Quercus (album)
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| Quercus | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | March 22, 2013 |
| Recorded | March 2006 |
| Genre | Folk, Jazz, Folk jazz |
| Length | 59:25 min. |
| Label | ECM Records |
| Producer | Manfred Eicher |
Quercus is a 2013 live album by English folksinger June Tabor, Welsh jazz pianist Huw Warren & English saxophonist Iain Ballamy. It is also the name of the trio project which derived from an earlier collaboration on Tabor's At the Wood's Heart from 2005. Though, Warren has been a pianist and musical director for Tabor since 1988. The recording took place at The Anvil in Basingstoke at the end of a tour in March 2006.[1] Ballamy, who has previously recorded for ECM Records with his experimental jazz duo Food, recalled “the piano was excellent, the acoustics in the hall were good, and nobody coughed.”[2]
Many of the pieces dig deep into the British folk music and are well known traditionals. Furthermore, they fall back to works of William Shakespeare or Robert Burns and George Butterworth and set them into new arrangements for this trio. "This Is Always" by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren remains the only jazz standard while one contemporary song by film composer David Ballantine entered the track list.[3] Additionally the pop songs "Who Wants the Evening Rose" by Les Barker/Yosef Hadar and "All I Ask of You" by American monk Gregory Norbet (an adaption Ballamy previously created with colleague Django Bates for their Loose Tubes) were queued.[4] The timeline concludes with a solo composition by Warren which is inspired by Renaissance composer John Dowland.[1]
Track listing
Source:[5]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Lassie Lie Near Me" | Robert Burns | traditional | 5:09 |
| 2. | "Come Away Death" | William Shakespeare | traditional, arr. by Ballamy | 6:31 |
| 3. | "As I Roved Out" | traditional | traditional | 5:56 |
| 4. | "The Lads In Their Hundreds" | A. E. Housman, arr. by Ballamy | George Butterworth | 5:35 |
| 5. | "Teares" | (piano solo) | Huw Warren | 3:54 |
| 6. | "Near But Far Away" | traditional | traditional, arr. by Ballamy | 7:27 |
| 7. | "Brigg Fair" | traditional | traditional, solo arr. by Tabor | 2:25 |
| 8. | "Who Wants The Evening Rose" | Les Barker | Yosef Hadar | 4:41 |
| 9. | "This Is Always" | Mack Gordon | Harry Warren | 4:35 |
| 10. | "A Tale From History (The Shooting)" | Dave Ballantine | Dave Ballantine | 4:31 |
| 11. | "All I Ask Of You" | Gregory Norbet | Gregory Norbet | 8:03 |
Personnel
Source:[6]
Music
- June Tabor - vocals
- Huw Warren - piano
- Iain Ballamy - soprano & tenor saxophone
Production
- Manfred Eicher - producing, mixing
- Jan Erik Kongshaug - mixing
- Paul Sparrow - engineering
- Mike Mower - editing
- Jan Kricke - photography
- Sascha Kleis - design
