Lars Danielsson/ Verneri Pohjola/ John Parricelli: Trio review – wine chateau sessions mingle mature sensibilities

When ACT boss  https://www.actmusic.com/en/siggi-loch" rel="nofollow - Siggi Loch  asked the three European musicians who created this glowing collage of folksy melodies, Latin-grooving and freely roaming improvisations for their three favourite jazz records, they all included one by Keith Jarrett. These singular artists aren’t Jarrett mimics, but see the piano giant as a transitional bridge between the American and European jazz cultures that had shaped their respective soundworlds for years.

Swedish bassist/composer Lars Danielsson, former  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/17/reinvention-of-big-band" rel="nofollow - Loose Tubes  UK guitarist John Parricelli and lyrical Finnish trumpeter  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/01/verneri-pohjola-pekka-review-finnish-trumpeter-jazz-rock" rel="nofollow - Verneri Pohjola  came together at ACT’s invitation to record in the warm and woody acoustic of an old Bordeaux wine chateau – Danielsson and Parricelli as old friends, Pohjola as a newcomer who fitted the all-acoustic bill. Maybe they didn’t know that much about wine, but they knew plenty about mingling long-matured musical sensibilities. Danielsson’s Cattusella begins with a gliding guitar line over a muscular bass hook, before Pohjola’s caressingly lustrous trumpet sound arrives. Playing With the Groove is a Latin-hooky dance with Pohjola in nimble muted-Miles mode over Parricelli’s urgent strumming, while La Chanson d’Hélène (a Danielsson adaptation of the theme from the 1970  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/26/guardianobituaries.filmnews" rel="nofollow - Claude Sautet  movie Les Choses de la Vie) opens as a romantic dreamscape before the appropriate entry of the composer’s quick-stepping pizzicato and Pohjola’s quivering trumpet improv.

Pohjola sounds exquisitely like a casually humming voice on the Duke Ellington classic Mood Indigo, and L’Époque is Danielsson’s interpretation of a Debussy solo-flute piece that melts into Pohjola’s multiphonic upper range. A standout is the trio’s version of the  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jan/17/ron-sexsmith-30-minutes-interview" rel="nofollow - Ron Sexsmith  hit Gold in Them Hills, played as straight as the composer’s version (once recorded with Coldplay’s Chris Martin) but with a take on its emotional resonance unique to this trio.

from The Guardian