The Great Enthusiasms
1. Fails While Daring Greatly 6:05 - 2. Resignation Rag 6:52 - 3. Winner Image 7:51 - 4. Because the Night 7:10 - 5. The Great Enthusiasms 6:14 - 6. King Harvest (Has Surely Come) 3:19 - 7. The 37th Time I Have Spoken 8:29 - Violinist/composer Sam Bardfeld is fearlessly unique and expressive. He is the product of an NYC upbringing in the 70s and early 80s, which was, he says, “both a dysfunctional and fantastic place to grow up, specific in time and place but also typical of the violence and regeneration inherent to America and some of the strange beauty it produces. -- The trio’s music falls somewhere in the overlapping vectors of inside (‘harmony-based’), outside (‘free’) and downtown jazz. Bardfeld has created his own jazz violin language that lies in between the straight-ahead violinists and the free-jazzers.Kris Davis is a perfect foil and it's a little bit of a revelation to hear her brilliance and creativity in all the varied contexts Bardfeld creates. Michael Sarin brings his tremendous gifts for orchestration, musical wit, sympathetic dialogue and overall intelligence. The unusual instrumentation, with no bass, creates extra harmonic and textural space and adds intimacy to Bardfeld's unique compositions. -- The Great Enthusiasms is Bardfeld’s ‘weird America’ record. A reflection on American music in all of its glorious eccentricities, and simultaneously an affirmation that artists must rise up and create and perform, especially in the face of abject political dissoluteness in the Trump era. (Source: record company website) -- Catalog number: BJUR 0064 -- UPC: 888295615143 -- The Amazon ASIN for the mp3 version of this CD is B0756KTTB5 -- Another listing by Zip
Sam Bardfled  (Artist),     Kris Davis  (Artist),     Michael Sarin  (Artist)    &                   0                  more   Format: Audio CD
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