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ESCREET JOHN - "Do not Fight The Inevitable "(2010) by Freddiejazz.

British pianist John Escreet is a gifted young musician whose reputation as a composer and instrumentalist continues to grow. DO NOT FIGHT THE INEVITABLE, his second album leadeur after the spirited CONSEQUENCES (published by Post Tone in 2008), the company presents the cream of musicians from New York, around a downright exciting. The music he offers here is a contemporary jazz that is both intense and complex, with this very unique and very identifiable shape melodic lines without necessarily reconsider interactions between the various components of speech. In short, there was a surprising, invigorating, and totally unexpected. Somehow, the piano playing is between that of Herbie Hancock (for science harmonies, flowing melodic lines, the complexity of the agreements) and Cecil Taylor (for contemporary look, the speech délinéarités The work on dissonance).

Favoring the configuration of any acoustic quintet, pianist nevertheless offers music that, in essence, is the opposite of post-bop revivalism so dear to Wynton Marsalis and Roy Hargrove. The quintet is almost identical to that of CONSEQUENCES, except that the drummer Nasheet Waits Tyshawn Sorey replaces . Waits is asked everywhere. After his tenure at Fred Hersch, Dave Douglas then Jason Moran (it is now part of the trio of the latter), drummer slips effortlessly into the line-up, composing a pair with outstanding rhythmic bass Matt Brewer (which was already heard on the side of Gonzalo Rubalcaba) . The rhythm is so strong, flexible, offering breathtaking reminders.

saxophonist David Binney

Currently, the craze for the pianist's least in Europe, seems limited, and that's a shame. A jazzman friend told me recently that his music was "too cerebral". Personally, I do not want to see go the way of pianist Brad Mehldau , by engaging in commercial projects and syrupy, drained of their essence, which is far from being the case here. Because only casually, the style of percussive pianist, his notes and clear beaded comparable Falls Lake Victoria, or on a creek lost in the wilds of Montana, offers a dizzying imagination. One might add that his style is a successful combination, a summary brought to perfection between bop, modal and free jazz. Also, walks are clear and beautiful to cry (her duet with absolute saxophonist David Binney , "Gone But Not Forgotten " track 7) deserves its own acquisition of this cake that I put Jazz among the greatest achievements of the year 2010).

The other beaches show a surprising vitality. Creation as I see fit. Music by John Escreet illuminates a musical personality, which, far from emerging as a monolithic, may prove better than ever in its fluidity and mobility, and an attraction to the mystery, as in Wayne Shorter . In the title track, "Do not Fight the Inevitable", for example, the offender, the art of dissolver boundaries, with its fashion, Borders in respect of the invention, the route of travel is strictly shortérien. The game, far from superfluous vagrancy, gave the impression that the thought of each musician is inseparable from the movement (" Soundscape", "Civilization on Trial ). The sense of drama is magnified here by musicians at the top of their art: David Binney on alto sax, Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet (the trumpeter never looked so brilliant, his style, his sense of space and height recall from far and near, as is the sorcerer black , Miles Davis ...), while both give incredible relief this music that is far short of the beaten track, this disc demonstrates a rhetoric that is both original and unheard, whose wording seems accomplished and in form and substance. Masterpiece.

Here's a video of the quintet Lars Dietrich (alto sax) performing " Gullin brust " Escreet with John at the piano, which gives us a solo of a high technical level:

Escreet John "Do not Fight the Inevitable" (Tone in Post, 2010)

1. Civilization On Trial 8:40
2. Do not Fight the Inevitable 11:47
3. Soundscape
3:10 4. Chemical Magic (For the Future) 12:48
5. In the Charlie Parker
3:49 6. Disorder and Activity
7:41 7. Gone But Not Forgotten 2:50
8. World avaricious 10:09