Andre Canniere: Coalescence
Author: Selwyn Harris
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Musicians: |
Hannes Riepler (g) |
Label: |
Whirlwind |
Magazine Review Date: |
March/2014 |
Catalogue Number: |
WR4642 |
RecordDate: |
March 2013 |
This is the follow up to the trumpeter-composer's standout 2012 debut also on bassist Michael Janisch's prolific Whirlwind label, with one change in personnel: the leading young UK pianist Ivo Neame replaces another upcoming one, George Fogel. Canniere premiered the album last October and his confident command of the stage and dark-hued stadium jazz improvs wowed the audience on the biggest stage at Kings Place at the Whirlwind Festival. A New Yorker who has been living in the UK since 2008, Canniere's compositions contrast breezy folky jazz elements with a darker harmonic language that draws from Radiohead and a rawer rock-ish groove-based approach straight out of the New York alt jazz scene. While Neame finds a tasteful place for his imaginatively sculptured impressionism within these compositions, Riepler adds his own twist on post-Miles atmospheric jazz-rock. Carriere's trumpet playing on the other hand treads a path somewhere between the Celtic folk of Colin Steele, Kenny Wheeler and the more soaring, fiery edge of a Dave Douglas or Christian Scott. The debut was perhaps a tad stronger thematically, but Coalescence sees some all round improvements collectively.

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