 Исполнитель: Vincent Hsu Trio Название альбома: Lullaby for the Youth Год выпуска: 2016 Формат файлов: MP3@320K/s Размер архива: 138,3 MB Скачать с: depositfiles
Hsu was awarded a master’s degree in Jazz Performance from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance from City College of New York, where he previously earned a master’s degree in TESOL. His musical styles cross between jazz and Afro-Cuban music. Outside of performing, he is committed to the outreach of jazz culture and original compositions, actively promoting jazz and Afro-Cuban music through projects in education and international exchange. He formed the Soy La Ley Afro-Cuban Jazz Band and serves as the musical director of the Clave de Cuba arts festival.
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Imbued with Hsu’s utmost reverence for jazz, every track is a dialogue with those he loves—and nothing more. And if this album takes expression as the core of music, then Vincent's collaborators are of fundamental influence and importance in that respect
His teacher, Harold Danko, is a living legend in jazz circles, boasting a history of collaborations with Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, Gerry Mulligan, among many other celebrated figures. And among music lovers, Harold Danko hasn’t by any means earned a reputation as a sideman. Much to the contrary, his work ranks alongside the work of jazz masters. True jazz aficionados will recognize Danko’s highly original and exquisite timbre, boundless creativity, and enduring ability to deliver a sublime performance. Having talked in depth with him on a few occasions, I’m aware of his deep fascination with phonology and ongoing exploration of the interdisciplinary relationships between poetry, language, and music. Though it may already be evident, he also told me that he always sings the song’s lyrics in his head whenever he performs a solo. Being a musician, Vincent Hsu clearly knows better than I do that not all things are visible on the surface, and it’s no coincidence that these two meet again on this album.
Billy Drummond is the indispensable third part of the trio on this album. His performances on the drums are sometimes like singing, and other times like chanting. Throughout the entire recording, he underscores the various moods of Harold Danko and Vincent Hsu with decisiveness as well as acute sensitivity, playing the role of the lighting designer or the photographer. He gives each track its own unique properties—chiaroscuro, temperature, rawness, distance, sorrow, and joy—imbuing the entire album with wisdom and farsightedness, as well as a humanist ethos.
In a contemporary jazz world where boundary-crossing, compositional grandeur, and unusual experimental beats are all-pervasive and taken to extremes, Vincent Hsu responds with his honest perspective, in the form of this simple and old-fashioned-looking album. It’s not just because he feels like responding this way, but because he knows there’s something that’s vital to jazz, and that as a musician, he has a responsibility to recover that thing, and to continue upholding it. (And thus, it should go without saying, what the symbolic meaning of “Renaissance,” the album’s first track, is.) “Lullaby for the Youth” isn’t just a song for the kids to drift off to, it also represents Vincent Hsu’s hopes for, and admonitions to, the next generation of musicians.
This album from a piano trio contains a distinct aesthetic philosophy, exquisite performances, and artistic rigor. Bravo to the Taiwanese jazz world for producing another fine record. And thanks to Vincent Hsu for affirming that Taiwan’s jazz musicians unequivocally inhabit a vast world of their own, one with the capacity for nuance and profound spiritual dialogue.— Cain Chang, excerpt from liner notes
1. Renaissance 7:25
2. Vanilla Orchid 5:10
3. Slugs' 5:46
4. For Charlie 4:34
5. Lullaby for the Youth 6:33
6. Dreaming New York 4:11
7. Don't Mess with Angels 4:51
8. Hugo 6:48
9. Waltz for Calice 4:37
10. The Awakening 4:30
11. After Sunshine 4:23
Vincent Hsu double bass
Harold Danko piano
Bill Drummond drums
2016 Vincent Hsu / AsiaMuse
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