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Stephen Marley makes his return with the first of a two part album compilation with Revelation part 1: The Root of Life. Son of the infamous Bob Marley, the reggae artist already has Revelation Part 2: The Fruit of Life recorded and ready to go for a fall release. With The Root of Life, Marley hopes to show the root of reggae music, and bring a new generation into the discovery of “roots reggae”. Marley has already designated the album’s follow up Fruit of Life to showcase a more “electric feel”.

The first track off the album “Made in Africa” has Marley’s vocals backed with the cast of Fela and rustic percussion, the later a feature throughout the album. Also featured on the track is rapper Wale who lends his tribute to “mama aftrica”. “Jah Army” is the first single off The Root of Life and features Marley’s brother Damian “Jr Gong Marley” in a timeless hard driving roots reggae tribute to Rastafarian beliefs. The track also features Buju Banton who also does not fail to deliver. Marley’s follow up single “No Cigarette Smoking” is a romantic reggae ballad that features the sultry vocals of Guyanese/Canadian singer Melanie Fiona. Together, Marley and Fiona deliver a memorable lovers-rock track that even made its debut on top of the iTunes reggae charts at number one.

Marley’s third album release features themes of roots pride and action against political oppression in tracks such as “Old Slaves” and “Can’t Keep I Down”, both which include driving dramatic percussions. Also featured on the album are collaborations with brother Ziggy Marley on “The Chapel” and Stragga Benz on the track “Working ways”. Revelation part 1: The Root of Life is a must have for those who appreciate genuine reggae music, and no doubt has everyone waiting in anticipation for his fall release of Revelation Part 2: The Fruit of life.

Genre/Style: ECM, Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Modern Creative
Format: mp3

Marcin Wasilewski - piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz - double-bass
Michal Miskiewicz - drums
The trio of Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz is one of the most outstanding contemporary jazz groups. Their friend and mentor trumpeter Tomasz Stańko has said, “In the entire history of Polish jazz we’ve never had a band like this one. They just keep getting better and better.” It was through Stańko’s ECM recording Soul of Things, recorded 2001, that the wider world first had a hint of the capacity of Wasilewski/Kurkiewicz/Miskiewicz. Since then, they’ve toured widely with Stanko and contributed mightily to his quartet recordings Suspended Night and Lontano, recorded in 2003 and 2005.

As an autonomous force, the trio’s biography begins in 1990, when Wasilewski and Kurkiewicz as 15-year old students at the Koszalin High School of Music began playing jazz together. Their first trio was formed the following year. In 1993 drummer Miskiewicz joined them, and the group’s line-up has been stable ever since. As the Simple Acoustic Trio they won awards in their homeland and issued five albums on local labels. Their first international release, for ECM, entitled just Trio was recorded in 2004 and released the following year, immediately winning the Quarterly Prize of the German Record Critics. In the US, too, critics were taking notice. “Their years together have resulted in an ensemble with an utterly symbiotic creative flow,” wrote Don Heckman in the Los Angeles Times.

The release of January—recorded in New York with producer Manfred Eicher early in 2007—signalled a change of name, simply, the MarcinWasilewski Trio. The group continues to be run as a collective of equals, but its members have come to accept the convention that piano trios are traditionally identified by their pianists. Besides, Marcin is the band’s principal songwriter: he contributes four pieces to the present disc, including the title track and the beautiful opener, “The First Touch”. Wasilewski also, at the urging of the producer, addresses pieces written by Gary Peacock and by Carla Bley—pieces identified with two major pianists, respectively Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley. Wasilewski does not flinch from the challenge but, with his trio partners, makes of this music something of his own. “Vignette” is a composition by Gary Peacock first heard on the album Tales of Another, the 1978 ECM recording which marked the coming together of the band later known as Jarrett’s “Standards” Trio.

The Wasilewski Trio takes it at a statelier pace, and mines it for deeper emotions. A powerful performance, especially in the light of Marcin’s indebtedness to Jarrett as a player. Acknowledging the influence, he moves beyond it. Carla Bley’s composition “King Korn” meanwhile is a piece of early 60s vintage that surfaced on Paul Bley’s 1963 classic “Footloose” recording with the great trio line-up including Steve Swallow and Pete La Roca. The Polish trio fly at it with invigorating energy and wonderful group interaction (the recording quality illuminating detail with a clarity impossible back in the days when Paul Bley was recording for Savoy), with especially exciting dialogues between Michal Miskiewicz and Wasilewski. “Balladyna,” a Tomasz Stanko tune, was title track of the Polish trumpeter’s ECM debut disc (with a rhythm section of Dave Holland and Edward Vesala), back in 1975, the year Wasilewski was born.

The trio’s dark, swirling rubato performance has the stark drama and predatory lyricism associated Stanko; they’ve played the piece often in concert with the composer. On their 2004 ECM disc, the trio offered a luminous version of Björk’s “Hyperballad”. This season’s pop cover is Prince’s “Diamonds and Pearls,” the ballad from 1991 which gains a deal of mystery in this stripped-down interpretation in which bassist Kurkiewicz shares the melody with Wasilewski. The cinematic arts are never far away in Polish jazz; ever since 1958, when Komeda first collaborated with Polanski, the genres have influenced each other. Wasilewski’s “The Young and Cinema” references an identically-titled festival of new Polish films held in Koszalin. The trio also covers Ennio Morricone’s title theme for Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 film “Cinema Paradiso,” itself a celebration of film. The album closes with a trio improvisation, a free ballad made in the moment and specific to its time and place, “New York 2007.” As already demonstrated on Stańko’s Lontano, these are players extremely adept at creating songs in real time.

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