Wolfgang Muthspiel – Rising Grace (Teaser) | ECM Records

Wolfgang Muthspiel
Rising Grace

Wolfgang Muthspiel: guitar
Ambrose Akinmusire: trumpet
Brad Mehldau: piano
Larry Grenadier: double-bass
Brian Blade: drums

+++ Release: October 2016 — Available on CD / LP / Download +++

Wolfgang Muthspiel – whom The New Yorker has called “a shining light” among today’s jazz guitarists – made his ECM leader debut in 2014 with the trio disc Driftwood, featuring him alongside two longtime colleagues, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Brian Blade. For his follow-up – Rising Grace – the Austrian guitarist has convened a very special quintet, adding jazz luminary Brad Mehldau on piano and the outstanding young trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire to the subtly virtuosic Grenadier/Blade rhythm section. Muthspiel moves between electric guitar and classically tinged acoustic six-string, his playing by turns grooving (“Boogaloo”) and enchanting (“Rising Grace”). The lyrical flights of Akinmusire’s trumpet and the probing improvisations of Mehldau run through Muthspiel’s rich set of compositions like golden threads, the tracks including a warm tribute to a late, great ECM artist, Kenny Wheeler (“Den Wheeler, Den Kenny”). Rising Grace also includes a deeply melodious piece that Mehldau composed especially for the album, “Wolfgang’s Waltz.”

ECM 2515

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"Wolfgang's Waltz" fue el cuarto tema
del concierto de
THE BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO
LIVE AT AUDITORIO NACIONAL
IN MADRID
ON THE 19TH OF FEBRUARY, 2017,
tema que "escribí para el álbum en el que participé con este extraordinario guitarrista" ( el álbum se llama "Rising Grace").