Michel Petrucciani, In a Sentimental Mood, Storyville ****

New in the 1 Love Track of the Day spot is a slice of Ellingtonia from the much missed pianist Michel Petrucciani (1962-1999) one of Europe's greatest ever jazz pianists, and veritable little giant of the music playing the Duke's 'In a Sentimental …

Published: 24 Jul 2022. Updated: 20 months.

New in the 1 Love Track of the Day spot is a slice of Ellingtonia from the much missed pianist Michel Petrucciani (1962-1999) one of Europe's greatest ever jazz pianists, and veritable little giant of the music playing the Duke's 'In a Sentimental Mood' drawn from the September release Solo in Denmark. The French pianist was famously credited with persuading Charles Lloyd out of retirement while the hippie jazz eminence was living in an extended deep seclusion in Big Sur - years after his historic 1960s triumphs with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack De Johnette. Hitherto unreleased the recording dates to 1990. The venue was a Silkeborg church - Silkeborg is less than 50km from Aarhus. Petrucciani's treatment is thunderingly expansive and generous. Its magic sweepingly lingers long. The image, top, contains a detail from the Storyville cover art

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Dave Liebman, Pat Metheny, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, 'Water: Giver of Life' Arkadia ****

Nobody steps into the same river twice/The same river is never the same/Because that is the nature of water - Derek Mahon, 'Heraclitus on Rivers' New in the 1 Love spot, choosing one track at a time to spend time on, a reissue and drawn from The …

Published: 22 Jul 2022. Updated: 20 months.

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Nobody steps into the same river twice/The same river is never the same/Because that is the nature of water - Derek Mahon, 'Heraclitus on Rivers'

New in the 1 Love spot, choosing one track at a time to spend time on, a reissue and drawn from The Elements - Water: four masters at play that is more than the sum of their considerable parts. The geat saxist Lieb - Dave Liebman (Miles Davis, Joe Lovano) - here with an incredible band drum deity Billy Hart (who made jazz history as Jabali on Mwandishi), guitar icon Pat Metheny - Still Life (Talking), Secret Story, Song X, Ornette Coleman, David Bowie: wondrous last year on Side-Eye NYC V1. IV - and the icing on the cake rarely heard on records these days bass don Cecil McBee (Dream Weaver, Forest Flower, Journey in Satchidananda and meshing well with Hart in The Cookers). A ballad - Metheny playing acoustic, Lieb ultimately delicious on soprano sax later against very open rhythms all in all truly a heart to heart that engrosses to the end and back again.