Mahler: Drummer Boy Uri Caine

• 1 Rhinelegend 03:20
• 2 I Often Think They Have Merely Gone Out! 03:53
• 3 The Drummer Boy 14:07
• 4 Two Blue Eyes 09:59
• 5 Adagietto 10:42
• 6 When Your Mother Comes in the Door 01:13
• 7 I Went Out This Morning Over the Countryside 06:58
• 8 Dark Flame 11:06
• Total Runtime 01:01:18

Info for Mahler: Drummer Boy

One hundred years ago the Austrian, Jewish-Catholic musician Gustav Mahler dies. No other contemporary composer has looked as intensively as Uri Caine into Mahlers œuvre. In Gustav Mahler's music resounds the Fin de Siècle with symphonies in terrific orchestrations, military marches, Austrian dances, songs and Jewish melodies. Now, one hundred years later, Caine adapts with his knowledge of the decline of the Danube Monarchy, of the Nazi time and the Holocaust, of the developments and origins of contemporary music and jazz the compositions of Gustav Mahler. Caine creates a master piece. The album »The Drummer Boy« begins with the rhythm in 3/4 of „Rhinelegend“ introducing the wonderful actor and singer Josef Bierbichler – followed by „Kindertotenlieder“, the famous „Adagietto“ from the 5th Symphony and among other highlights „Two Blue Eyes“ with the Jewish cantor Aaron Bensoussan, the American poet Shulamith Wechter Caine (Uri Caine’s mother) and with an outstanding piano solo by Uri Caine himself. All the adaptations come from different creative periods of the last 15 years. Uri Caine built up with these outstanding works his international reputation. The big success of »Urlicht/Primal Light« after Gustav Mahler is the beginning of his very special canon. Uri Caine adapts compositions by Bach, Schumann, Beethoven and Wagner, writes compositions for the renowned Arditti String Quartet, creates with Bedrock a fusion of Drum 'n' Bass, post-bop, electric music and improvisation and releases in 2011 an acoustic jazz piano trio album with his own pieces, which receives wide attention by the press and audiences.

With »The Drummer Boy« Uri Caine introduces key works of Mahler and transforms them with improvisational stylistic devices of jazz into a new world. Caine moves freely between beautiful sound cascades, unsettling and again reconciling sounding improvisations, songs of a Jewish cantor, DJ music and impressive text interpretations by Josef Bierbichler (When Your Mother Comes In The Door). Each bar is fulfilled with Mahler's music and yet also with Caine. Caine and Mahler, or Mahler and Caine form a symbiosis. Similar to how Mahler reviews his century musically, Caine's music reflects the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. The album title is a little homage to Leonard Bernstein' s essay 'The Little Drummer Boy' about Gustav Mahler. This CD is the 23rd Uri Caine album on the Winter & Winter label, where he released all of his projects.

'Uri, a jazz pianist and composer, takes Mahler's music and bends it every which way with a varied ensemble in search of hidden messages. […] One way or another, I can't get this disc off my playlist.' (Norman Lebrecht)

Uri Caine, piano, celesta
Ralph Alessi, trumpet
Dave Douglas, trumpet
Josef Bierbichler, voice
Aaron Bensoussan, vocals, oud
Arto Lindsay, voice
Shulamith Wechter Caine, voice
Julie Patton, voice
Jim Black, drums
Joey Baron, drums
David Binney, alto saxophone
DJ Olive, turntables, live electronics
Don Byron, clarinet
Mark Feldman, violin
Michael Formanek, bass
Larry Gold, cello
Josh Roseman, trombone
Danny Blume, guitar

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