CD: An Evening With
Ron Carter & Richard Galliano
publication date: 12 Jan 2017
Here the French accordion master, whose fingers fly over the keyboard with acrobatic ease, making the instrument weep in melancholy or jubilate with joy. There the American bass instance, whose low tuned strings ennoble more than 2500(!) recordings. Two who have long since attained heroic status in their own world and can actually only lose if they enter each other's terrain
Believe me, there's nothing truer than going on stage with a gambler, Carter enthuses about the refreshed liaison with his Gallic pal. The two rediscovered the once lost thread in March 2016 at the Jazz Woche in Burghausen as a small intermezzo during a joint performance with the WDR Big Band. The preliminary highlight was then the recording in the Theaterstübchen in Kassel on October 29. Galliano remembers: "Before we started, I said to him: You can see: 27 years have passed, we are still the same and I still play the same accordion. To which Ron replied: "And we still have the same fingers!
Believe me, there's nothing truer than going on stage with a gambler, Carter enthuses about the refreshed liaison with his Gallic pal. The two rediscovered the once lost thread in March 2016 at the Jazz Woche in Burghausen as a small intermezzo during a joint performance with the WDR Big Band. The preliminary highlight was then the recording in the Theaterstübchen in Kassel on October 29. Galliano remembers: "Before we started, I said to him: You can see: 27 years have passed, we are still the same and I still play the same accordion. To which Ron replied: "And we still have the same fingers!