfred Eicher John Abercrombie chronology Cat 'n' Mouse
(2000)Class Trip
(2003)The Third Quartet
(2006)Class Trip is an album by guitarist John Abercrombie with violinist Mark Feldman, bassist Marc Johnson, and drummer Joey Baron recorded in 2003 and released on the ECM label[1]
Contents
Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "On Class Trip, the bandmembers come together fully and build on that concept with such beauty and grace that they sound as if they've been playing together all their lives. The sheer subtle intuition that guides these proceedings is breathtaking... This band is concerned only with the articulation and expression of a musicality that lies not in the obviousness of its contributors' considerable musical gifts as jazz improvisers, but in the sheer nuanced elegance of an ensemble whose blurring of traditions under the rubric of improvisation makes the group not only compelling but brilliant. Abercrombie's compositions for this band are the most adventurous and graceful of his long career; as a unit, the quartet is a band without peers that plays a music whose challenge is only eclipsed by its accessibility and singular language".[2]
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [2] Track listing
- All compositions by John Abercrombie except as indicated
- "Dansir" - 9:31
- "Risky Business" - 7:38
- "Descending Grace" - 8:56
- "Illinoise" (John Abercrombie, Joey Baron, Mark Feldman, Marc Johnson) - 5:35
- "Cat Walk" - 7:55
- "Excuse My Shoes" - 8:28
- "Swirls" - 6:06
- "Jack and Betty" - 3:39
- "Class Trip" - 7:29
- "Soldier's Song" (Béla Bartók) - 3:02
- "Epilogue" (Abercrombie, Baron, Feldman, Johnson) - 3:37
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- Recorded at Avatar Studio in New York in February 2003
Personnel
References
- ^ ECM discography accessed October 25, 2011
- ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed October 25, 2011
Categories:- ECM Records albums
- John Abercrombie albums
- 2004 albums
- Albums produced by Manfred Eicher
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