JAZZBO NOTES ESSENTIAL RECORDING
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As far as I know, Eberhard Weber’s recordings with the Colours band are unique in jazz. They are frequently lumped in with the ECM sound or even new age music (?!), but really they exist in their own genre.
The main influence is never blues, but most often a combination of modal jazz, world music, and European classical chamber music.
Charlie Mariano (reeds) and Rainer Bruninghaus (keyboards) have been directed by Weber to avoid the sort of unconscious noodling of automatic harmonic patterns that jazz musicians are often guilty of. They respond with modal solos which develop logically and never sound tossed off.
Like the other Colours releases Silent Feet and Yellow Fields, Little Movements features tunes that develop glacially, although rather than being boring, this development is fascinating, like watching dew settle, revealing the intricate geometry of a spider’s web.
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