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File under: ContemporaryAvant-Garde Jazz
Matthieu Bordenave, Florian Weber, Patrice Moret, James Maddren
The Blue Land
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*2025 stock* For the follow-up of his ECM-leader-debut La traversée, French saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave expands his trio of German pianist Florian Weber and Swiss bassist Patrice Moret with the unique sensibilities of drummer James Maddren, whose unrelenting pulse adds deft counterpoint to the group’s already idiosyncratic sound. Besides the soulfully angular rendering of John Coltrane’s “Compassion”, the quartet tackles eight Bordenave-originals that bridge the gap between chamber-jazz dynamics and post-swing designs. Weber and Bordenave’s oblique approach to their instruments – Bordenave can be heard on both tenor and soprano sax – coalesce seamlessly, spinning unanticipated lines over a highly interactive rhythm section. The Blue Land was recorded in Pernes-Les-Fontaines in 2022, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Details
File under: ContemporaryAvant-Garde Jazz
Cat. number: ECM 2783, 586 2768
Year: 2024
Format
Recorded October 2022
Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines
An ECM Production
℗ © 2024 ECM Records GmbH, München [on O-card back; on tray card]
℗ © 2024 ECM Records GmbH [in booklet]
℗ 2024 ECM Records GmbH [on disc]
Printed in Germany
Release notes
Recorded October 2022 Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines An ECM Production ℗ © 2024 ECM Records GmbH, München [on O-card back; on tray card] ℗ © 2024 ECM Records GmbH [in booklet] ℗ 2024 ECM Records GmbH [on disc] Printed in Germany
Tracklist
| 1 | La Porte Entrouverte | 5:43 | |
| 2 | The Blue Land | 5:21 | |
| 3 | Compassion | 5:32 | |
| 4 | Cyrus | 3:41 | |
| 5 | Refraction | 4:42 | |
| 6 | Distance | 4:01 | |
| 7 | Three Four | 6:04 | |
| 8 | Timbre | 4:41 | |
| 9 | Three Peaks | 4:16 |
Credits
- Fidel Sclavo
- Cover
- Sascha Kleis
- Design
- Patrice Moret
- Double Bass
- James Maddren
- Drums
- Gérard de Haro
- Engineer
- Sam Harfouche
- Photography By [Liner Photos]
- Florian Weber
- Piano
- Manfred Eicher
- Producer [Produced By]
- Matthieu Bordenave
- Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
