The subtitle of aaronsons book, a social history of postwar trade policy. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from jon balke at the discogs marketplace. Nothing but ice the adventurous but somewhat sad monotony of unchanging landscapes time piece. I found of particular interest her discussion of the differences between john. Check out book of velocities by jon balke on amazon music. Book of velocities by jon balke on amazon music unlimited. Jon balke biography, albums, streaming links allmusic.
The new album, recorded in sessions in 2019, takes further the integration and juxtaposition of. The latest on anodyne from 2012 was based on the poem anodyne by yusuf komunyakaa, and has led to the comission of a new piece with trondheim voices, munchen chamber orchestra and jon balke, where the string group merges with the voices to become one instrument, carefully surrounded. Jon georg balke born 7 june 1955 is a norwegian jazz pianist who leads the magnetic north orchestra. Jon balke 1955 was born in furnes, norway, and has been a professional musician since 1974. Norwegian pianist, composer, and conceptualist who has worked in a wide range of settings and genres and leads several bands. Francis flacco was born in january 2015 and thomas flacco. From a background in jazz and world music, he has gone on to compose for theatre and dance performances as well as major works for chamber groups and sinfoniettas. Norwegian pianist jon balke s firstever solo disc is a remarkable book of 19 short pieces, grouped into four chapters and an epilogue, of music composed and improvised, exploring a whole vocabulary of ideas, techniques, rhythms, textures and soundcolours. Jon balke, director of the magnetic north orchestra and oslo, has never recorded a solo piano set before. From the school of so spare its barely there comes this delightful, melodic and restful debut solo album by the norwegian pianist balke, here improvising through 19 short pieces the longest short of five minutes, most between two and four minutes. Show all release groups instead, or show various artists release groups.
Composistions and improvisations the listening experience. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Norwegian pianist, keyboard player, composer, arranger, bandleader and percussionist jon balke has an association with ecm dating back to his teens, when he joined arild andersens group to record clouds in my head 1975. Constructing stop 3 min 57 s dakota 4 min 58 s del rey 4 min 59 s delete.
Nineteen pieces, many of them beautiful miniatures that blend intricvate composition with improvisation. Listen to your favorite songs from book of velocities by jon balke now. Provided to youtube by universal music group sunday shapes jon balke book of velocities. Exclusive releases and albums of various styles and music genres in high quality are available to you to listen, buy and download. They are not miniatures as such, more like fully realised ideas that need be extended no further. Later he was a cofounder of the masqualero group, with andersen and jon. At the age of 18 he joined arild andersen s quartet. Book of velocities, an album by jon balke on spotify. Instead its a unique and deeply moving work that, with a broader stylistic viewpoint revealing more with each listen, deserves to be an early contender for 2008 best of lists.
Jon balke s solo recordings comprise a special subset of his work, informed by the improvisational daring and compositional imagination that has made him one of creative musics most original voices. Start with the pretentious way the disc of short read more jon balke. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Over the years tronheim voices has comissioned and performed a series of compostions from jon balke. Norwegian pianist jon balke is an avantgardeleaning musician with a bent toward mixing various stylistic influences, including contemporary jazz, postbop, rock, folk, world, and classical. Sitemap contact us distributors faq credits privacy policy terms and conditions facebook twitter newsletter contact us distributors faq. Its quite remarkable when one thinks of his facility as both a composer and an improviser, and as a musician who can rely on the pianos original tenets as a percussion instrument quite strikingly as he does as a member of the group batagraf. Balke has no formal education in music or composition and has mainly worked within the realm of improvised music. Book of velocities is a solo album by pianist jon balke recorded in 2006 and released on the ecm label in 2007. Remember me, my dear live in bellinzona 2014 jan garbarek. Book of velocities is the kind of album that keeps the uninitiated away from improvised music.
Discourses is his third solo album, preceded by book of velocities recorded 2006 and warp 2015. Debut solo piano session by norwegian pianistcomposer, whos led the ecm projects masqualero, magnetic north orchestra and batagraf. Book of velocities by aaj italy staff, published on january 21, 2008. Book of velocities is balkes first solo piano album and, as would be expected of this relentlessly explorative and selfless musician, distances itself from traditional solo performances. Bounds for the average causal effect due to balke and pearl and extensions. Book of velocities is an album that, with balke s selfless pursuit of roads less traveled, may not immediately impress.
This small sketch is inspired by some of the sounds found there. Jazz fusion, ecm style jazz, andalusian classical music. Balke started playing classical piano but switched to blues at 12, though he performs within several genres. He is the younger brother of saxophonist erik balke. Some time ago i listened to and fell in love with the album book of velocities by the norwegian jazz pianist and composer jon balke. Acswr, a companion package for the book a course in statistics with r. Trusted by over 200 noncommercial stations, spinitron supports playlist logging, reporting, web publishing, automation, push and much more. Big vicious lp avishai cohen angular blues lp wolfgang muthspiel big vicious cd avishai cohen angular blues cd wolfgang muthspiel here be dragons lp oded tzur. Listen free to jon balke book of velocities giada, scintilla and more. Jon georg balke is a norwegian jazz pianist who leads the magnetic north orchestra. Markus heiland produced by manfred eicher we believe that mere movement is life, and that the more velocity it has, the more it expresses vitality.
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