Aki Takase & Daniel Erdmann - Ellington [VINYL]
Aki Takase & Daniel Erdmann - Ellington [VINYL]
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Berlin-based Japanese pianist Aki Takase and saxophonist Daniel Erdmann, who was awarded the prestigious SWR Jazz Prize in autumn 2020 shortly before Lockdown, first met in the mid-90s when Takase was teaching improvisation at the Berlin Musikhochschule 'Hanns Eisler', where Daniel Erdmann was studying at the time. Subsequently, Aki Takase invited Daniel Erdmann to play in her sextet, which consisted of some of the most outstanding musicians of the Berlin scene of the 90s, such as Rudi Mahall and Tony Buck. In 2000, Daniel Erdmann received a scholarship from the German-French Cultural Council and moved to Paris - this initially ended the collaboration with the style-defining pianist, who received the SWR Jazz Prize in 2002. 15 years later, Aki Takase and Daniel Erdmann, who had been living in Reims in the Champagne region for many years, met by chance at the Paris airport. There they agreed to finally play together again. In the same year, they formed the quintet 'Japanic', which released the album 'Thema Prima' in 2019. The two began their duo collaboration in 2019 and intensified it during the first lockdown caused by Corona in the spring of 2020. Daniel Erdmann, at home in Reims, Aki Takase in Berlin, rehearsed from then on every Wednesday for a quarter of a year together via Zoom. Despite the restrictions and the technical pitfalls, they both say, the whole thing had one good thing: complete concentration on the project. Then, when a small window of opportunity to travel opened up in the summer, they both met in Budapest to record an album over three days at BMC Records' Budapest studio in early August. Shortly before the recording in the Hungarian capital, the two played a streaming concert at the Berlin club A-Trane, which was recorded by public broadcaster RBB (see the video below). A French concert premiere already took place in November 2019 as part of the Jazzdor Festival in Strasbourg. About this concert, Bruno Pfeiffer wrote in the jazz blog of the newspaper Liberation: 'Complex chords and sovereign melodies together with a complicit balance, where the protagonists cross the finish line hand in hand like two runners. In the end, we leave the duo with the urge to dance'. At the beginning of June 2021, Aki Takase and Daniel Erdmann were awarded the inaugural German Jazz Prize.
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Berlin-based Japanese pianist Aki Takase and saxophonist Daniel Erdmann, who was awarded the prestigious SWR Jazz Prize in autumn 2020 shortly before Lockdown, first met in the mid-90s when Takase was teaching improvisation at the Berlin Musikhochschule 'Hanns Eisler', where Daniel Erdmann was studying at the time. Subsequently, Aki Takase invited Daniel Erdmann to play in her sextet, which consisted of some of the most outstanding musicians of the Berlin scene of the 90s, such as Rudi Mahall and Tony Buck. In 2000, Daniel Erdmann received a scholarship from the German-French Cultural Council and moved to Paris - this initially ended the collaboration with the style-defining pianist, who received the SWR Jazz Prize in 2002. 15 years later, Aki Takase and Daniel Erdmann, who had been living in Reims in the Champagne region for many years, met by chance at the Paris airport. There they agreed to finally play together again. In the same year, they formed the quintet 'Japanic', which released the album 'Thema Prima' in 2019. The two began their duo collaboration in 2019 and intensified it during the first lockdown caused by Corona in the spring of 2020. Daniel Erdmann, at home in Reims, Aki Takase in Berlin, rehearsed from then on every Wednesday for a quarter of a year together via Zoom. Despite the restrictions and the technical pitfalls, they both say, the whole thing had one good thing: complete concentration on the project. Then, when a small window of opportunity to travel opened up in the summer, they both met in Budapest to record an album over three days at BMC Records' Budapest studio in early August. Shortly before the recording in the Hungarian capital, the two played a streaming concert at the Berlin club A-Trane, which was recorded by public broadcaster RBB (see the video below). A French concert premiere already took place in November 2019 as part of the Jazzdor Festival in Strasbourg. About this concert, Bruno Pfeiffer wrote in the jazz blog of the newspaper Liberation: 'Complex chords and sovereign melodies together with a complicit balance, where the protagonists cross the finish line hand in hand like two runners. In the end, we leave the duo with the urge to dance'. At the beginning of June 2021, Aki Takase and Daniel Erdmann were awarded the inaugural German Jazz Prize.
Track Listing
In a Sentimental Moon
Caravan
Perdido
African Flower
in a Mellow Tone Don't Get Arround Much Anymore
It's Bad to Be Forgotten
I'm Beginning to See a Strange Light
Come Sunday
Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
I Let a Song Go out of My Heart
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- Product Type: Vinyl
- Barcode: 767522985115
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