Neighbourhood

Manu Katche | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 13, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ecm Records
• ASIN: B000A32KJQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,081 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #94 in Music > Jazz > European Jazz

Editorial Reviews

Neighbourhood gathers Jan Garbareck, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski and Slawomir Kurkiewicz. ECM. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice neighbours to have, December 24, 2005

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neighbourhood (Audio CD)

This cd is highly enjoyable. It's not a usual ECM record I can say. It's a little bit easier harmonically in a sense, but meantime it's still of very high artistic value. It is a very balanced recording. It's at the same time deep and fresh music. You can listen to it accurately or you can loop it in the background and be really happy with it. Stanko and Garbarek form a very interesting horn duo. Katché is a light drummer, his playing is modern, very sensitive and accurate. He has a really nice touch on the drum set. As I keep listening to this album again and again I still find it quite different from the common ECM catalogue (I mean the chamber music they often publish). It is light and intriguing, a little more bouncing, rhytmic music. Of course it depends from the fact that it has a drummer as the leader, I don't know. Anyway it is a very nice record for the connossoir but for the novice too. I mean that I feel to suggest it even to those unfamiliar with Jazz because it's a very easy listening in my opinion. So if you jazz novices want to buy a nice jazz cd to appear sophisticated when friends come to visit you this could be the one. Stanko does some exceptional trumpet playing over some quite urban, sophisticated, light tunes. I appreciated Katcheé's playing very much and Wasilewski piano playing too. The ensembe is very unique, coherent and they complement each other perfectly.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars listenable jazz and great piano (FJB/O!-music 2006), February 7, 2006

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A.J.H. Woodcount "FJB/O!-music" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neighbourhood (Audio CD)

Very listenable jazz. Beautifull piano of Marcin Wasilewski!! Great combination of Stanko on trumpet and Garbarek on tenor saxophone, blending very good. Easy drumming by Manu Katche, never getting in the way of the music. The rhythm-duo (Slawomir Kurkiewicz on bass) does what it must do: create the base of the songs, but with a great sense of timing and subtlety. The sound of the album depents very much on the sound of Wasilewski's piano. The second song sounds a little like EST, but it doesn't get the same intensity of some EST-material. But that's no problem here.

Full and warm recording, with enough aspects for both the romantic and the cool intelectual.

(Further more I recomend the good review of Jazzcat.)

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Just Excellent, April 16, 2006

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J. M. Flack "Guppy Man" (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Neighbourhood (Audio CD)

I am a Tomasz Stanko fan. I tried this CD on a whim since Tomasz was playing on it. I absolutley love it. A very beautiful CD that is very pleasing to my ear. Wonderful, slow, rhythmic melodies. One of my all time favorite Jazz CD's and I have ~ 1500 of them.