Manu Katché - Live In Concert (CD)

Release Date: 08/15/14“This warm, engaging and melodic album catches the sense of power-in-reserve that makes Katché’s live shows irresistible” (The Guardian)June. Monday night. Inside the New Morning, the atmosphere is special: the faithful are here and you can feel it. As soon as Manu Katché launches into his concert you can sense this is going to be some journey and he's not holding back. His bass-drum thuds with authority, punctuated by flashing cymbals, and his sticks fly into the air before they drop softly: right from the start, they express the elegant dynamics which have come to characterize his style. There's something in the air: an exceptional moment is coming. The quartet present on stage played some 130 concerts last year, which gives it impressive cohesion; the sound is superbly solid, sweeping all before it. Braced by layers of Hammond organ from the subtle Jim Watson, trumpeter Luca Aquino takes flight. The twin voices of Tore Brunborg, tenor and soprano saxophones cl