What A Day ! (Vinyle LP) / Snorre Kirk

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Opening Night - Palagio Shout - Fontainebleau - Honey - A Thing Like That - One For the Road - Blues Beat - Meditations In Blue What a Day! is the first recording with this new lineup. The quartet is joined on three tracks by Alexander Bouton, who plays rhythm guitar in the style of Freddie Green in the Count Basie orchestra. Like Joe Webb and Giacomo Smith, Alexander Bouton lives in London, where he was a regular at Kansas Smitty's, a bar and concert hall with a house band of the same name, of which Smith was a driving force. The bar has closed its doors, but the music has endured. Snorre Kirk was born in Norway but moved to Denmark with his parents at age 16. His musical career led him to the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, where one of his teachers was Ed Thigpen. As his student says: he couldn't get any closer to the source of swing. "Jazz is still a relatively young art form, yet many people are obsessed with the idea of freezing music into neatly labeled periods – instead of worrying about its quality. We often focus on whether something is 'old' or 'new', and I see no logic in that. The more I listen to music, no matter the style, the clearer it becomes to me that it always comes from somewhere," explains Kirk. What a Day! is Snorre Kirk's eighth recording as a leader. "A Norwegian dandy perched outside the vagaries of time, Snorre Kirk has made the adage 'Less is more' his own. [...] In Giacomo Smith (alto sax) and Joe Webb (piano), both alumni of the Kansas Smitty's House Band, Kirk has found obvious accomplices: if they look back, it is not to flee the present, but to better enchant it." L-J.N. – Télérama Sortir