Description

Musicians:
Pascal Niggenkemper double bass
Simon Nabatov piano
Gerald Cleaver drums
Recorded on March 16, 2010 by Christian Heck at Loft in Kln
Mixed on October 30, 2010 by Christian Heck at Tonart Studio in Kerpen-Horrem
Mastered on December 29, 2010 by Jim Clouse at Park West Studios in Brooklyn
Design by Oskaras Anosovas
Producer Danas Mikailionis
Co-producer Valerij Anosov

Upcoming Hurricane is a new group in a traditional form, a particular concatenation of musicians that gelled with remarkable speed and which brings its own strong personality to the idea of the piano trio. It has a layered rhythmic dynamism that comes directly from the tradition and the exploding, unfettered energy of free improvisation. It was the young bassist Pascal Niggenkempers idea to put together this band with the brilliant veterans Simon Nabatov and Gerald Cleaver, and its a sign of both Niggenkempers skills and his prescience that the group possesses the depth, vitality and vision that it does.
Stuart Broomer

The impressive Lithuanian label No Business also shared some terrific Hemphill music last year, releasing a double album called Live at Kassiopeia that features solos and duets by Hemphill and great German bassist Peter Kowald. It was recorded live in 1987 in Wuppertal, Germany (the bassists hometown), and its all totally improvised. The two players interact with an easy rapportfew European free-jazz musicians worked more extensively and naturally with their American counterparts than Kowald, and Hemphill was among the most open-minded figures to emerge from the 70s jazz sceneeven as their slightly different approaches create a nice tension. Kowald doesnt use repetition like Wadud does, preferring a more muscular and propulsive style a la William Parker, and Hemphill adapts with a rangier kind of playing. Live at Kassiopeia captures a side of Hemphill that his studio work rarely explored at such lengththe centerpiece of disc two is a single cut that runs more than 36 minutes.