Reg Schwager Trio - Chromology (2010)
BAND/ARTIST: Reg Schwager Trio
- Title: Chromology
- Year Of Release: 2010
- Label: Jazz from Rant
- Genre: Jazz
- Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:53:11
- Total Size: 124 / 276 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Wayfaring Stranger
02. May Days
03. Chromology
04. Lowlands
05. Tickety-boo
06. Nocturne
07. Blue Baião
08. Crop Circle
09. Yesterday's News
10. Beautiful Dreamer
11. Indian Summer
Reg Schwager - guitar Michel Lambert - drums Jon Maharaj - bass recorded August 10, 2010 in Toronto at The Magnolia recorded and mixed by Jesse Capon mastered by Jeff Elliott design by Kim Chua - a review by Peter Hum from Jazzblog. Ca: Chromology (Rant Records) Reg Schwager Trio I can't think of another Canadian jazz player who deserves more recognition abroad than Toronto guitarist Reg Schwager. If jazz lovers elsewhere know the boyish 49-year-old, the explanation would most likely be his performing credits with George Shearing and Diana Krall. In Toronto, Schwager's been a sideman of choice for decades, playing, for starters, in the groups of Don Thompson (his fellow Shearing bandmate), the singer Emilie-Claire Barlow and trombonist Darren Sigesmund. But then, he's been an old-soul player since his late teens. By the early 1980s, he had enough together to have performed with Pepper Adams, Jon Hendricks, Hank Jones, Junior Mance, Jimmy McGriff, Zoot Sims, J.R. Monterose and Chet Baker. Discs under Schwager's own name are not so easy to come by -- most are on his own label - but I recently received his latest trio CD, Chromology. It's a pleasing, substantial disc that reveals more with every listen and is a testament to Schwager's diverse interests and mature artistry. Chromology consists of 11 concise and well-defined tracks, most of which are Schwager compositions. Some tracks -- the versions of Wayfaring Stranger and Indian Summer that bookend the CD, for starters, Schwager's tunes Yesterday's News and the onomatopoeic Tickety-Boo -- are lean swinging tunes in a standard vein. They're what you might expect from a Shearing/Krall colleague. But Schwager also writes tunes with more modern harmonic content such as the pretty waltz May Days, the plaintive straight-eighth tunes Lowlands and Nocturne, and the upbeat, contemporary pieces Crop Cycle and Chromology. More evidence of Schwager's broad musical passions: Blue Baiao nods to folkloric Brazilian music (as does the now dormant Brazilian Music Treasure Hunt blog, which he maintained for many years), and Beautiful Dreamer unfolds as a sweet rubato piece reminiscent of Montreal guitar icon Sonny Greenwich. Regardless of the material, Schwager's a forthright, melodic improviser, a pure player who never seeks to impress with flashiness but is all the more impressive as a result. With strong and sensitive support from bassist Jon Maharaj and drummer Michel Lambert, another distinctive Canadian original deserving wider recognition, Schwager's simpily shining on Chromology. Reg Schwager bio: Reg Schwager was born in the Netherlands in 1962. When he was three his family moved to New Zealand where he studied Suzuki violin. When he was six his family moved again, this time to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. There he took music lessons in recorder, flute and piano before settling on the guitar as his main instrument. By age fifteen he was playing jazz gigs in big band and small group settings and in duet with his sister Jeannette. It was at two jazz workshops conducted by Phil Nimmons - at the University of Toronto (1978) and the Banff Centre (1979) that Reg met some of the musicians he would begin working soon after he moved to Toronto in 1979. These included fellow students Renee Rosnes and Ralph Bowen and faculty members including Nimmons, Dave McMurdo, Herbie Spanier and Pat Labarbera. Since then he has been working steadily on the Toronto jazz scene and in other musical areas including new music (New Music Concerts, Hemispheres and Sound Pressure, among others) and improvised music (with musicians such as Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink). Reg has toured across Canada and worldwide with George Shearing, Diana Krall, Peter Appleyard, Rob McConnell and many others. He appears on over 80 commercially released recordings with such artists as Junior Mance, Gary Burton, George Shearing and Mel Tormé. CDs released under his own name include 'Resonance', 'Border Town', 'Live at Mezzetta'and 'Chromology' Recently he has been touring and recording with Emilie-Claire Barlow, Diana Panton, Jeannette Lambert and Darren Sigesmund. Reg was the recipient of the Guitarist of the Year award from Canada's National Jazz Awards for four consecutive years (2005-2008). reg schwager: press kit He alternates imaginative, if relatively straightforward, melodic ideas with long, high-falutin' phrases of great harmonic complexity, pausing here and there to let float a handful of those lighter-than-air chords so beloved of jazz players ... Schwager's solo is a relaxed (not to be confused with lazy) concentration of long, tortuous phrases that cohere as magnificently as they succeed in flouting our expectations. Which, in addition to swinging, is about all you can ask from jazz. - Eye: Jazzola, Tim Powis Schwager is a fierce Canadian guitar player. Very descriptive and lush, doesn't shy away from danger. - Jazz Central Station: JazzTrack, Jill Maxi Schreibman This Toronto guitarist is a very hip musician- hip, in a