{"id":792422,"date":"2019-01-27T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784658"},"modified":"2019-01-27T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T15:00:01","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-joe-lovano-rare-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-joe-lovano-rare-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Joe Lovano, \u2018Rare Beauty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/joe-lovano-syntk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cRare Beauty,\u201d a standout track from Joe Lovano\u2019s new album <em>Trio Tapestry<\/em>, starts with a deep, resonant tom-tom rumble from drummer Carmen Castaldi. Lovano\u2019s tenor saxophone and Marilyn Crispell\u2019s piano enter with a snaking, up-and-down line, which Castaldi accompanies and answers. The way the instruments swirl together, intuitively tracing out the chant-like theme without settling into a steady rhythm, instantly recalls a sound pioneered by the late drummer-composer Paul Motian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">From the early Eighties on, Joe Lovano\u2019s saxophone presence, magisterial yet poignant, was a key part of that sound. The trio Motian led with Lovano and guitarist Bill Frisell would become legendary for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7e5pmvYcYzY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">spare, impressionistic approach<\/a>, and the music on\u00a0<em>Trio Tapestry<\/em> \u2014 the 66-year-old saxophonist\u2019s first album as a leader for eminent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jazz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jazz\" data-tag=\"jazz\">jazz<\/a>\/classical label ECM, which released a series of outstanding Motian\/Frisell\/Lovano full-lengths from 1985 through 2006 \u2014 seems to draw inspiration from that earlier band. (The title of invocation-like album opener \u201cOne Time In\u201d subtly nods to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-IJQJGQ1tg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1989 release<\/a> by the trio.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After the opening theme of \u201cRare Beauty,\u201d Crispell offers a lovely, billowing improvisation on the melody, as Castaldi accompanies her with subtle patterns and colors on his ride cymbal. Their duo gives way to an equally poetic saxophone feature that strips down to a ghostly swing-feel duo between Lovano and Castaldi. Even as the energy picks up, a feeling of space and stillness prevails. Crispell re-enters and, without returning to the opening statement, the three bring the piece to a gradual close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Overall, \u201cRare Beauty\u201d is a piece that, like those earlier Motian recordings, defies the idea that jazz needs to be either \u201cfree\u201d or \u201ctraditional,\u201d \u201cin\u201d or \u201cout.\u201d Like <em>Trio Tapestry<\/em> as a whole, it\u2019s both enchantingly melodic and alluringly mysterious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-joe-lovano-trio-tapestry-ecm-album-784658\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRare Beauty,\u201d a standout track from Joe Lovano\u2019s new album Trio Tapestry, starts with a deep, resonant tom-tom rumble from drummer Carmen Castaldi. Lovano\u2019s tenor saxophone and Marilyn Crispell\u2019s piano enter with a snaking, up-and-down line, which Castaldi accompanies and answers. The way the instruments swirl together, intuitively tracing out the chant-like theme without settling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:22:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}