Petter Wettre -
BAND/ARTIST: Petter Wettre
- Title: Household Name
- Year Of Release: 2002
- Label: Household Records
- Genre: Jazz
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 01:01:50
- Total Size: 372 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Strike up the Band
02. What Won't Kill You Will Hurt You
03. Kosher
04. Omnipresent
05. Trigger
06. Lush Life
07. Former Teen Sensation
08. Fluffer
09. Back in the Saddle Again
10. Placebo
Household Name is presumably Petter Wettre's first recording leading a quintet. It is also the first album he released on his own label, Household, after years of struggles with small record labels. He first conveyed this group in 2001 for a concert at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, where he had won the Klart Svar Jazz Prize the year before. He kept the unit working and in April 2002 brought it in the studio for a two-day session that yielded this album. The group consists of relatively familiar faces of the Scandinavian modern jazz scene: pianist Håvard Wiik, guitarist Palle Pesonen, bassist Per Zanussi, and drummer Anders Mogensen, who also plays in Wettre's trio. This repertoire, all Wettre originals except for Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," rests on modern swing and quirky bop more than on the avant-garde leanings of the saxophonist's trio -- the best example of that: he sticks to his sax, not even whipping out his raspier bass clarinet once. Most of the tunes leave plenty of room for Wiik to stretch his McCoy Tyner-esque chops. "Strike Up the Band" and "Kosher" (the latter also featured on the Petter Wettre Trio CD Live at Copenhagen Jazzhouse, released simultaneously) are lively numbers full of twists and turns, but the quintet does a better job tackling the moodier pieces, like "Back in the Saddle Again" and "Former Teen Sensation." And Wettre's 90-second solo introduction to "Lush Life" shows a soulful understanding of its melodic richness. Very pleasant but not the sax player's most compelling recording, Household Name can serve as a good introduction for more conservative jazz fans.
01. Strike up the Band
02. What Won't Kill You Will Hurt You
03. Kosher
04. Omnipresent
05. Trigger
06. Lush Life
07. Former Teen Sensation
08. Fluffer
09. Back in the Saddle Again
10. Placebo
Household Name is presumably Petter Wettre's first recording leading a quintet. It is also the first album he released on his own label, Household, after years of struggles with small record labels. He first conveyed this group in 2001 for a concert at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, where he had won the Klart Svar Jazz Prize the year before. He kept the unit working and in April 2002 brought it in the studio for a two-day session that yielded this album. The group consists of relatively familiar faces of the Scandinavian modern jazz scene: pianist Håvard Wiik, guitarist Palle Pesonen, bassist Per Zanussi, and drummer Anders Mogensen, who also plays in Wettre's trio. This repertoire, all Wettre originals except for Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," rests on modern swing and quirky bop more than on the avant-garde leanings of the saxophonist's trio -- the best example of that: he sticks to his sax, not even whipping out his raspier bass clarinet once. Most of the tunes leave plenty of room for Wiik to stretch his McCoy Tyner-esque chops. "Strike Up the Band" and "Kosher" (the latter also featured on the Petter Wettre Trio CD Live at Copenhagen Jazzhouse, released simultaneously) are lively numbers full of twists and turns, but the quintet does a better job tackling the moodier pieces, like "Back in the Saddle Again" and "Former Teen Sensation." And Wettre's 90-second solo introduction to "Lush Life" shows a soulful understanding of its melodic richness. Very pleasant but not the sax player's most compelling recording, Household Name can serve as a good introduction for more conservative jazz fans.
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