{"id":4975,"date":"2015-07-07T14:31:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2015-07-07T14:31:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:31:05","slug":"a-love-supreme-2015-reviewed-by-ian-pople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=4975","title":{"rendered":"A Love Supreme, 2015, reviewed by Ian Pople"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love Supreme, Glynde Place, Sussex.\u00a0 3<sup>rd<\/sup> \u2013 5<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a stunned silence around Glynde Place on the first Monday in July.\u00a0 People wander from the toilet blocks, and back and forth from the <i>Wide Away Caf\u00e9<\/i> with a pinched look on their faces.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just that someone\u2019s taken their holiday away, or that for at least some of them, they face work and the real world the tomorrow. It\u2019s that for three days, there\u2019s been a different kind of world here;\u00a0 Henry\u2019s Gourmet coffee;\u00a0 CreperieOui; Pieminster;\u00a0 each of which are Love Supreme institutions; or Snarky Puppy on video in the Jazz Lounge, an innovation this year.\u00a0 And the choice of music led to timetable clashes of a very severe kind.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s always an element of tension at Love Supreme, between a need to provide a level of jazz purism and an equally compelling need to provide for a wider audience.\u00a0 To some extent that tension is resolved with three stages, and, even, a bandstand, which supports local and smaller national players.<\/p>\n<p>Purity was first up on Saturday in the Big Top, with The Bad Plus Joshua Redman.\u00a0 The Bad Plus have always been a slightly cerebral trio, and pianist Ethan Iverson has a neat side line in criticism not least in his blog, Do the Math.\u00a0 Their rise to fame came, to some extent, as a jazz trio which created post-bop covers of rock numbers;\u00a0 and there had been a feeling that their own ventures into composition had not always been quite as successful.\u00a0 Tenor player Joshua Redman, son of Dewey, is a player of plangent elegance. And his presence has given the Bad Plus a soulful strength.\u00a0 The compositions are still as lapidary, but the whole set was consistently engrossing and moving, even with that slight layer of coolness.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Sunday, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire brought his quartet to the Big Top.\u00a0 Akinmusire belongs to that genre of American jazz whose roots are very much in the African-American spiritual tradition. The title of his most recent album on Blue Note, <i>The Imagined Savior is far easier to paint, <\/i>also hints at a tension that lies in his own music.\u00a0 Akinmusire\u2019s own sound is the very essence of mellow.\u00a0 And yet his spirituality creates an ethereal, free-form music in which his quartet, Sam Harris on piano, Harish Raghavan on bass and the wonderful Jason Brown on drums, plays and tumbles with an immense, if stark, beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Early Sunday evening, Terence Blanchard brought his new E-Collective to the Big Top.\u00a0 This group has been compared to Miles&#8217; Bitches Brew group, and there\u2019s a similar sound world at work here.\u00a0 Blanchard, an exhaustive jazz educator, has often got young players into his groups, and in E-collective he has Fabian Almazan on keyboards, and the virtuosic Charles Altura on guitar, the line-up is completed by Oscar Seaton from Sheffield on drums and Donald Ramsey on bass guitar. \u00a0Blanchard has always had an activism in his music \u2013 he composed the magnificent sound track to Spike Lee\u2019s <i>When the Levees Broke<\/i> \u2013 and the music here was from Blanchard\u2019s most recent <i>Breathless <\/i>album;\u00a0 music inspired by the \u2018I Can\u2019t Breathe\u2019 campaign. The rhythm is sometimes on the funky side of jazz, but Blanchard is incapable of mediocrity and the intensity of both playing and composition made this one of the standout sessions of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>British jazz has always had a strong presence at Love Supreme.\u00a0 The great Partisans brought their driving, John Schofield influenced jazz-funk to the Big Top on Saturday.\u00a0 Manchester\u2019s Gogo Penguin, newly ennobled \u2013 well, signed to Blue Note \u2013 were as brilliant as we\u2019ve come to expect;\u00a0 the\u00a0 bowed bass under which the drums shuffle and pound, and over which pianist Chris Illingworth repeats his churning figures. Get The Blessing range from haunting, elegant simplicities to a kind of power quartet akin to Trio VD. The Big Top was filled to overflowing for Bill Laurance who played music from his two solo albums.\u00a0 There is an elegiac, film-music quality to Laurence\u2019s compositions , and the big chords and the swelling\u00a0 movement of the pieces was beautifully played to an enthusiastic crowd by Laurance, his rhythm section, and a string trio with French horn.<\/p>\n<p>Old-school soul came to Love Supreme via Diane Reeves, Candi Staton, Lisa Stansfield and a brilliant, barn-storming set from Chaka Khan who headlined Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Special mention must go to Haitus Kaiyote on the main stage on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 Singer Nai Palm and the group play a closely composed, almost costive R &amp; B, in which guitar, keys, bass and drums play small, beautifully integrated sections.\u00a0 They rarely stretch out and what solos there are, are few and far between.\u00a0 The overall effect, however, is both controlled and very funky. Nai Palm has a voice which is fragile and powerful at the same time, and the lyrics run through the compositions filling almost every corner.<\/p>\n<p>But this review must finish by writing about Hugh Masekela who brought proceedings to an end in the Big Top.\u00a0 He\u2019s 76, apparently, and if the years have slightly dented his wonderful playing, his showmanship and ability to engage a crowd have only increased in power.\u00a0 This power was shown most forcibly in his own introduction to the famous \u2018Freedom Train\u2019 which brought silence to the Big Top and reduced a number of the audience to tears. And he graced us by finishing his set with his great hit \u2018Grazing in the Grass\u2019.\u00a0 If Masekela has re-oriented his music to a funkier, more mainstream kind, in front of an audience he is still a very great performer indeed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Ian Pople\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Supreme, Glynde Place, Sussex.\u00a0 3rd \u2013 5th July &nbsp; There is a stunned silence around Glynde Place on the first Monday in July.\u00a0 People wander from the toilet blocks, and back and forth from the Wide Away Caf\u00e9 with a pinched look on their faces.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just that someone\u2019s taken their holiday away, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[15,283],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Love Supreme, 2015, reviewed by Ian Pople - The Manchester Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=4975\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Love Supreme, 2015, reviewed by Ian Pople - The Manchester Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Love Supreme, Glynde Place, Sussex.\u00a0 3rd \u2013 5th July &nbsp; 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