Live Around Europe, by Mika Pohjola, Matt Penman, Roberto Dani

Live Around Europe

by Mika Pohjola, Matt Penman, Roberto Dani

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1.	Fall of 1978 10:34	buy track
2.	Before Dawn 06:41	buy track
3.	Dionysios 13:00	buy track
4.	And She Appeared 09:19	buy track
5.	Announcement 08:07	buy track
6.	Muistoja Torkkelinmäeltä 06:41	buy track
7.	The Secret of the Castle 09:52	buy track
8.	Romance 06:57	buy track
9.	The Ice that Breaks 09:01	buy track
10.	Snapshots 04:12	buy track
11.	A Farmer's Dream 11:27	buy track
12.	Reverie 06:53	buy track
13.	Relax in the Sun 08:03	buy track

about

Live Around Europe is a collection of pianist and composer Mika Pohjola�s European live concerts from summer jazz festivals in 1996 and 1997, featuring bassist Matt Penman and drummer Roberto Dani. All tracks are written by Pohjola's the creative and productive pen, but the renditions here are rather exclamatory versions of tunes heard on his excellent Myths & Beliefs (1996, GM Recordings) featuring guitarist Mick Goodrick and the two subsequent follow-ups, The Secret of the Castle and Announcement, both featuring saxophonist Chris Cheek.

On Live Around Europe Pohjola is in a trio setting (as he is on his Blue Note recording), and often more free as a pianist and leader to explore alternative angles and longer versions to his tunes, than the studio versions with his quartets would allow. It is worth mentioning that it is the compositional variety which sets the sound of the trio, and that is particularly conspicuous on this outing.

More than twenty years later from their initial recording, this trio can now be heard at its best in a remastered edition of a nearly two-hour release.