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- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: SRCD382
- Format: CD
- UPC: 832929003820
- Street Date: 05/08/12
- PreBook Date: 04/03/12
- Label: Basho Music »
- Genre: Jazz
- Run Time: 60:06 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2012
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
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Nikki Iles - Hush
Transatlantic collaboration from one of the UK's most accomplished woman pianists with Rufus Reid and Jeff Williams.
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10 years ago Nikki Iles recorded her first trio album "Everything I Love" for Basho with Canadians Duncan Hopkins and Anthony Michelli. Time for a new one. The new Nikki Iles album "Hush" due for release in February 2012 on Basho was inspired by a project with the London Philharmonic's 'Renga' ensemble where both Rufus and Nikki were featured composers.Having played with Jeff Williams in Martin Speake's band Nikki came up with the idea of recording an album in New York with two New Yorkers that had never played together at Dae Bennett's studio in September 2010. Nikki says: "To make music with Jeff and Rufus has been an incredible privilege. They have played with so many of the great names in jazz and are now a part of the history of this music. I really felt inspired by the depth of their playing. In recording this CD I found the kind of unforced interaction and intimacy that I love which allows for a continuous free flow of ideas". "Hush" features a lyrical eclectic mix of tunes, some originals with a mix of Arguelles, Towner, Wheeler, Le Grand, David, Brubeck and Rodgers and Hart. Nikki first met the great Jeff Williams touring with Martin Speake's "Change of Heart" (ECM) group and was taken with his staggering inventiveness and warmth of sound and during the next few years have continued to enjoy playing and deepening their musical relationship. Around the same time Nikki met the wonderful Rufus Reid in London. Both were invited to write for the contemporary group Renga, made up of musicians from The London Philharmonic Orchestra and later with The London Jazz Orchestra. There was an instant rapport and although both Jeff and Rufus had extensively worked with great musicians such as Stan Getz, Tom Harrell, Lee Konitz and Joe Lovano, they had never played together until this recording. There are new compositions by Nikki, contemporary tunes by Julian Arguelles and Ralph Towner as well as some standard tunes that all three musicians like to play.
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Bonus Materials
- Features US bassist Rufus Reid and US drummer Jeff Williams
