# New music by Noah Preminger, Jason Palmer and Cyrille Aimée: Videos, Sound, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/02/25/new-music-by-noah-preminger-jason-palmer-and-cyrille-aimee-videos-sound/
- Published: 2019-02-25T19:59:42+01:00
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**Noah Preminger Quartet, “For the Man with the Golden Arm”**

The celebrated filmmaker Otto Preminger died on April 23, 1986 — about six weeks
before Noah Preminger, a distant relation and future saxophonist, was born. That
rough alignment of familial connection and cosmic timing always lurked somewhere
in the background of Noah’s consciousness. It moved more into the foreground when
he began his studies at the New England Conservatory, encountering pianist and teacher
Ran Blake, a classic film buff and Otto P. fan.

_Preminger Plays Preminger _is the well-steeped byproduct of this fascination: an
act of personal archeology that also amounts to an exercise in aesthetic translation.
Noah has apparently been plotting an album like this for years; he finally made 
it for Newvelle Records, which has selected it as the the first entry in a new season
of subscription-only vinyl releases.

The album features a quartet with a first-rate rhythm section: Jason Moran on piano,
Kim Cass on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums.

_Preminger Plays Preminger _isn’t an album of refurbished movie themes — though 
it does engage with Duke Ellington’s indelible score for _Anatomy of a Murder_. 
For much of the album, Noah presents original music cued to specific moments or 
scenes in Otto’s filmography. The piece above, a bonus track, draws inspiration 
from _The Man with the Golden Arm_, which earned Oscar nominations for composer 
Elmer Bernstein as well as its star, Frank Sinatra. Rather than building on Bernstein,
it inhabits a new sphere of silvery melancholy — and suggests the expanded sound
of a quintet, because Preminger made the decision to overdub his tenor saxophone.

**Jason Palmer, “Waltz For Diana”**

A sharp, charismatic trumpeter with a refreshingly playful streak, Jason Palmer 
has released a succession of strong yet often-underappreciated releases over the
last decade. His new double album, _Rhyme and Reason_, seems likely to garner some
serious attention, and not just because it features an ace quartet with Mark Turner
on tenor saxophone, Matt Brewer on bass and Kendrick Scott on drums.

“Waltz For Diana,” which has its premiere here, is a case in point. As the title
implies, it’s a contemporary response to Bill Evans’ “Waltz For Debby.” But as Palmer
explains in his liner notes, it also builds on a vintage Kurt Rosenwinkel composition,
[“Dream of the Old”](https://youtu.be/cGXrKGIqYDI) (which, in its original iteration,
featured Turner). The melody is springy with deft intricacies, and the solos are
terrific throughout. _Rhyme and Reason _is also one of the first projects realized
by Giant Step Arts, a nonprofit founded by noted photographer Jimmy Katz.

**Cyrille Aimée, “Marry Me A Little”**

_Move On: A Sondheim Adventure _is the smartly realized new album by Cyrille Aimée,
who taps a deep reserve of emotional complexity and harmonic sophistication in Stephen
Sondheim’s music. I’ve reflected on the album here before, and Aimée is the featured
guest on a brand-new edition of WBGO’s Singers Unlimited, hosted by Michael Bourne.
But it also seemed right to share this proper music video for the album’s lead single,
directed by Noé Cugny.

**Stephan Crump’s Rosetta Trio, “Dec. 5”**

Bassist and composer Stephan Crump has now made four albums with Rosetta Trio, his
string ensemble with guitarists Liberty Ellman and Jamie Fox. The latest is _Outliers,
_just out on Papillon Sounds.

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As is always the case with this band, the album strikes a balance between delicate
chamber atmosphere and direct emotional expression. That’s partly a function of 
Crump’s writing; it also has a lot to do with the interplay he fosters with Ellman(
acoustic) and Fox (electric). “Dec. 5,” one of the more exquisite pieces on the 
album, perfectly captures this dynamic, with a ballad that moves like a dawning 
realization.

**Sam Pluta and Peter Evans, “De Singer (Part 1)”**

Over the last decade, electronics artist Sam Pluta and trumpeter Peter Evans have
appeared on 10 albums together, plumbing the depths of pure sound in improvisational
settings. Their new, go-for-broke statement is _Two Live Sets_, releasing this Friday
on Carrier Records.

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One of the two sets on the album was recorded at the De Singer jazz club in Belgium.
The first portion of that performance has its premiere here, and it’s a stunner —
a 25-minute saga full of unexpected twists, furnished both by Pluta’s real-time 
sampling and sonic manipulation and Evans’ superhuman acoustic interventions.

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