Best of the West + Many Places

Anne Mette Iversen | Format: Audio CD

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• Audio CD (April 22, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
• ASIN: B001616NKS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #472,684 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars BASSIST/COMPOSER ANNE METTE IVERSEN'S MARVELOUS JAZZ MUSIC & GROUPS, December 2, 2008

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Five BIG Stars!! A real find!! Anne Mette Iversen, recently touted in a Downbeat Magazine article, is a winner of a composer, leader, and bassist. A co-founder of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground in New York City, she is from Denmark where she was conservatory-trained as a classical pianist and by way of another Danish conservatory: a jazz acoustical bassist. The jazz double bass won her over and she moved to New York City to immerse herself in the jazz scene almost a decade ago; creating this impressive, hard-swinging jazz quartet; and composing some awesome music, somewhat reminiscent of Charles Mingus' 'East Coasting' period: flat-out challenging, enjoyable jazz music. This double CD catches her jazz quartet (John Ellis on reeds, Danny Grissett on piano, and the fiery Otis Brown III on drums) on one disc and on the other disc, her double quartet which adds the '4Corners String Quartet' (Tine Rudloff & Sarah McClelland of violin, Anne Lindewkov on viola, and Mats Larsson on cello) to the musical mix. Ms Iversen's arco bass work is serpentine beauty and she displays stout pizzicato walking ability, with clever emotional solos, plucked or bowed. Her compositions turn everyone, especially Ellis and Grissett, loose for some amazing, adventurous virtuosic performances.

The best of the best begin with Ms Iverson's blazing, neo-boppish "Cataldo One" with hot solos from Danny Grissett and John Ellis, with Iversen and Brown booting things along nicely. "Many Places" begins as a mournful Iversen arco bass theme that, without changing a note, becomes a love song by the addition of the quartet and, at the end, those very same notes become hopeful: great writing. In between things jump into a hot tempo with more great solos. "Out the Atlantic" is a grooving swinger with Iversen getting off a great solo. "East (Allegro)" starts the six movement jazz suite, recorded in Copenhagen, that uses all of the compass points for titles and adds "North West" and "North East" for good measure. 'The 4Corners String Quartet' bows furiously and beautifully 'from within' the double quartet, not in the background, in music that is swinging jazz that veers towards 'third stream' occasionally, exposing Ms Iversen's classical roots. Great jazz quartet & adventuresome double quartet music. Take note, Jazz fans, Anne Mette Iversen has stepped into our light!! My Highest Recommendation!! Five INSPIRED Stars!!

(This review is based on an Amazon.com MP3 digital album download))