{"id":10066,"date":"2014-01-27T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2016-11-13T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:16:49","slug":"the-convergence-quartet-slow-and-steady-nobusiness-records-2013-aka-bun-en-bad-music-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/the-convergence-quartet-slow-and-steady-nobusiness-records-2013-aka-bun-en-bad-music-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Convergence Quartet: <i>Slow And Steady<\/i> (NoBusiness Records, 2013) aka BUN en Bad Music Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10068\" alt=\"The Convergence Quartet_Slow and Steady\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Convergence-Quartet_Slow-and-Steady-200x200.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Convergence-Quartet_Slow-and-Steady-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Convergence-Quartet_Slow-and-Steady-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Convergence-Quartet_Slow-and-Steady-54x55.jpg 54w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Convergence-Quartet_Slow-and-Steady.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Convergence Quartet sigue adelante sin prisa, pero sin pausa. En seis a\u00f1os este grupo intercontinental (Harris Eisenstadt proviene de Canad\u00e1, Taylor Ho Bynum de Estados Unidos; Alexander Hawkins y Dominic Lash del Reino Unido) ha publicado tres CD alternando grabaciones en directo y estudio. <em>Slow And Steady<\/em>, su \u00faltima entrega, fue grabada en 2011 en el Vortex Jazz Club, uno de los locales de Londres con una programaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s interesante en la actualidad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Los cuatro componentes de este grupo son unos artistas con unas carreras m\u00e1s que notables. Tanto la de Bynum como la de Einsenstadt, los dos m\u00fasicos m\u00e1s veteranos del grupo, est\u00e1n ya m\u00e1s que consolidadas. Alexander Hawkins es uno de los pianistas emergentes m\u00e1s interesantes de la actualidad. Lo mismo que ocurre con Dominic Lash, aunque en su caso con el contrabajo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Slow And Steady<\/em> es una obra que se podr\u00eda denominar coral. Ninguno de ellos toma un rol instrumental por encima del resto. Adem\u00e1s de las fases de trabajo conjunto, en los temas aparecen pasajes en forma de solos, d\u00faos y tr\u00edos. En consonancia con que el grupo no tome el nombre de ninguno de sus integrantes, el repertorio est\u00e1 a su vez compuesto por los cuatro m\u00fasicos. Estos temas reflejan distintas formas de afrontar tanto la composici\u00f3n como la improvisaci\u00f3n. \u00abRemember Raoul\u00bb de Bynum se plantea de tal modo que la improvisaci\u00f3n y la composici\u00f3n aparecen como unas disciplinas desdibujadas. Eisenstadt vuelve a demostrar que es un gran compositor tanto en \u00abThird Convergence\u00bb, como en \u00abSlow and Steady\u00bb, el precioso tema que cierra la grabaci\u00f3n y que deber\u00eda pasar a la categor\u00eda de los <em>standards<\/em> contempor\u00e1neos. Hawkins aporta la crispada \u00abassemble \/ melancholy\u00bb (un inicio perfecto para la grabaci\u00f3n), y \u00abequals \/ understand (totem)\u00bb que por momentos parece un himno. Dominic Lash manda en la segunda mitad con \u00abThe Taff End\u00bb, tema de inspiraci\u00f3n <em>monkiana<\/em> lleno de <em>swing<\/em>, que aparece contrapuesto al car\u00e1cter enigm\u00e1tico y abierto de \u00abOat Roe + Three by Three\u00bb, que le antecede en la grabaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a9 Pachi Tapiz, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Escuchar \u00abThe Taff End\u00bb y \u00abSlow and Steady\u00bb de The Convergence Quartet en <em>Bad Music Jazz<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scannerfm.com\/pachi-tapiz-tomajazz-ens-descobreix-a-the-convergence-quartet-i-a-mes-fred-hersch-i-ralph-alessi-andreu-vilar-i-mose-allison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.scannerfm.com\/pachi-tapiz-tomajazz-ens-descobreix-a-the-convergence-quartet-i-a-mes-fred-hersch-i-ralph-alessi-andreu-vilar-i-mose-allison\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Convergence Quartet: Slow And Steady<\/p>\n<p>The Convergence Quartet<br \/>\nTaylor Ho Bynum (corneta), Alexander Hawkins (piano), Dominic Lash (contrabajo), Harris Eisenstadt (bater\u00eda)<\/p>\n<p>\u00abassemble \/ melancholy\u00bb (Alexander Hawkins), \u00abThird Convergence\u00bb (Harris Eisenstadt), \u00abRemember Raoul \/ Piano Part Two\u00bb (Taylor Ho Bynum \/ Dominic Lash), \u00abequals \/ undesrstand (totem)\u00bb (Alexander Hawkins), \u00abOat Roe + Three by Three\u00bb (Dominic Lash), \u00abThe Taff End\u00bb (Dominic Lash), \u00abSlow and Steady\u00bb (Harris Eisenstadt)<\/p>\n<p>Grabado el 13 de noviembre de 2011 en The Vortex Jazz Club, dentro del London Jazz Festival. Publicado en 2013 por NoBusiness Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Convergence Quartet sigue adelante sin prisa, pero sin pausa. En seis a\u00f1os este grupo intercontinental (Harris Eisenstadt proviene de Canad\u00e1, Taylor Ho Bynum de Estados Unidos; Alexander Hawkins y Dominic Lash del Reino Unido) ha publicado tres CD alternando grabaciones en directo y estudio. Slow And Steady, su \u00faltima<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/the-convergence-quartet-slow-and-steady-nobusiness-records-2013-aka-bun-en-bad-music-jazz\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17847,5,1038],"tags":[6417,5086,12651,6413,12696,5334,13,12415,15295,2054,31,7649,8195,16099,77,16100],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pachi-tapiz","category-grabaciones","category-contenidos","tag-alexander-hawkins","tag-bad-music-jazz","tag-cd","tag-dominic-lash","tag-grabaciones","tag-harris-eisenstadt","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-en-espana","tag-jazz-en-espanol","tag-nobusiness-records","tag-pachi-tapiz","tag-taylor-ho-bynum","tag-the-convergence-quartet","tag-toma-jazz","tag-tomajazz","tag-tomajazz-toma-jazz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Convergence-Quartet_Slow-and-Steady.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19950,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/david-torn-the-convergence-quartet-roscoe-mitchell-quartet-lqpneeoelfdjcadqqvsvee-hdo-0014-audioblog\/","url_meta":{"origin":10066,"position":0},"title":"David Torn, The Convergence Quartet, Roscoe Mitchell Quartet: LQPNEEOELFDJCADQQVSVEE. 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