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Eldar Djangirov - Live At The Blue Note









Artist: Eldar Djangirov
Title Of Album: Live At The Blue Note
release date: May 30, 2006
Label: Sony Classical Essential
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop
Duration: 76:12




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Tracklist

1. What Is This Thing Called Love
2. Someday
3. You Don't Know What Love Is (feat. Chris Botti)
4. Daily Living
5. Dat Dere
6. Besame Mucho
7. Straight, No Chaser (feat. Roy Hargrove)
8. Sincerely
9. Chronicle
10.Take The "A" Train

personnel

Eldar - piano
Marco Panascia - bass, dublebass
Todd Strait - drums

special guests:
Roy Hargrove - trumpet
Chris Botti - trumpet


Listen to Sample


http://www.allmusic.com/album/eldar-live-at-the-blue-note-mw0000762659

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJNp-BQNIdI Straight, No Chaser (feat. Roy Hargrove)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h0d9Khti28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4VZLnsUrow (Fenomenal please listen)


Described by The New York Times as "an ebullient impressionist," Djangirov moved from the former Soviet

Union to Kansas City, Mo., at age 10. He quickly gained a reputation as a child prodigy and signed to Sony

Masterworks at 17. In 2005 Djangirov released his major label debut, Eldar, a jazz recording featuring

GRAMMY winners Michael Brecker on tenor saxophone and John Patitucci on bass. The album climbed to No. 9

on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart and was followed by 2006's Eldar Live At The Blue Note. In 2007

Djangirov released Re-Imagination, which peaked at No. 25 on the Top Jazz Albums chart and earned a GRAMMY

nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. In 2009 Djangirov teamed with bassist Armando Gola and

drummer Ludwig Afonso to form the Eldar Djangirov Trio, with whom he released 2009's Virtue and their

follow-up effort, Breakthrough, which was released in April.



review


Piano phenom Eldar Djangirov has most certainly heard it all before: his similarities to Art Tatum, Oscar

Peterson, Bill Evans, his astounding speed, the way he's able to move his way through some of jazz's most

intricate numbers, that he's played with some of the genre's biggest names, at some of the most important

venues; that all of this has been accomplished before his 20th birthday. And the amazing thing about this

is that all of these statements are completely true. Eldar is an exceptionally gifted pianist, regardless

of age, very skilled at improvising upon a theme without completely obliterating it, alluding to it

constantly while still adding his own distinct voice. All of this is portrayed very well on Eldar Live at

the Blue Note. The legendary jazz club provides a good setting for the pianist and his band, bassist Marco

Panascia and drummer Todd Strait, as well as special guests Chris Botti and Roy Hargrove, who add their

trumpets to a track each. Eldar is quite talented at using dynamics, among other things, to his advantage,

and he climbs and swings his way through the ten songs on the album. Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing

Called Love" takes on new meaning as Eldar's right and left hands chop out fast alternating rhythms, and

Thelonious Monk's classic "Straight, No Chaser" is ripe with interplay between the pianist and Hargrove

and moves along mightily. The best piece on the album, however, is probably the one that's the relative

slowest, the cover of "Besame Mucho." Here, Eldar decelerates some and lets the subtle emotion of the song

really come through, his improvisations alluding to the vocals of both Nat King Cole and Carmen McRae.

Perhaps the only place where Eldar's youth shows is in his original compositions, not because of their

lack of complexity, but because of their seeming preoccupation with poignancy and affectation, moving away

from the jazz that he clearly knows and loves and towards something closer to Windham Hill-esque music.

Here, his fondness of arpeggiating is more of a weakness than a strength, as it makes the songs overtly

sentimental. Eldar Live at the Blue Note more than proves the pianist's skill as musician, performer, and

arranger, but his compositional ability still needs some time to develop. Considering that Eldar was just

18 when he recorded this album, there's nothing really wrong with that at all.