The Martin Hayes Quartet :: The Making Of The Blue Room
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Taking leaps into the unknown and relishing their unpredictability: Martin Hayes’s appetite for collaboration with musicians from across the spectrum of the tradition and beyond is insatiable.
His latest project is a head-turner. Prick up your ears and you’ll hear bass clarinet sidling up alongside fiddles (and Dennis Cahill’s guitar) so that tunes intimately known become something new. Opener The Boy in the Gap is a masterclass in interpretation that invigorates a familiar reel.
American jazz clarinettist Doug Wieselman and American classical violinist and viola player Liz Knowles are Hayes and Cahill’s dance partners, and the four engage in some fine musical moves. Present here in abundance, as it is in The Gloaming and in the duo’s repertoire, is that stealthy building of a tune: unearthing its melodic essence and letting it blossom slowly, with intent. Circling the tunes are the combined forces of Hayes’s deceptively simple fiddle lines and Wieselman’s intuitive embroidering, the bass clarinet amplifying the internal logic of the tune as if they’ve been lifelong bedfellows. Knowles’s mix of playfulness and counterpoint is a delight throughout. It’s yet another thought-provoking escapade to relish from Hayes
This was a happy UA-cam accident, getting to this film after watching Martin and Myles on a talk show segment.
Great u went looking and found it! Was such a joy to make.
I caught Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill playing as a duo at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz about 14 years ago. It was, of course, a wonderful performance; but what struck me most was the ddegree to which Dennis subordinated the typical guitarist urge to the requirements of the music. Many guitarists of any skill at all will show off a bit, even if it's tastefully done. But throughout the show, Dennis remained steadfast in his supporting role, playing nothing that was not intended to showcase Martin's fiddle play and the tune itself - until a moment came when they were about to kick off a tune, and Martin blanked on the melody. Dennis uncorked a 10-second fusillade of guitar to demonstrate the fiddle melody that left my jaw a-dangle. And then he went back to his supporting role, and there he remained, rock steady. Such admirable restraint, and such generous support, has rarely been my pleasure to behold.
well put.
@@55911061 my thoughts exactly. a pleasure to read.
Outstanding Music - Exquisite Filming & Editing - Impeccable Performance - Lovely Landscape & Compositional Tapestry Masterfully Layered Throughout in both Sight and Sound.
Truly, a wonderful delight for the senses. Thank You & All the Best!
May your chimney(s) smoke forever.
A beautiful film, really captures and combines the beauty of the the area, their personalities and of course the music where, watching it put me in a trance for 30 mins.
Thank you for this masterpiece!!!!
So wonderful!
This is great! Thank you!
Wonderful!!! Thank You so much for posting!!!
Incredible stuff, well done all.
Fucking unbelievable! She talks about the tunes being like an onion, with so many layers - thus so this film. Bravo!
merci infiniment..
Sonic Art 🙂♥️
Does anyone know the name of the tune at the end?
I think I've seen it called Castle Kelly
Agggh. Sorry, I spoke too soon. Castle Kelly is the second to last. Is the last one Foxhunter's Reel?