
‘Andando el Tiempo’ by Carla Bley Review: Big Force in a Small Group, Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2016 ^ Allmusic Favorite Jazz Albums of 2016.Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80, The New York Times", May 10, 2016 Pitchfork Review, Pitchfork, May 21, 2016 "Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow: Life Goes On". "Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow". Andando el Tiempo Review All About Jazz, April 26, 2016 Andando el Tiempo Review All About Jazz, May 6, 2016 Writing music can be a way to cheer yourself up." As quoted in " Carla Bley's jazz journey" by Jane Rocca, The Sydney Herald, accessed 17 July 2018 When you're friend is boozing away it's a horrible, hopeless situation. ^ "A friend of mine was going through addiction problems and it was a first-time experience for me to really witness that up close.^ ECM Catalogue accessed July July 16, 2016.Andy Sheppard – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone.Her typical quirk is slightly subsided for something much deeper and more intimate" Pitchfork 's Seth Colter Walls said "At 80 years of age, she remains an individual-and still composes like a born melodist, too". Bley isn’t a flamboyant soloist instead her style pushes the music gently into new realms." In JazzIz, Lean Crowley stated "Her playing on Andando el Tiempo is, arguably, better than ever. their rapport is easy to hear there are few unaccompanied solos, and most of the interplay sounds intuitive and spontaneous rather than composed. Bley’s intimate music, and it features superb, reserved performances in a trio setting featuring two longtime collaborators. The Wall Street Journal 's Martin Johnson called the album "'a showcase for Ms. īley's playing was noted by Cormac Larkin of The Irish Times who said "it is Bley the pianist who seems particularly liberated by the different arrangement, and the playing – from a woman who once described herself as 1 per cent player, 99 per cent composer – is moving and starkly lyrical". While she has mastered all characteristics of musical narrative, here she has minimized the levity and occasional excesses in favor of warmth and class. The All About Jazz review by John Kelman said it was "an album of largely introspective music that shares much with its predecessor, but also acts as a flip side of the same coin" and credited the producer stating "Eicher's own ear for detail renders both Trios and Andando el Tiempo as more sonically open, with greater clarity across the layers produced by these three players.and the room in which they recorded, live, without any baffling or separation Another review by Karl Ackerman stated "the collection is as fine a small-group recording as Bley has produced in her career. Writing in The Guardian, John Fordham observed "A more personal, private and succinct album than its predecessor, Trios, it’s just as captivating, and inconceivable in the hands of anyone else". Many reviews compared it to the trio's previous release. They also selected it as one of their Favorite Jazz Albums of 2016. Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars and said it was "a delicately passionate, classically influenced set" and that "Ultimately, it's that shared intensity, born out of the trio's decades-long partnership, that makes Andando el Tiempo such an engaging listen". In The New York Times, Nate Chinen called the album "Chamberlike and willowy, suffused with melancholy, it reflects her sly noncompliance with jazz and classical conventions, which has been a prevalent theme of her half-century career".
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