The Gleaners

Larry Grenadier’s The Gleaners is a profound and highly creative album, harvesting influences from many sources, its title inspired by Agnès Varda’s film The Gleaners and I. In between his own pieces here, including a dedication to early hero Oscar Pettiford, Grenadier explores compositions by George Gershwin, John Coltrane, Paul Motian, Rebecca Martin and Wolfgang Muthspiel. “The process for making this record began with a look inward,” Larry writes in his liner note, “an excavation into the core elements of who I am as a bass player. It was a search for a center of sound and timbre, for the threads of harmony and rhythm that formulate the crux of a musical identity.” The result is an important addition to ECM’s series of distinguished solo bass albums. The Gleaners was recorded at New York’s Avatar Studios in December 2016, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Tracks

1~1~Oceanic (Larry Grenadier)
1~2~Pettiford (Larry Grenadier)
1~3~The Gleaner (Larry Grenadier)
1~4~Woebegone (Larry Grenadier)
1~5~Gone Like The Season Does (Rebecca Martin)
1~6~Compassion / The Owl Of Cranston (John Coltrane / Paul Motian)
1~7~Vineland (Larry Grenadier)
1~8~Lovelair (Larry Grenadier)
1~9~Bagatelle 1 (Wolfgang Muthspiel)
1~10~Bagatelle 2 (Wolfgang Muthspiel)
1~11~My Mans Gone Now (George Gershwin)
1~12~A Novel In A Sigh (Larry Grenadier)

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Larry Grenadier
Release Date: 15 February 2019
Genre: Jazz
Label: EDITION OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Distributor: Universal Music