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Change of Heart
Martin Speake | ECM

The roots of the "Change of Heart" project go back to 1993, when English
saxophonist Martin Speake, for many years an admirer of Paul Motian’s music
(he has cited Motian’s trio with Frisell and Lovano as his "favourite band in jazz"),
sent some of his own work to the great American drummer. Paul responded with
enthusiasm, and a tour of Britain was quickly set up, in a new group that included Mick Hutton on bass. The ’93 group played both Speake’s and Motian’s pieces, and excited the press. In The Guardian, John Fordham wrote that, "Speake’s saxophone sound is a mixture of fragile, silvery high-register playing and a plush, flugelhorn-like mid-range, and his momentum has an unswerving resolution of tempo. In these respects, he resembles a Fifties Cool School improviser, but his phrasing represents a far more contemporary chemistry of long zigzagging lines and unexpected resolutions...Motian’s light, impulsive touch lent buoyancy to everything, but the London musicians sounded as if they’d worked with him for years...".
The quartet made two tours of Britain before heading to Oslo to make "Change of Heart", under Manfred Eicher’s direction. Inside Speake’s well-crafted compositions, it is the interaction between Stenson’s rolling piano and Motian’s capricious drums that gives the group its unique impetus, but bassist Mick Hutton also has many strong moments - ‘earthing’ the music, providing an emotional undertow, his choice of notes occasionally reminiscent of Charlie Haden. The leader’s acerbic alto hovers over the turbulent waves stirred by his comrades.

Martin Speake, saxophone
Bobo Stenson, piano
Mick Hutton, bass
Paul Motian, drums

The Healing Power Of Intimacy
Change Of Heart
Barefaced Thieves
Venn
Buried Somewhere
In The Moment
Three Hours
In Code

Release date: April 21, 2006

Recorded April 2002
ECM 1831

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