Hommage à Eberhard Weber

Hommage à Eberhard Weber
Live album by Eberhard Weber
Released September 11, 2015
Recorded January 23–24, 2015
Venue Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Genre Jazz
Length 69:45
Label ECM
ECM 2463
Producer SWR /ECM
Eberhard Weber chronology
Encore
(2007)Encore2007		 Hommage à Eberhard Weber
(2015)

Hommage à Eberhard Weber is a live tribute celebrating German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber's 75th birthday recorded by the German public broadcaster SWR in Stuttgart in 2015 featuring Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, Gary Burton, Scott Colley, Danny Gottlieb, Paul McCandless, with Michael Gibbs and Helge Sunde conducting the SWR Big Band which was released on the ECM label.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
All About Jazz[4]
The Guardian[5]
The Irish Times[6]

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states, "Weber witnessed this concert from the seats; he was by all accounts not only pleased, but moved. This is an understandable response to Hommage à Eberhard Weber, which not only proves an exception to by-the-numbers tribute recordings, but stands as a daunting, creative, and enduring extension of the bassist's work".[3] On All About Jazz, John Kelman said "Weber is not just all over this record in the various compositions that have been drawn from nearly his entire career, arranged for a series of guests and the SWR Big Band, but he is actually heard—and, for those fortunate enough to have been there, seen— performing in the form of archival video recordings played on a large screen hung above the stage: video samples, then, rather than merely audio samples ... Hommage à Eberhard Weber honors Weber in a way that both appreciates and respects ... and couldn't be a more perfect tribute—or a more perfect gift—to this uniquely talented and influential bassist/composer".[4] The Guardian's John Fordham stated "Weber's sparing themes and subtle tone-poetry are perhaps better suited to small bands than orchestras, but there's a lot of heartfelt and often beautiful music here for his admirers".[5] In The Irish Times, Cormac Larkin noted "Hommage is more than a tribute – it breathes new life into the playing of one of the founding fathers of European jazz".[6] The Telegraph concert review by Sebastian Scotney stated "this weekend's 75th birthday concerts in Stuttgart for the German bassist Eberhard Weber are going to take some beating as the jazz events of the year".[7]

Track listing

All music composed by Eberhard Weber except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Résumé Variations" (Jan Garbarek/Eberhard Weber)8:00
2."Hommage (Pat Metheny)"31:33
3."Touch"8:19
4."Maurizius"9:26
5."Tübingen"6:55
6."Notes After an Evening"5:32

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ ECM Records Catalog: 2400 series accessed November 10, 2017
  2. ↑ ECM Reviews accessed November 10, 2017
  3. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Pat Metheny / Jan Garbarek / Gary Burton – Hommage to Eberhard Weber > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Kelman, J., All About Jazz Review, September 4, 2015
  5. 1 2 Fordham, J., The Guardian Review, October 9, 2015
  6. 1 2 Larkin, C. Irish Times Review, September 18, 2015
  7. ↑ Scotney, S. Eberhard Weber Jubilee Concert, Stuttgart, review: 'magical', The Telegraph, January 25, 2015
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.