[contextly_auto_sidebar id=”k7mZhMxOjnZmQq1kvc5Ze9SM1WuNoSo4″] Stefano Bollani, Joy In Spite Of Everything (ECM The Italian pianist, his Danish rhythm section mates and two American stars emphasize the joy of the title, but Bollani\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album also has moments of thoughtful stateliness. Tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund join Bollani in various […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bollani](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Bollani-Joy-In-Spite....jpg\")
<\/a>The Italian pianist, his Danish rhythm section mates and two American stars emphasize the joy of the title, but Bollani\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album also has moments of thoughtful stateliness. Tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund join Bollani in various combinations from duo to quintet. Bollani\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eight compositions reflect inspiration from the Caribbean, Africa, bebop and his fertile imagination. With its springboards of harmonic changes, the rhythmically intricate \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Pope No Party\u00e2\u20ac\u009d opens up for inspired improvisation by Bollani, Turner and Frisell. In \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vale Teddy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Worthy Teddy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) the Teddy Wilson influence is apparent in Bollani\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exquisite keyboard touch. As for that stateliness, it illumines \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vale Teddy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Las hortensias,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d both with memorable choruses by Turner. The album is an ideal companion to his recent Lathe of Heaven<\/em><\/a>. ECM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sound quality is superb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"