Bruce Arnold Olivier Ker Ourio
Featuring:
Bruce Arnold—Guitar and Olivier Ker Ourio—Harmonica
Music festivals bring musicians from all over the world
together, and wonderful projects evolve from these meetings. When
harmonica virtuoso Olivier Ker Ourio (France) met electric guitarist
Bruce Arnold (USA) at an international jazz festival in Monterrey
Mexico they both felt a strong musical kinship. Olivier visited the USA
a few months later, and he and Bruce took time to create a CD's worth
of duets based on Bruce's compositions simply entitled "Duets" (MSK
122).
A transformation occurs when any piece of music originally arranged for
several instruments is condensed into the duet form. In this case, the
sweet and wistful timbre of Olivier's harmonica lends a warm
familiarity to even the most angular of Arnold's compositions. Arnold,
who is known for his fiery excursions into the land of twelve-tone
soloing is content to be the bedrock here, holding down harmony and
grooves while Ker Ourio swoops and glides with the melodies.
Olivier Ker Ourio is one of France's greatest jazz harmonica players.
He has recorded and toured with France's top jazz musicians, and
created his own CDs to great critical acclaim. But his is a divided
nationality--born in France but raised on the island of Reunion, he has
returned again and again to this place that was his formative home. His
CD "Sominnkér" was a collaboration with Daniel Waro, the
island's great maloya vocalist and was immediately recognized as an
important cross-cultural work. He continually tours and records for
CDs, television, films, and to appear on radio and television programs
in France.
Bruce Arnold has been working with twelve-tone music for the past ten
years persistently refining and developing its application to modern
jazz composition and improvisation. The LA Times said "Arnold deserves
credit for his effort to expand the jazz palette" and his three CDs
("Blue Eleven" "A Few Dozen" and "Give 'Em Some") have all received
universal praise from both jazz and classical circles. He teaches at
Princeton University and is currently the Director of NYU's Summer Jazz
Guitar Program. He has written over forty books of music instruction.
Duets—$12.99
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