Ball Play, by Mika Pohjola, Drew Gress & Mark Ferber

Ball Play

by Mika Pohjola, Drew Gress & Mark Ferber

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1.	Ball Play 05:40	buy track
2.	Two Pages 10:41	buy track
3.	Star Dust 04:25	buy track
4.	First Flow (Ecliptic Conspiracy Mode) 09:07	buy track
5.	Concentracznyi 05:48	buy track
6.	Song Of Trust 03:04	buy track
7.	Minor Question 02:54	buy track
8.	Ninghe 04:34	buy track
9.	The Ice That Breaks 04:52	buy track
10.	These Foolish Things 03:08	buy track
11.	Movements in Style 03:21	buy track
12.	Sophisticated Lady 04:46	buy track
13.	Jazz Blues 03:57	buy track
14.	Norwegian Summer 05:08	buy track
15.	What The World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love 03:42	buy track

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A collaboration with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Mark Ferber, pianist Mika Pohjola offers a follow-up to his Sound of Village duo improvisations. Pohjola features a free jazz vein of the 1960s, known as proprietary territory of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Paul Bley and Rashied Ali. Coupled with original compositions by Pohjola, Xavier Montsalvatge and Burt Bacharach, Ball Play is a one-hour long enjoyment which naturally spans several decades of musical expression.

Ball Play opens with the title-track ... continues with a more original-spirited Two Pages, which repeats and develops a short motive in the first half, and then gradually moves toward a free flow of thought. The standards, Star Dust, These Foolish Things and the Burt Bacharach original What The World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love are among the best renditions on the album, and this is where all three musicians are fully engaged in the twisting of the familiar source material. Pohjola's brightest solo contributions can be heard on "Song of Trust" and the strange traditional-oriented Jazz Blues. An oddity on the album is the Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge song Ninghe, which is played without alteration from the original.

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released March 1, 2003

Mika Pohjola - piano
Drew Gress - bass
Mark Ferber - drums

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