Listen & tracks
2 of 11 tracks have a preview · 9 works · 63:22
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1 It Could Happen to You Johnny Burke 8:54
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2 Marabi Cannonball Adderley 7:48
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3 Sometime Ago Sandra Mihanovich 8:02
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4 Andalucia Ernesto Lecuona 3:41
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5 Epistrophy Thelonious Monk 7:19
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6 You Don't Know What Love Is Gene de Paul 9:03
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7 Sweet and Lovely Gus Arnheim 7:01
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8 I Love You Cole Porter 7:04
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9 You've Got Buckley's Mal Sedergreen 4:30
The set moves from It Could Happen to You and Adderley’s Marabi through Monk’s Epistrophy and Porter’s I Love You, closing on Mal Sedergreen’s You’ve Got Buckley’s.
Magnusson colours two of the longer pieces. The trio’s decades-long partnership gives the music its ease, humour and bite, taped as it happened for ABC Classic FM.
In the artist’s words
The greatest of all jazz drummers has gone. Elvin Jones passed away in May 2004 aged 76, bringing to a close a style, an energy, an honesty and integrity that is irreplaceable!
We're dedicating this recording to his memory. Sure, our musics are vastly different in origin, but where the jazz is concerned, the Trio performs at all times with the same joy and enthusiasm as was always evident with the great man. There is no other way to play this music!
There's a more personal connection as well. We were fortunate enough to see, hear and hang out with Elvin during a Scandinavian tour in 1978.
Since then Bob and I have had contact, endeavoring to get his 'Jazz Machine' to Australia, and remarkably, Barry shares his birth date!
Thank you Elvin, you were the greatest, a huge inspiration and above all, a beautiful person...
Many thanks also to Jim McLeod, Mal Stanley, Martin Jackson, Bob, Barry and Steve for making it happen.
Enjoy!
I have known The Ted Vining Trio almost as long as it has been a trio – it must be the longest running association in Australian jazz, but they keep the music as fresh as tomorrow. Whilst I have probably heard them more often than any other group, I can't wait to hear their next concert. Bob Sedergreen is a piano player of supreme finesse and inventiveness. Barry Buckley is a solid and creative bass player.
'Live' recordings capture a real performance, rather than the sometimes too perfect feeling of a studio recording. I was there for the concert captured on this CD; it was exciting, humorous, lyrical and moving, as a performance of the group always is. It is magnificently recorded by my colleague Mal Stanley.
In dedicating the album to Elvin Jones, Ted Vining pays tribute to his main mentor. I would say that Ted Vining's performances, more than any other, embody that spirit of Elvin Jones – the freedom, the boldness, the originality, the special sense of dynamics. Obviously that affects the trio he leads.
Elvin Jones was not simply the most influential drummer in jazz, he should be considered one of the most influential musicians in jazz from the 1960s when he joined the John Coltrane Quartet – the major jazz group of the time.
The Elvin Jones technique of dense percussive polyrhythmic activity increased the intensity of the music, even leading the great John Coltrane to more exalted heights and powers.
Please enjoy with me The Ted Vining Trio 'for Elvin'.
Reviews
...three powerful and idiosyncratic voices that have been together for decades. Vining's multi-limbed attack and Sedergreen's voicings can echo [Elvin] Jones' and are full of surprises. Vining has that uncanny ability to create rhythmic motion while making it sound like a never-ending solo. The cameo from Steve Magnusson on two tracks adds extra depth and colour.
Artists
The Ted Vining Trio
ensemble
Drummer Ted Vining, pianist Bob Sedergreen and bassist Barry Buckley first got together in August 1969, and have played around the world ever since as a high sought-after rhythm section.
Steve Magnusson
guitar
Steve Magnusson is one of Melbourne's most sought after guitarists, having appeared on numerous film scores, and performed with international artists the likes of Steve Coleman, Arthur Blythe, Enrico Rava, George Coleman Junior and Mike Stern.
Johnny Burke
composer
Johnny Burke wrote the words to some of the most durable standards in the Great American Songbook, including Like Someone in Love, It Could Happen to You and Misty, songs that still sit at the heart of jazz and popular singing.
Jimmy Van Heusen
composer
Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the melodies that still sit at the centre of the jazz and popular songbook: film and stage standards built for crooners, bands and late-night rooms, from Darn That Dream to Come Fly with Me.
Thelonious Monk
composer
Thelonious Monk's compositions sit at the centre of the modern jazz repertoire: angular melodies, dissonant clusters and a percussive piano attack that leaves space for silence and surprise. Standards such as 'Round Midnight, Blue Monk and Epistrophy still sound newly invented.
Cole Porter
composer
Cole Porter wrote both the tunes and the words: urbane, sharp-edged songs built for the stage and still at home in the jazz room. From Night and Day to You're the Top, I Get a Kick Out of You and I Concentrate on You, his catalogue keeps singers circling back.
Cannonball Adderley
composer
Gus Arnheim
composer
Gene de Paul
composer
Gene de Paul (1919–1988) was an American pianist, composer and songwriter. His standards include You Don’t Know What Love Is and Teach Me Tonight.
Ernesto Lecuona
composer
Ernesto Lecuona’s piano writing bends European salon forms toward Cuban rhythm and colour: dances, character pieces and Spanish-inflected showpieces that lodge in the ear and refuse to leave.
Sandra Mihanovich
composer
Don Raye
composer
Raye was an accomplished dancer as a boy, and won the Virginia State Dancing Championship. From the mid-20s he worked as a singer and dancer in Vaudeville and, later, toured theatres and nightclubs in France and England, while also writing songs for himself and other performers.
Mal Sedergreen
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- The Ted Vining Trio · ensemble
- Ted Vining · drums
- Bob Sedergreen · piano
- Barry Buckley · double bass
- Steve Magnusson · guitar · tracks 5 and 6
Technical credits
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Producer
Mal Stanley
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Recording Engineer
Mal Stanley
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Venue
Bennett's Lane
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Credit
Paul Penton
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 63 minutes 22 seconds
- Release date
- 1 Jul 2004
- Category
- Jazz
- Genre
- Jazz & Improvised
- Musical work copyright
- © 2004 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2004 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3287
- EAN
- 9314574328721
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