Tarantella

Product Description International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Review Mathias Eick, the young Norwegian trumpeter featured on this moodily melodious set (equally attractive for jazz and classical listeners) is touring the UK from this week - his clarity of line and whispering tone suggest he will be compelling in any setting. Lars Danielsson, the Swedish composer/bassist/cellist, has a penchant for slowly unfolding romantic themes, which get premier-league support here from Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer, UK guitarist John Parricelli and the dazzling American drummer Eric Harland - though Harland mostly restricts his role to colouration rather than his more familiar whirlwind propulsiveness. Danielsson's muscular pizzicato and lustrous bowing sound on bass and cello make him a band on his own, as the seamless shift between his fiercely struck arco solo on Traveller's Wife and the band's warm Eick-led melody on the Traveller's Defence rejoinder reveals. The Indian-influenced 1000 Ways draws Mozdzer into a gripping staccato duet with Eick, who is spine-chillingly ghostly on the spacey Introitus. The title track is a swaying dance for the leader's pounding bass, the pianist's flawness decisiveness and Parricelli's selfless washes of background texture. Harland, Eick and Mozdzer make time stand still on the brushes-driven funk of The Madonna --John Fordham, The Guardian, 24th April 2009