Even Better, by MICHAEL FORMANEK VERY PRACTICAL TRIO with Tim Berne and Mary Halvorson

Even Better

by MICHAEL FORMANEK VERY PRACTICAL TRIO with Tim Berne and Mary Halvorson

supported by

Dr. "Buzz" Frenzy (Matthew J Hesse) thumbnail

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

You will get the CD booklet (as a PDF file) with liner notes and photos as a bonus if you buy the whole album.

Purchasable with gift card

$9.80 USD or more

1.	Suckerpunch 05:52	info	buy track
2.	Like Statues 07:01	info	buy track
3.	Still Here 09:54	info	buy track
4.	Implausible Deniability 08:23	info	buy track
5.	Shattered 04:45	info	buy track
6.	The Shifter 03:52	info	buy track
7.	Apple and Snake 05:23	info	buy track
8.	But Will It Float 04:39	info	buy track
9.	Bomb the Cactus 02:16	info	buy track
10.	Jade Visions 04:10	info	buy track

about

Intakt CD 335

With his impressive artistic biography, Michael Formanek is one of the outstanding personalities of contemporary jazz as a composer, a bassist in ensembles and a soloist. He belongs to the circle of leading bassists and composers that includes Charles Mingus, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden and Barry Guy.

Formanek's musical world, his immense experience, his knowledge of jazz tradition and the avantgarde, his ability and his charismatic appearance have a highly stimulating effect on the musicians of his bands. After the release of the CD with the Elusion Quartet (with Kris Davis, Tony Malaby, Ches Smith), the first album from his new trio follows: Michael Formanek Very Practical Trio with saxophonist Tim Berne and guitarist Mary Halvorson.

"Michael Formanek has made some of his keenest creative leaps in recent years, documented on a sequence of justly lauded albums," writes American journalist Bradley Bambarger. The new album surprises with song-like structures: „it indeed courses with an insinuating lyricism, along with a snaking metrical pulse and a surprising textural richness given just three players.“

REVIEWS:
www.intaktrec.ch/rev335.htm

credits

released October 18, 2019

Michael Formanek: Bass
Tim Berne: Alte Saxophone
Mary Halvorson: Guitar

All compositions by Michael Formanek, except „Jade Visions“ by Scott
Lafaro. Recorded February 20th, 2019, at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon,
New York, by Ryan Streber, and assisted by Teng Chen. Mixed in
April 2019 and mastered in May 2019 at Oktaven Audio by Ryan Streber.
Cover photo: Anja Illmaier. Graphic design: Paul Bieri. Liner notes:
Bradley Bambarger. Photos: Monica Jane Frisell. Produced and published by Michael Formanek and Intakt Records

license

about

Michael Formanek New York, New York

contact / help

Contact Michael Formanek

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Even Better, you may also like:

Never Is Enough
by Thumbscrew

supported by 63 fans who also own “Even Better”

Awesomely nuanced stuff. Lord Dubious
go to album
Both Are True
by Webber/Morris Big Band

supported by 56 fans who also own “Even Better”

This albums has some fantastic writing, and is beautifully arranged and recorded. For fans of more modern experimental big band. dreG
go to album
Artlessly Falling
by Mary Halvorson's Code Girl

supported by 55 fans who also own “Even Better”

Mary Halvorson is a genius composer and guitarist who has developed her own musical language, and with Code Girl she has incorporated poetry into that language. Incredible compositions and lyricism (each track is a different kind of poem). Halvorson's playing is as great as usual, and all the other members of the band sound great. Robert Wyatt's singing in particular works extremely well in the tracks he's featured. Highly, highly recommend. rat
go to album
Apocryphal (Single)
by Ben Haskins Quartet

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 1, 2022
go to album
The Way We Are Created
by Gabriel Vicéns

A joyous jazz guitar album, where leaping songs are lit up by silvery melodic leads. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 23, 2021
go to album
HH Reimagined
by Lionel Loueke, Gilles Peterson

featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 15, 2022
go to album
Old New
by Tomeka Reid Quartet

supported by 55 fans who also own “Even Better”

Mary Halvorson’s guitar playing is so unique! Beside Reid’s approach to cello it setting up a mood for the whole album. Very interesting! Robin Nitram
go to album