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Django Bates’ Belovèd

Music / Wednesday, 12 June 2013 - 8:00pm / Hall Two
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Django Bates’ Belovèd
Django Bates piano
Petter Eldh double bass
Peter Bruun drums

"Bird Lives" was the prophetic graffito seen on a NY wall soon after Charlie Parker's death and it continues to testify to the remarkable time-capsule from the future that was bebop.

Already with Belovèd Bird (LM004), Django made it clear that his approach would be to deconstruct and reconstruct Parker’s lines. Both the melodies and the harmonies are reconsidered, fragmented and thoroughly "Djangoised" in that joyful, insouciant and insanely clever way that characterises all his work. It is hard at this point to decide which decisions are made in advance and rehearsed, and which are arrived at in performance.

By this time in the life of his Belovèd trio, it may well be that an intuitive understanding of the "methodology" by which this fragmentation and realignment is arrived at, on the part of Peter and Petter, means that we are hearing a mixture of both ways of working. 

On the new album, Confirmation (LM007), Django’s originals stand in their own right but also serve to recontextualise Parker’s lines, using the same rhythmic and harmonic signature that is brought to bear in the re-workings of Donna Lee, Confirmation, et al. 

It seems as though there have to be regular repeats of a debate over whether jazz is a closed language, ready for its "classical" phase, or an "open sky" that cries out for periodic renewal. There are either/or characters who take sides, and others who want it all.
Django loves it all. 

"Dig Confirmation. As T.S.Eliot has it, 'Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.'"
Evan Parker

"Django Bates has done it again. In 2010, he received rapturous cheers for his Beloved Bird album, dedicated to bebop sax genius Charlie Parker. This is the five-star follow-up" *****
John Fordham, The Guardian

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