cool, offhand way that belies his remarkable technical proficiency... His trio on Border Town (Pat Collins or Dave Young, bass; Michel Lambert, drums) swings loosely and rather restlessly through seven of his own tunes and five standards, blurring the line between the traditional and the contemporary- as jazz guitar goes- very effectively. - Globe& Mail, Mark Miller Border Town showcases his impressive, lyrical versatility in fluent, nimble originals like 'Firefly' and the bright, vivacious 'Bay Street Bounce' as well as ballad standards like 'They Say It's Spring' where his relaxed invention recalls Ed Bickert. He gets impressive support from bass player Pat Collins in 'Firefly' and 'Border Town' while Dave Young's prowess is showcased (Snowpea/Mister Lucky) and drummer Michel Lambert brings 'Kiki-San' to a dramatic climax. - Cadence, David Lewis JAZZ GUITARIST TALKS WITH HIS FINGERS He gives the impression, whether playing or not, of always listening intently, and that may be the key to his growth and attainment as a musician. 'I have never thought twice about being a musician,' he says, 'And, as a musician, what is important is to find your own identity.' Given the extent of his search in a mere decade, and despite his single-minded dedication to it, it may be impossible for Schwager to put into words what he has found. Possibly his identity is best understood by accepting that what he plays is in essence what he has to say. - The Toronto Star, Val Clery From his early work in the melodically subdued, harmonically rich manner that has come to be expected of this city's guitarists, he has moved toward something more assertively his own... If the tunes late Thursday were familiar, the trio's perspective was nevertheless fresh. The three musicians established an informal flow in each, replacing the boppish stricture with a freer, aggressively conversational approach in which transitions between solos were gradual when they weren't altogether oblique. It is music that would rightly be measured in degrees of density rather than the degrees of heat more traditional to jazz parlance. Piltch's booming bass and Lambert attentive, texturally varied drumming established a low rumble of sound; Schwager, with his thin, incisive tone, and lively phrasing, was not intimidated. He's turning into a real scrapper. - The Globe and Mail, Mark Miller Schwager is in relaxed, sympathetic form throughout, but leads his own trio forcefully on Know Your Zones, cuts culled from brisk live sessions at George's with bassist David Piltch and Lambert. He weaves intensely melodic lines while Lambert's prodding propulsions give his instrument solo status. - The Toronto Star, Geoff Chapman String Bean: The tall thin figure of Reg Schwager is inescapably prominent at the centre of the jazz spectrum. He plays guitar as naturally and unselfconsciously as he breathes.
01. Wayfaring Stranger
02. May Days
03. Chromology
04. Lowlands
05. Tickety-boo
06. Nocturne
07. Blue Baião
08. Crop Circle
09. Yesterday's News
10. Beautiful Dreamer
11. Indian Summer
Reg Schwager - guitar Michel Lambert - drums Jon Maharaj - bass recorded August 10, 2010 in Toronto at The Magnolia recorded and mixed by Jesse Capon mastered by Jeff Elliott design by Kim Chua - a review by Peter Hum from Jazzblog. Ca: Chromology (Rant Records) Reg Schwager Trio I can't think of another Canadian jazz player who deserves more recognition abroad than Toronto guitarist Reg Schwager. If jazz lovers elsewhere know the boyish 49-year-old, the explanation would most likely be his performing credits with George Shearing and Diana Krall. In Toronto, Schwager's been a sideman of choice for decades, playing, for starters, in the groups of Don Thompson (his fellow Shearing bandmate), the singer Emilie-Claire Barlow and trombonist Darren Sigesmund. But then, he's been an old-soul player since his late teens. By the early 1980s, he had enough together to have performed with Pepper Adams, Jon Hendricks, Hank Jones, Junior Mance, Jimmy McGriff, Zoot Sims, J.R. Monterose and Chet Baker. Discs under Schwager's own name are not so easy to come by -- most are on his own label - but I recently received his latest trio CD, Chromology. It's a pleasing, substantial disc that reveals more with every listen and is a testament to Schwager's diverse interests and mature artistry. Chromology consists of 11 concise and well-defined tracks, most of which are Schwager compositions. Some tracks -- the versions of Wayfaring Stranger and Indian Summer that bookend the CD, for starters, Schwager's tunes Yesterday's News and the onomatopoeic Tickety-Boo -- are lean swinging tunes in a standard vein. They're what you might expect from a Shearing/Krall colleague. But Schwager also writes tunes with more modern harmonic content such as the pretty waltz May Days, the plaintive straight-eighth tunes Lowlands and Nocturne, and the upbeat, contemporary pieces Crop Cycle and Chromology. More evidence of Schwager's broad musical passions: Blue Baiao nods to folkloric Brazilian music (as does the now dormant Brazilian Music Treasure Hunt blog, which he maintained for many years), and Beautiful Dreamer unfolds as a sweet rubato piece reminiscent of Montreal guitar icon Sonny Greenwich. Regardless of the material, Schwager's a forthright, melodic improviser, a pure player who never seeks to impress with flashiness but is all the more impressive as a result. With strong and sensitive support from bassist Jon Maharaj and drummer Michel Lambert, another