Terje Rypdal Crime Scene
Terje Rypdal electric guitar Palle Mikkelborg trumpet Ståle Storløkken Hammond B-3 organ Paolo Vinaccia drums, sampling Bergen Big Band Olav Dale conductor
Clint - The Menace
Prime Suspects
Don Rypero
Suspicious Behaviour
The Good Cop
Is That A Fact
Parli con me?!
The Criminals
Action
One Of Those
It’s Not Been Written Yet
Investigation
A Minor Incident
Crime Solved
Recorded May 2009
ECM 2041
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An exciting departure for ECM veteran Rypdal, this extended work, commissioned for the 2009 Bergen Festival, begins with a sound of swirling massed horns likely to bring Coltrane to mind. There is more than a hint of “Ascension” in the opening moments of “Crime Scene”, a work paced like a mystery thriller. The music surrounds the Rypdal quartet with Mikkelborg, Storløkken and Vinnaccia (all of whom recently appeared on the critically-acclaimed “Vossabrygg”) with a 17-piece jazz big band and keeps the action moving at a fast pace. Allaboutjazz reviewed the Bergen premiere: “Rypdal was in fine form...Whether he was playing with a slide or his fingers, his ice-edged tone was instantly recognizable. As was Mikkelborg's, who played trumpet (muted with a Harmon mute at times) and flugelhorn, and making clear his own reference point in Miles Davis...”
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