Clean Feed Records: CF361CD
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/product/dobbeltgaeenger/
* Julie Kjær : alto saxophone
* John Edwards : double bass
* Steve Noble : drums
http://www.juliekjaer.com/
http://www.kjaer3.org/
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/medwards.html
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mnoble.html
Dobbeltgænger
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbeltg%C3%A6nger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_(dualit%C3%A9)
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger
Recorded by Alex Ward at Vortex Jazz Club, London,
England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, on 13th January 2015.
http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/julie-kjaer-3-steve-beresford-rachel-musson/
Reviews
By Eyal Hareuveni
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2016/04/julie-kjr-3-dobbeltgenger-clean-feed.html
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/the-free-jazz-collective-julie-kjaer-3-dobbeltgaeenger-%C2%BD/
The discography of Danish, London-based alto sax player Julie Kjær is
unfortunately quite slim. Her last solo album with her Danish Kvartet was
released seven years ago (Baglæns Ind I Det Forkerte Rum, Gateway, 2009). She
collaborated with the all-women chamber jazz Pierette Ensemble (Akrostik,
Gateway, 2014) and in a yet-to-be-recorded free-improvising trio of tenor sax
player Rachel Musson and cellist Hannah Marshall, Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit
(2015 and Ana, PNL, 2016) and the London Improvisers Orchestra.
Dobbeltgæenger is the album that can mark Kjær as a sax hero to reckon
with. Her trio feature one of the greatest rhythm sections around, the
free-improv veterans double bass player John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble,
whose list of collaborations with sax players only encompasses legends as Peter
Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Alan Wilkinson and Lol Coxhill. Kjær 3 was
recorded at the Vortex club in London on January 2015.
Kjær has a distinct sound of her own, edgy and opinionated, full of intense
energy, often extended with her breathing techniques. For this recording, she
wrote five pieces and the other is a trio improvisation. All the pieces suggest
a wise and nuanced approach, matching sounds with rhythm. The opening piece,
“Out of Sight”, is a masterful demonstration of fast-shifting rhythmic
dynamics, from a playful pulse to abstract and subtle free-improvised segments,
without losing the focused interplay. “Face” and “Dear Mr. Bee” offer an even
tighter rhythmic form, cemented by Edwards' exemplary driving role, played on
the bow on the latter. Both pieces enable Kjær and Noble to elaborate on the
rhythm with surprising and arresting ideas. “Alto Madness” highlights Kjær's
inventive and commanding play of extended breathing techniques which are
transformed into a playful, humorous chase between all three musicians. The
trio free-improvisation “Pleasantly Troubled” suggests a more restrained and
contemplative spirit, where they construct and deconstruct the tension
patiently and yet still with great rhythmic focus. The last title-piece (in
Nordic mythology dobbeltgæenger is a ghostly double who precedes a living
person and is seen performing their actions in advance) is the most open-ended
piece, stressing the highly personal and always searching vocabulary of these
three gifted musicians and their immediate interplay, wisely sketching a moving
texture that attaches more colors and nuances.
Brilliant.
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By Derek Taylor
http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/143431401636/julie-kj%C3%A6r-3-dobbeltg%C3%A6nger-clean-feed
By Grego Applegate Edwards
http://www.gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com/2016/06/julie-kjaer-3-dobbeltgaenger-with-john.html
By Tim Owen
http://www.dalstonsound.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/julie-kjaer-3-dobbeltgaeenger/
By Ken Waxman
http://www.jazzword.com/one-review/?id=129151
Marek Zając (pl)
http://www.multikultiproject.blogspot.com/2016/05/julie-kjaer-3-julie-kjaer-john-edwards.html
Jan Granlie (no)
http://salt-peanuts.eu/record/julie-kjaer-3/
Niels Overgård (dk)
http://www.jazznyt.blogspot.com/2016/04/julie-kjr-3-dobbeltgnger-clean-feed.html
Par Guillaume Belhomme (fr)
http://grisli.canalblog.com/archives/2016/09/10/34302379.html
