Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame

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Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame
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Studio album by
Released2003 (2003)
RecordedJuly 1999 to May 2003
Marstall, Munich, Germany
Genre Jazz
Length76:54
Label Winter & Winter 910 095
Producer Stefan Winter
Uri Caine chronology
Diabelli Variations
(2002)
Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame
(2003)
Live at the Village Vanguard
(2004)

Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame is an album by Uri Caine featuring interpretations of music by Gustav Mahler which was released on the Winter & Winter label in 2003. [1] [2]

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Reception

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In his review for Allmusic, Alex Henderson notes that "Caine celebrates Mahler on his own terms on this consistently intriguing CD". [3]

Writing in JazzTimes, Andrew Lindemann Malone observed "When Caine responds to the melodies, rhythms and texts of Mahler's originals, he doesn't merely change his own rhythms and melodies, as jazzmen have since time immemorial, but changes styles completely-and since Mahler embraced an eclectic style himself, Caine can really pull out anything he can think of". [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Uri Caine after Gustav Mahler

  1. "Dark Flame" - 11:03
  2. "Only Love Beauty" - 2:57
  3. "In Praise of Lofty Judgement" - 3:08
  4. "Two Blue Eyes" - 9:51
  5. "Shining Trumpets" - 7:53
  6. "The Lonely One in Autumn" - 4:51
  7. "Song of the Prisoner in the Tower" - 8:06
  8. "When My Sweetheart..." - 8:39
  9. "Labor Lost" - 3:18
  10. "On Youth" - 3:34
  11. "Rhinelegend" - 3:20
  12. "When Your Mother Comes in the Door" - 1:14
  13. "St. Anthony of Padua Preaches to the Fishes" - 6:16
  14. "Only Love Beauty" - 2:44

Personnel

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References

  1. Uri Caine discography, accessed December 5, 2014
  2. Winter & Winter discography, accessed December 5, 2014
  3. 1 2 Henderson, Alex. Uri Caine – Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 216. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Malone, A. L., JazzTimes Review, April 2004