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David Friesen - Testimony

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Format: CD
Rel. Date: 11/20/2020
UPC: 805558280924

Testimony
Artist: David Friesen
Format: CD
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Prelude
2. Still Waters
3. Meaningful
4. Distant Shores
5. Tribute
6. Sequence
7. Another Time, Another Place
8. Time Never Ends
9. Deep South Blues
10. My Faith, My Life
11. Make Believe
12. New Ballad
13. Sailing
14. Going Forth
15. Pumpkin
16. New Hope
17. Lament For The Lost/Procession

More Info:

Once in a great while, a musician emerges with such authority and such seemingly effortless originality that his place in the front ranks of his instrument is unquestioned. So it is with David Friesen. - Nat Hentoff. A major international jazz figure for over 50 years, bassist-composer David Friesen continues his unflagging process of creating new defining works, with the ambitious, expansive, and deeply personal musical explorations found on Testimony. Through the desire to better understand his Mother's Ukrainian heritage, and with inspired leg-work from his Czech-based assistant, Natalie Digtyar, Friesen found himself on a 2015 tour of family landmarks in Smila, Ukraine, fully researched and led by a television crew and the local historical museum. Meeting Oleksandr Pirozhenko, director of the National Academic Symphonic Band of Ukraine, set in motion the collaboration heard here, beginning with a sold-out 2016 "homecoming" concert in Smila's Concert Hall, followed by this live recording from Kiev's National Philharmonic Hall in December, 2018. Arrangements of Friesen's profoundly spiritual compositions unfold, offering passages exploding with orchestral grandeur alongside lone whispers from solo piano, vibes or bass, and intimate quartet vignettes, all reflecting the myriad emotions exposed through his journey of ancestral discovery.
        
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