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Searching the Blue
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Tracks: Leuchtet ein Titel auf, bitte klicken und den Song anhören.
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Musiker:
Steve Klink - Klavier |
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Über "Searching the Blue", songwriting and Iowa Folk artists:
[klick hier für offizielle Searching the Blue info] In the Midwest of America where I grew up you can hear singer/songwriters in local bars and coffee shops everywhere, performing mostly solo, accompanying themselves on guitar. During my childhood in Iowa I heard singer/songwriters of all possible tastes and abilities. There is nothing more satisfying than hearing a great live performance of a well-written, freshly conceived song by a talented singer/songwriter. I always liked Greg Brown especially, and to hear him in duo with Bo Ramsey was just magical. So try to imagine this new CD Searching the Blue as a singer/songwriter performance. Only instead of a one-man voice and guitar show it is performed by a classic "jazz" piano trio. There are folk songs, some blues songs but instead of rock 'n' roll there are some Bugaloos and Gospel Shouts, a little Bebop and plenty of swing. Each piece of music is more of a song than a composition. It tells a simple story, without words. Some songs are extremely simple but some are much longer with more complicated forms. But no matter how long a form becomes (for example, "A Minor Thing" or "Askin'") the basic building blocks are still single folky ideas. This was the original idea behind Searching the Blue. This is why I like to call the music on this CD Folkbop and not Jazz. Mehr über "Searching the Blue"
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Notes:
ii) Peri's Winkle Blues recorded October 11th, 2002 live in Quasimodo Jazz Club, Berlin Tracks 2-12 recorded on May 19th and December 11th, 2003 in Topaz studio, Köln, mixed May 7th, 2004 and mastered February 7th, 2006 by Reinhard Kobialka. iii) Starting Over is a country fugue that develops into a blues. iv) Figurin' a Question is a 4-voice bass canon. v) St. Emmanuel Shout was written for the congregation of St. Immanuel Church in Cologne-Longerich where we have played every ascension day (Christi Himmelfahrt) for the last 10 years. vi) For Hartmut. vii) Also translated as: "...upward beyond the constant flow there was moondling. (Xul Solar translates it succinctly: upward, behind the onstreaming it mooned - Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones, 1962 Grove Press, English translation, page 23.)". viii) A Minor Thing recorded October 20th, 2005 live in Loft Jazz Club, Köln. |
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Folkbop and the Midwest Gospel Re-Soulution
Steve wusste schon immer, dass er Musik schreiben würde. Die weitläufigen Prärien seiner Jugend waren
die Palette, auf der er immer wieder neue Eindrücke zusammenmischte. Als Kind bereiste er mit seinen
Eltern Ost- und Westeuropa, bevor er erst nach Boston, dann nach New York zog.
Folkbop ist also eher eine Mischung der Folkelemente des traditionellen Jazz: Blues, Soul, Gospel
und sogar Swing, gemeinsam mit Hardbop und Bebop. All dies kombiniert mit der Folk Musik des Mittleren
Westens.
Die Vielfalt an Eigenkompositionen auf Searching the Blue ist eindrucksvoll. Eine vorzügliche Mischung
von Down-Home Blues, sinnliche Balladen, zischenden Up-Tempos, Kanon-, Fugen- und Gospelelementen. Dies
repräsentiert den Höhepunkt von vielen Jahren harter Arbeit.
In Europa war die Resonanz auf Steves Musik gewaltig. Der deutsche Steve Klinks Musik ist bleibend. Searching the Blue entführt den Zuhörer auf eine Reise durch das romantische Zeitalter der reichen amerikanischen Musiktradition und durch die Geschichte des Folk.
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