Eberhard Weber - would appreciate some comments
puck
and weber... i hadn't heard of anything by him before so would really
appreciate some comments. this particular title was not available in
amazon.co.uk either. she said she thought it was very beautiful..
puck
"I only want whats the best thing for you
and the best thing for you would be me"
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Skip Elliott Bowman
"puck" <nos...@cf.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> ailsa mentioned she had just bought 'later this evening' with frisell
> and weber... i hadn't heard of anything by him before so would really
> appreciate some comments. this particular title was not available in
> amazon.co.uk either. she said she thought it was very beautiful..
He plays an electric upright 5 string bass (EADGC), has since the 1970s.
Might be the first cat who played anything other than salsa on that
instrument. Brilliant, virtuoso, known for his compositions as well as
his playing.
I have nearly every album he's ever appeared on. "The Following Morning"
accompanies me on all my out of town trips. "Orchestra" is also a
masterpiece, as is "The Colors of Chloe". If you want to hear him as a
sideman, then listen to Pat Metheny's "Watercolors" album or Gary Burton's
"Passengers" albums (both avail. on CD). The latter includes Steve
Swallow--two bassists on each cut, and they never get in each other's way
even though they're both known as soloists.
All atmospherically intense and sparsely eloquent. Don't expect to hear
walking bass, though.
Eric
> ailsa mentioned she had just bought 'later this evening' with frisell
> and weber... i hadn't heard of anything by him before so would really
> appreciate some comments. this particular title was not available in
> amazon.co.uk either. she said she thought it was very beautiful..
Check out his section at http://www.ecmrecords.com
He also did some great work with Gary Burton ("Passengers" rings a bell.)
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type of music. *Absolutely* nothing to do with jazz.
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> ailsa mentioned she had just bought 'later this evening' with frisell
> and weber... i hadn't heard of anything by him before so would really
> appreciate some comments. this particular title was not available in
> amazon.co.uk either. she said she thought it was very beautiful..
>
> puck
I have loved his playing since I first heard it decades ago. He was
trained as a classical cellist, and his approach is a blend of
classical and jazz.
Besides "The Following Morning", I am especially fond of "Yellow
Fields".
He has been working with Jan Garbarek in recent years, but finally has
a new recording of his own (I haven't bought it yet).
Here's a link to an Eberhard Weber site:
http://www.jeffgower.com/weber.html
John B.
Papa Andy
>
>ailsa mentioned she had just bought 'later this evening' with frisell
>and weber... i hadn't heard of anything by him before so would really
>appreciate some comments. this particular title was not available in
>amazon.co.uk either. she said she thought it was very beautiful..
>
>puck
>
He is better as a sideman, not just with ECM but with United Jazz + Rock
Ensemble.
Andy
Mark Bradley
Morning,"Fluid Rustle," "Silent Feet." I think these are among the
very best of anything done on the ECM catalog. Wonderful
sophisticated mood music before "they" bastardized it and started
calling it NewAge. Haven't heard much to get excited about from him
in the last decade or two however... maybe I've missed it.
Mark Bradley
Papa Andy
>
>
>
>Soft-headed mush produced with an excess of electricity. ECMy pink-and-lace
>type of music. *Absolutely* nothing to do with jazz.
>
"Zed's dead baby"
Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction
Top Catt
nos...@newsranger.com says...
"You rotten swines, you! You have deaded me again!"
--Bluebottle [Peter Sellers] in any of a number of Goon Show episodes.
But he always comes back the following week for more of the "dreaded
deading"--just like Zeddy.
T.C.
Mister Zed
Mark wrote:
"NewAge" and "mood music" are probably very good descriptions of what Weber
does, which is *definitely* not jazz; to be fair, though, very little of
what ECM produces is jazz. And last two decades of "no excitement" from his
also seems to be spot on --- and I wouldn't shed any tears about that. (By
the way, isn't there a group for New Age music?)
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> Soft-headed mush produced with an excess of electricity.
An apt self-decription.
John B.