Every Note Is True Ethan Iverson

• 1 The More It Changes 01:18
• 2 The Eternal Verities 05:56
• 3 She Won't Forget Me 04:06
• 4 For Ellen Raskin 04:50
• 5 Blue 03:26
• 6 Goodness Knows 04:40
• 7 Had I But Known 02:36
• 8 Merely Improbable 03:30
• 9 Praise Will Travel 03:32
• 10 At The Bells And Motley 09:06
• Total Runtime 43:00

Info for Every Note Is True

Pianist und Komponist Ethan Iverson kennt man als Gründer und Mitglied des einflussreichen Jazz-Trios The Bad Plus, sowie von einer ganzen Reihe Alben unter eigenem Namen, darunter „Temporary Kings“ mit Saxophonist Mark Turner (ECM Records, 2018). Jetzt gibt Iverson sein Blue Note-Debüt mit dem bemerkenswerten Album „Every Note Is True“ und seinem meisterhaften neuen Trio mit dem Bassisten Larry Grenadier und dem legendären Schlagzeuger Jack DeJohnette. Das Album ist eine Gelegenheit für den Pianisten, auf seine eigene Musikgeschichte zurückzublicken und sie zu erweitern, vom Pop/Rock-beeinflussten Jazzstil von The Bad Plus hin zu überraschenden neuen Facetten. Das Album beginnt mit „The More It Changes“, aufgenommen mit einem virtuellen Lockdown-Chor von 40 befreundeten Menschen, um dann mit neun Trio-Aufnahmen die ganze Bandbreite dieser aufregenden neuen Formation auszuloten.

Ethan Iverson, Klavier
Larry Grenadier, Bass
Jack DeJohnette, Schlagzeug

Ethan Iverson
(composer, arranger, piano) was a founding member of The Bad Plus, a game-changing collective with Reid Anderson and David King. The New York Times called TBP “…Better than anyone at melding the sensibilities of post-60’s jazz and indie rock.” During his 17-year tenure, TBP performed in venues as diverse as the Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, and Bonnaroo; collaborated with Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, and the Mark Morris Dance Group; and created a faithful arrangement of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and a radical reinvention of Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction. Iverson also has been in the critically-acclaimed Billy Hart Quartet for well over a decade and occasionally performs with an elder statesman like Albert “Tootie” Heath or Ron Carter. In 2017 Iverson co-curated a major centennial celebration of Thelonious Monk at Duke University, and in 2018 premiered an original piano concerto with the American Composers Orchestra and released a duo album with Mark Turner on ECM.

Larry Grenadier
As one of the most admired, accomplished bassists working in jazz today, Larry Grenadier has created an expansive body of work in collaboration with many of the genre’s most inventive, influential musicians – from early days playing with sax icons Joe Henderson and Stan Getz to what has been decades performing alongside pianist Brad Mehldau, from extended experiences working with the likes of Paul Motian and Pat Metheny to co-leading the cooperative trio Fly (with Mark Turner and Jeff Ballard) and quartet Hudson (with John Scofield, John Medeski and Jack DeJohnette).

Jack DeJohnette
Widely regarded as one of the great drummers in modern jazz, Jack DeJohnette has a wide-ranging style that makes him a dynamic sideman and bandleader. He has played with virtually every major jazz figure from the 1960s on, including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, and Abbey Lincoln. His versatility on the drums is accented by DeJohnette's additional accomplishments as a keyboardist: he studied classical piano for ten years before taking up drums.

In his early years on the Chicago scene, DeJohnette was active with the premiere musician organization, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, whose members included Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, and Joseph Jarman. In 1966, he drummed alongside Rashied Ali in the John Coltrane Quintet. However, he became more widely known as a member of Charles Lloyd's band, where he first began playing with pianist Keith Jarrett. In 1968, he recorded his first album as a leader, The DeJohnette Complex, on which DeJohnette doubled on melodica.

The second major association of DeJohnette's early career spanned the years 1969-72, when he performed with Miles Davis' first fusion band. Davis gave a nod to DeJohnette in his autobiography, Miles: "Jack DeJohnette gave me a deep groove that I just loved to play over." Besides allowing him to play alongside such stellar musicians as Dave Holland, Chick Corea, and John McLaughlin, the Davis years also increased DeJohnette's session work.

DeJohnette began leading several groups in the early 1970s, including Compost, Directions, New Directions, and Special Edition, featuring a diverse gathering of musicians including David Murray, Eddie Gomez, Chico Freeman, John Abercrombie, and Lester Bowie. Since the 1980s, while continuing to lead his own projects and bands, DeJohnette has also been a member of the highly acclaimed Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette trio. DeJohnette has continued to record and perform on keyboards, releasing albums such as Zebra, a mesmerizing synthesizer/trumpet duo with Lester Bowie featuring African music influences. He further explored his interest in African music in a 2005 duet with noted Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso.

In 2005, DeJohnette launched Golden Beams Productions, an independent record label "as an outlet for the broad range of creative projects." The label garnered DeJohnette a Grammy Award for Peace Time, on which he is both featured artist and co-producer. He has composed soundtracks for both television and video, and has received numerous awards including the French Grand Prix du Disque in 1979. In 1991, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from the Berklee College of Music. DeJohnette is the winner of numerous DownBeat magazine "Drummer of the Year" critics' and readers' polls, and JazzTimes magazine's reader polls for "Best Drummer."

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