Angular Blues

Despite its relaxed feel, Angular Blues offers intense musical sensitivity, keen, active interplay and improvisatory flair. With crystalline production and canny collaboration by three jazz masters,... — AllMusic, March 2020, 4 and a half out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: 814506
Label: ECM
Length: 53 minutes

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Muthspiel: Wondering

Work length7:20

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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Scott Colley (double bass), Brian Blade (drums)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

Muthspiel: Angular Blues

Work length5:55

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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Scott Colley (double bass), Brian Blade (drums)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

Muthspiel: Hüttengriffe

Work length5:15

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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Scott Colley (double bass), Brian Blade (drums)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

Muthspiel: Camino

Work length7:42

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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Scott Colley (double bass), Brian Blade (drums)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

Muthspiel: Ride

Work length3:50

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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Scott Colley (double bass), Brian Blade (drums)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

Porter, C: Everything I love

Work length6:52

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Scott Colley (double bass), Brian Blade (drums), Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

Muthspiel: Kanon in 6 / 8

Work length7:41

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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Scott Colley (double bass), Brian Blade (drums)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

Muthspiel: Solo Kanon in 5 / 4

Work length3:34

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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Scott Colley (double bass), Brian Blade (drums)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

Paul, G: I'll Remember April

Work length5:40

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Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Brian Blade (drums), Scott Colley (double bass)
Recorded: 2018-08-12
Recording Venue: Studio Dede, Tokyo

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Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, the Austrian's fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio debut.

Like Driftwood the 2014 trio disc that JazzTimes dubbed "cinematic" and "haunting" Angular Blues finds Muthspiel paired with longtime collaborator Brian Blade on drums; but instead of Larry Grenadier on bass, it's Scott Colley, whose especially earthy sound helps give this trio its own dynamic. Muthspiel alternates between acoustic and electric guitar and, along with his characteristically melodic originals including such highlights as the bucolic "Httengriffe" and pensive "Camino" he essays the first standards of his ECM tenure ("Everything I Love" and "I'll Remember April"), as well as his first-ever bebop rhythm-changes tune on record ("Ride"). Angular Blues also features a single guitar-only track, "Solo Kanon in 5/4," with Muthspiel's electronic delay imbuing the baroque-like rounds with a hypnotic glow.

Personnel: Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Scott Colley (double-bass), Brian Blade (drums)

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March 2020

Despite its relaxed feel, Angular Blues offers intense musical sensitivity, keen, active interplay and improvisatory flair. With crystalline production and canny collaboration by three jazz masters, Angular Blues adds not only depth and breadth to Muthspiel's ECM catalog, it's weighty enough to own a chapter in the history book of jazz guitar trios.

May 2020

Angular Blues features Muthspiel at his most orthodox, and the routine of guitar-bass-drums solos on most tracks reinforces that impression. But it’s a unique collection of personal statements by a very classy contemporary trio too.

May 2020

His latest dispatch for [ECM] displays to full advantage his fingerpicking precision, attractively beady tone, melodic abilities and attention to group dynamics that gives his repertoire drama, color and shape… This is a well-played record; not earthshaking, innovative or especially challenging, but sure to interest guitarists and guitar aficionados.

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