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Steve [1] [Jazz Bassist] Swallow, Cikada String Quartet, Steve Kuhn
So There
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Classical

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Oh No, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
2. Names, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
3. Here Again, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
4. Ambition, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
5. Indians, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
6. from Histoire de Florida, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
7. Sufi Sam Christian, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
8. Later, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
9. from Wellington, New Zealand / from Eight Plus, for voice, piano, strin - Steve Swallow,
10. Miles, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
11. Just In Time, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
12. Return, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
13. Echo, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
14. Sad Advice, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
15. Riddle, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
16. Blue Moon, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
17. I Know a Man, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass
18. A Valentine For Pen, for voice, piano, string quartet & bass - Steve Swallow,

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CD Details

All Artists: Steve [1] [Jazz Bassist] Swallow, Cikada String Quartet, Steve Kuhn, Robert Creeley
Title: So There
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: ECM Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 11/7/2006
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Classical
Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 602517004948

Synopsis

Album Description

So There is Steve Swallow's music for string quartet, piano and electric bass - inspired by and featuring the poetry of Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005), one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. The album is a unique and hugely enjoyable synthesis of words and music, and includes Creeley's last recordings before his untimely death. Swallow recorded Creeley reading his poems in upstate New York, wrote new music around the poet's speech rhythms, then flew to Oslo to complete the project with Steve Kuhn and the Cikada String Quartet. Delivering one of the great performances of his life, pianist Steve Kuhn shows the broad range of his technique, from intensely melodic invention to free swirling sound masses, inspired by Swallow's string quartet writing and the laconic readings of Creeley.

CD Reviews

This is a treasure on several fronts

o dubhthaigh | north rustico, pei, canada | 02/07/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Most notably, it presents Robert Creeley reading some of his memorable verse with sympathetic and imaginative accomapniement from Steve Swallow and his colleagues. This sin't Alan Ginsburg riffing with beatnick music, but two artists that are trying to get under the surface of each other's talents and shake the kaleidoscope up a bit. Largely, it all works. You will never listen to this at a party - it's something for your own soul, late at night when you are alone.

In that regard it puts me in mind of two other very moving collaborations: the CD by Liam O Flynn and Seamus Heaney from the mid-90's that evokes not just rural Northern Ireland, but that very essential Celtic Twilight that seems to enchant the soul; and the collaboartion among Bryan Murphy and Padraig Mc Giolla, with musician Breege Costello, called Ceolta na Sidhe - a Gaelic effort between Murphy and and Mc Giolla with incredibly haunting effects generated by Ms Costello.

In any case, that poetry and improvisational music should combine in a double helix is no surprise. That it continues to do so so effectively is a wonderful treat for the human soul in this troubled times."

This is what it's all about

Pollo Poulet | New York United States | 03/23/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If I were to say only one thing here- it would be my recommendation that you get a copy of this magnificent CD for your own. You'll thank yourself for it! This is deep and beautiful and touching. I haven't enjoyed or been moved by music and words this way in a very long time. Steve Swallow is a genius. Steve Kuhn has never sounded better, the strings are perfect and Robert Creeley truly had his finger on it. This is the human condition played to perfection. I'm buying it many times over to give to friends."