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PRICE:
$33.00
LOW STOCK LEVEL
1-2 Weeks
ARTIST
TITLE
Spellbound
FORMAT
2LP+CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
M 1206LP M 1206LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/8/2019

"With Spellbound Gurtu once again underlines the fact that jazz still forms the basis for his musical oeuvre. With his band he takes a surprising leap into the history of swing music in the USA and also plays pieces by style-forming trumpeters who have long been a part of the jazz canon: Dizzy Gillespie's Afro-Cuban classic 'Manteca', or a tribute to the extraordinary fusion sound of Miles Davis from the 1970s, 'Jack Johnson/Black Saint', as well as his 'All Blues' from the masterpiece Kind Of Blue and, of course, Don Cherry's 'Universal Mother' which, with its genre-crossing flow in the version by Gurtu, is almost like a further motto for Spellbound. With the music on his new album the percussionist succeeds in something that nowadays is unusual and indeed rare: building a bridge between the continents and cultures. With 'old' Europe as the geographical basis which, with its multi-layered cultural and musical history, has become Gurtu's second home."