Gilad Atzmon - In Loving Memory Of America
Friday, February 27, 2009
Enja/Tiptoe TIP888 850-2 ****Gilad Atzmon (as, ss, clt), Frank Harrison (p, ky), Yaron Stavi (b), Asaf Sirkis (d) plus the Sigamos String Quartet, Huw Stephen, Emil Chakalov (vln), Rachel Robson (vla) and Daisy Vatalaro (clo). Rec. date not statedLike the best of albums, In Loving Memory Of America works on many levels. Ostensibly it’s a re-imagining of Charlie Parker’s iconic releases with strings. Some of the tracks are done reasonably straight: the opening ‘Everything Happens To Me’ welcomes (seduces?) us in, but swiftly ‘If I Should Lose You’ comes under assault from a scrape of strings, a broken piano chord, a military march… this is Parker (or rather an image of Parker) re-contextualised for our world of shock and awe.
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