Angel Song

Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 11, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B000003204
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,469 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nicolette

2. Present Past

3. Kind Folk

4. Angel Song

5. Onmo

6. Nonetheless

7. Past Present

8. Kind of Gentel

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's this about? Collaboration, December 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Angel Song (Audio CD)

What a pelasure to hear an album that could only have come about through mutual respect and collaboration. I've been folowing Frisell for a while, buit he really shines when he gets the right people around him. He has them here.

Of course this is not a Frisell album, everyone puts forth a great effort. Kenny Wheeler does a superb job, and Dave Holland's bass work is wonderful.

I'm fiding myself reaching for this album late at night - windows open, cool breeze. Or early in the morning - when I'm just waking up. It doesn't rush anything - it takes its time, it has some space.

Here are four musicians confident in their own abilities, and willing to step forward - or step aside. The interplay is great, and a pleasure to the ears. This is helped enormously by a great production job from Manfred Eicher (what would you expect?)

Buy it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magical Music, August 10, 2009

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Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel Song (Audio CD)

Trumpeter/fluegelhornist Kenny Wheeler is joined on this session by saxophonist Lee Konitz, guitarist Bill Frisell, and bassist Bill Holland. As you might expect from such a lineup, the lines are long and flowing, the interplay is intricate, and the compositions are extended and probing. There are some wonderful little moments buried within this CD, as in the title cut, where about three minutes in, Frisell and Holland play together, Wheeler and Konitz then join in briefly, then Wheeler drops out, leaving Konitz to take the lead, but with accompaniment by Frisell and Holland. This kind of thing happens over and over again, one musician after the other stepping forward, stepping backward, interacting, supporting, blending, bending, creating musical magic, magical music. This is a startlingly wonderful recording, a contemporary classic, and I cannot recommend it too highly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Consumate Artistry, March 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Angel Song (Audio CD)

Kenny Wheeler's "Angel Song" is far and away my favorite recording of 1998. Bill Frisell does his most breathtaking and committed playing to date on this disc. Many sections are long duets between Bill and bassist Dave Holland and they are some of the finest passages in ECM's ouevre. Kenny Wheeler doesn't gtrandstand on his own album, but lets the chamber quartet breathe with a true depth of feeling for the material. Sublime.