Cuong Vu 4-Tet: Ballet (the Music Of Michael Gibbs) - VINYL

Title: Ballet (the Music Of Michael Gibbs)
Artist: Cuong Vu 4-Tet
Label: Rarenoise Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5060197761240
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2017-04-28
Number of Discs: 1

Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. On the heels of his acclaimed 2016 recording, Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny and his 2014 collaboration with electro-acoustic pianist-composer and Director of the School of Music at the University of Washington Richard Karpen on their Ellington-Strayhorn tribute That The Days Go By And Never Come Again, trumpeter-composer Cuong Vu joins forces with guest guitarist Bill Frisell on Ballet, a tribute to renowned composer-arranger Michael Gibbs. With regular Vu 4Tet bassist Luke Bergman and drummer Ted Poor, the four exchange ideas in the moment in a collective fashion on the expansive opening track, "Ballet," which gradually morphs into a kind of quirky, dissonant blues waltz featuring brilliant solos from Vu and Frisell. Regarding this exhilarating Vu 4Tet project, Vu says, "This was a very collective/equal opportunity effort, so we just played and dealt with the cards collectively as they were dealt. I think it just comes down to the collection of players and our individual aesthetics coming together and trying to find a common goal/language." They succeed in triumphant fashion on Ballet, the second collaboration between Cuong Vu and Bill Frisell (their first was Vu's 2005 ArtistShare album Mostly Residual).

Tracks:
1.1 Ballet
1.2 Feelings and Things
1.3 Blue Comedy
1.4 And on the Third Day
1.5 Sweet Rain