Gateway 2

Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, John Abercrombie, Gateway | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B0000031Q0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,713 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening

2. Reminiscence

3. Sing Song

4. Nexus

5. Blue

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OVERLOOKED GEM!, February 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Gateway 2 (Audio CD)

The 2nd "GATEWAY" release is much more thoughtful and sedate but no less involving than the other titles by Abercrombie, Holland and DeJohnette. "OPENING" is a perfect start---DeJohnette using his percussion to brilliant effect (and closing the track also) with Holland dropping in for some limber bass that gets things rolling and Abercrombie's ethereal guitar creating the magic that sets him apart from ANY fret man in jazz. The typical ECM sound is here and kudos to Manfred Eicher for producing this and many classic albums of this stature. If you're a fan of any of the gentlemen featured here, this is a great trio CD and should not be missed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The next gateway - further explorations of the Gateway Trio, November 21, 2001

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Julius Kusuma (Cambridge, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gateway 2 (Audio CD)

John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack Dejohnette reunited in the second offering of the Gateway trio. The music on this CD is more intriguing than their first offering, and is glued together more closely than before. Dejohnette's rolling drums is met with Holland's thoughtful and bold bass lines, providing a rich landscape for Abercrombie's lucid lines on the guitar.

The magic between the three players is obvious from the first track "Opening": thumping bass and drums underlying Abercrombie's avant-garde guitar improvisations slowly but surely building in collective improvisation. In "Sing Song", one of my favourite tunes, Abercrombie's craftily contructed melodic lines is counterbalanced by Holland's warm embrace on the bass, giving a very sentimental dialog rounded up with Dejohnette's lyrical lines on the drums.

This album is a glimpse at the future of jazz from the 70's: very sparse structures building itself through contructive communication between the players in real-time. Simply a timeless classic that I keep finding myself back to again and again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars #1 Gateway, December 4, 2010

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Mortrude Sluurp "Morty" (Poughkeepsie, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gateway 2 (Audio CD)

This is the best Gateway set. As others have noted, the interplay between the players is awesome (and this isn't a trick of studio magic - I saw them in England just as this album (then) was being released and their interplay live is accurately captured here). The tunes are memorable and the improvising is first rate. I guarantee that this will stick in you mind for a long time (in the best way).