distinctive Canadian original deserving wider recognition, Schwager's simpily shining on Chromology. Reg Schwager bio: Reg Schwager was born in the Netherlands in 1962. When he was three his family moved to New Zealand where he studied Suzuki violin. When he was six his family moved again, this time to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. There he took music lessons in recorder, flute and piano before settling on the guitar as his main instrument. By age fifteen he was playing jazz gigs in big band and small group settings and in duet with his sister Jeannette. It was at two jazz workshops conducted by Phil Nimmons - at the University of Toronto (1978) and the Banff Centre (1979) that Reg met some of the musicians he would begin working soon after he moved to Toronto in 1979. These included fellow students Renee Rosnes and Ralph Bowen and faculty members including Nimmons, Dave McMurdo, Herbie Spanier and Pat Labarbera. Since then he has been working steadily on the Toronto jazz scene and in other musical areas including new music (New Music Concerts, Hemispheres and Sound Pressure, among others) and improvised music (with musicians such as Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink). Reg has toured across Canada and worldwide with George Shearing, Diana Krall, Peter Appleyard, Rob McConnell and many others. He appears on over 80 commercially released recordings with such artists as Junior Mance, Gary Burton, George Shearing and Mel Tormé. CDs released under his own name include 'Resonance', 'Border Town', 'Live at Mezzetta'and 'Chromology' Recently he has been touring and recording with Emilie-Claire Barlow, Diana Panton, Jeannette Lambert and Darren Sigesmund. Reg was the recipient of the Guitarist of the Year award from Canada's National Jazz Awards for four consecutive years (2005-2008). reg schwager: press kit He alternates imaginative, if relatively straightforward, melodic ideas with long, high-falutin' phrases of great harmonic complexity, pausing here and there to let float a handful of those lighter-than-air chords so beloved of jazz players ... Schwager's solo is a relaxed (not to be confused with lazy) concentration of long, tortuous phrases that cohere as magnificently as they succeed in flouting our expectations. Which, in addition to swinging, is about all you can ask from jazz. - Eye: Jazzola, Tim Powis Schwager is a fierce Canadian guitar player. Very descriptive and lush, doesn't shy away from danger. - Jazz Central Station: JazzTrack, Jill Maxi Schreibman This Toronto guitarist is a very hip musician- hip, in a cool, offhand way that belies his remarkable technical proficiency... His trio on Border Town (Pat Collins or Dave Young, bass; Michel Lambert, drums) swings loosely and rather restlessly through seven of his own tunes and five standards, blurring the line between the traditional and the contemporary- as jazz guitar goes- very effectively. - Globe& Mail, Mark Miller Border Town showcases his impressive, lyrical versatility in fluent, nimble originals like 'Firefly' and the bright, vivacious 'Bay Street Bounce' as well as ballad standards like 'They Say It's Spring' where his relaxed invention recalls Ed Bickert. He gets impressive support from bass player Pat Collins in 'Firefly' and 'Border Town' while Dave Young's prowess is showcased (Snowpea/Mister Lucky) and drummer Michel Lambert brings 'Kiki-San' to a dramatic climax. - Cadence, David Lewis JAZZ GUITARIST TALKS WITH HIS FINGERS He gives the impression, whether playing or not, of always listening intently, and that may be the key to his growth and attainment as a musician. 'I have never thought twice about being a musician,' he says, 'And, as a musician, what is important is to find your own identity.' Given the extent of his search in a mere decade, and despite his single-minded dedication to it, it may be impossible for Schwager to put into words what he has found. Possibly his identity is best understood by accepting that what he plays is in essence what he has to say. - The Toronto Star, Val Clery From his early work in the melodically subdued, harmonically rich manner that has come to be expected of this city's guitarists, he has moved toward something more assertively his own... If the tunes late Thursday were familiar, the trio's perspective was nevertheless fresh. The three musicians established an informal flow in each, replacing the boppish stricture with a freer, aggressively conversational approach in which transitions between solos were gradual when they weren't altogether oblique. It is music that would rightly be measured in degrees of density rather than the degrees of heat more traditional to jazz parlance. Piltch's booming bass and Lambert attentive, texturally varied drumming established a low rumble of sound; Schwager, with his thin, incisive tone, and lively phrasing, was not intimidated. He's turning into a real scrapper. - The Globe and Mail, Mark Miller Schwager is in relaxed, sympathetic form throughout, but leads his own trio forcefully on Know Your Zones, cuts culled from brisk live sessions at George's with bassist David Piltch and Lambert. He weaves intensely melodic lines while Lambert's prodding propulsions give his instrument solo status. - The Toronto Star, Geoff Chapman String Bean: The tall thin figure of Reg Schwager is inescapably prominent at the centre of the jazz spectrum. He plays guitar as naturally and unselfconsciously as he breathes.
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