BASS AND BONES
The good Tune
Fully anchored in modern jazz is trombone player Steen Hansen and bassist Mads Vinding’s duoprojekt, which evidently is called Bass & Bones. When you begin a CD with a short version of Alex North’s love theme from Kubrick’s film Spartacus and simply let’s Vinding imply what the chords contain, you know that here the musicians have chosen to follow only one way – the one that leads to the good melody, plain and simple. The Spartacus theme is so good that not much more can be done, but fortunately something can be in done the other themes, most of them from the Great American Songbook.
Both musicians pour out of their great melodic surplus which cements the reputation of Vinding and reminds us once again that Danish jazz in Steen Hansen has a trombonist, who has the ability to create original melodic sequences, that hasn’t been heard since the now now semi-retired Torolf M’s heyday in the 1960s. Hansen plays with both slide and valves and I can sometimes have doubts as to when he uses what. It should be a compliment to the instrumentalist Hansen.
By: Peter H. Larsen-Information 23. September 2009
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Lim Fjord Porter and French fries
Steen Nikolaj Hansen & Mads vinding: Bass & Bones (Bro Recordings) it is like a lim Fjord Porter and a plate of crispy French fries. It tastes diabolically good, but is not something you see on the menu in either the grill or the restaurant. Trombone or trombone together with a double bass is also not commonplace on the jazz scene. Fortunately, there are musicians who are not to be controlled.
Bassist Mads Vinding has previously made duo records as e.g. the Bassduo cd together with Jesper Lundgaard in 2002 or “Together” from 1998 together with Bob Brookmeyer. The last one falls in the same rare category as the current cd, the difference is that Brookmeyer plays valve trombone and Steen Nikolaj Hansen on the current record plays valve trombone. Mads Vinding and Steen Hansen know each other from DR Big Band. Here they played together from the mid-1980s. The idea of this record grew out of their friendship . Hansen has arranged the tunes that open up for interplay and new musical paths. When two musicians from the Jazz elite meet and make such a pronounced con amore project, you as a jazz nerd are already turned on before you hear a sound. But does it hold all the way? Of course, it does. There is not so much at stake for both gentlemen. They dare play up to each other, challenge and not least use a lot of musical humor. Steen Nikolaj Hansen has written a single number for the record. The rest is taken from the standard jazz repertoire, but there has also been room for tunes like a terrific version of the title melody of the old film Spartacus and Tom Harrell’s Sail away. Otherwise, you’ll find more well-known cases like “It might as well be spring” and “You don’t know what love is”. The record can be strongly recommended for the Jazzconnoisseur who thought he/she had heard everything. But also for the happy jazz listening crowd the record is useful as a soundtrack for a visit to the kitchen, where French fries – perhaps with a home-touched spicy mayo are made ?
by Niels Overgård-Jazznyt.blogspot.dk
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Bass and Bones
Download “Bass and Bones” here
1 Spartacus
2 It might as well be spring
3 Sail away
4 You don’t know what Love is
5 3 Flowers
6 All The things you are
7 Glockamora
8 Polkadots and Moonbeams
9 That Old Black Magic
10 Bass and Bones
11 When I fall in Love
12 But Not for me
BASS AND BONES
The good Tune
Fully anchored in modern jazz is trombone player Steen Hansen and bassist Mads Vinding’s duoprojekt, which evidently is called Bass & Bones. When you begin a CD with a short version of Alex North’s love theme from Kubrick’s film Spartacus and simply let’s Vinding imply what the chords contain, you know that here the musicians have chosen to follow only one way – the one that leads to the good melody, plain and simple. The Spartacus theme is so good that not much more can be done, but fortunately something can be in done the other themes, most of them from the Great American Songbook.
Both musicians pour out of their great melodic surplus which cements the reputation of Vinding and reminds us once again that Danish jazz in Steen Hansen has a trombonist, who has the ability to create original melodic sequences, that hasn’t been heard since the now now semi-retired Torolf M’s heyday in the 1960s. Hansen plays with both slide and valves and I can sometimes have doubts as to when he uses what. It should be a compliment to the instrumentalist Hansen.
By: Peter H. Larsen-Information 23. September 2009
____________________________________
Lim Fjord Porter and French fries
Steen Nikolaj Hansen & Mads vinding: Bass & Bones (Bro Recordings) it is like a lim Fjord Porter and a plate of crispy French fries. It tastes diabolically good, but is not something you see on the menu in either the grill or the restaurant. Trombone or trombone together with a double bass is also not commonplace on the jazz scene. Fortunately, there are musicians who are not to be controlled.
Bassist Mads Vinding has previously made duo records as e.g. the Bassduo cd together with Jesper Lundgaard in 2002 or “Together” from 1998 together with Bob Brookmeyer. The last one falls in the same rare category as the current cd, the difference is that Brookmeyer plays valve trombone and Steen Nikolaj Hansen on the current record plays valve trombone. Mads Vinding and Steen Hansen know each other from DR Big Band. Here they played together from the mid-1980s. The idea of this record grew out of their friendship . Hansen has arranged the tunes that open up for interplay and new musical paths. When two musicians from the Jazz elite meet and make such a pronounced con amore project, you as a jazz nerd are already turned on before you hear a sound. But does it hold all the way? Of course, it does. There is not so much at stake for both gentlemen. They dare play up to each other, challenge and not least use a lot of musical humor. Steen Nikolaj Hansen has written a single number for the record. The rest is taken from the standard jazz repertoire, but there has also been room for tunes like a terrific version of the title melody of the old film Spartacus and Tom Harrell’s Sail away. Otherwise, you’ll find more well-known cases like “It might as well be spring” and “You don’t know what love is”. The record can be strongly recommended for the Jazzconnoisseur who thought he/she had heard everything. But also for the happy jazz listening crowd the record is useful as a soundtrack for a visit to the kitchen, where French fries – perhaps with a home-touched spicy mayo are made ?
by Niels Overgård-Jazznyt.blogspot.dk
Bass and Bones
Download it here
1 Spartacus
2 It might as well be spring
3 Sail away
4 You don’t know what Love is
5 3 Flowers
6 All The things you are
7 Glockamora
8 Polkadots and Moonbeams
9 That Old Black Magic
10 Bass and Bones
11 When I fall in Love
12 But Not for me