$20.00
The definitive “live” recording of the Erskine/Pasqua/Carpenter collaboration, featuring jazz standards and band originals. The music on this 2 CD set is beautifully captured by engineer Rich Breen.
Description
There’s a Zen-like quality to this music. It’s unhurried … though the energy is there in the concentration one feels. Erskine’s quietness and discretion at the drumset is deceptive. He often reminds me of a painter of those Japanese watercolors: simplicity, economy, subtlety, and getting it the way it has to be in one go … close attention reveals shimmering lights in its depths.
– Thomas Storer
The musical cachet of this superbly recorded album lays with its pervasive lyricism, harmonic savvy, and rhythmic ease … Musical magic …
– R.A. Roberts
Your identity could get blurred while taking in this trio, Aei they may seem to be inside your head, accompanying your thoughts rather than guiding them … (they) meld so seamlessly that they all sound like one instrument … Erskine can get 99 distinct shadings out of every skin and cymbal, while insinuating a rhythm you can feel in your bones even when nobody seems to be playing one … (a) dreamy two-disc release ..
– Greg Burk, LA Weekly
Contained herein is a genuine L.A. Story … on two CDs, dubbed “West Side” and “East Side,” Pasqua, Carpenter and Erskine show a strong interactive chemistry, spaciousness and melodic instincts … in all, the album suggests a new West Coast cool … “Live at Rocco’ is a tough beauty in the shadow of Mulholland.
The definitive “live” recording of the Erskine/Pasqua/Carpenter collaboration, featuring jazz standards and band originals. The music on this 2 CD set is beautifully captured by engineer Rich Breen.
CD1:
- To Love Again
- Riff Raff
- Caribe (intro)
- Caribe (body)
- Life Today
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Greta
- Bulgaria
CD 2:
- How About You?
- Autumn Rose
- Pure & Simple
- All of You
- Children
- Milagro
- Taiowa
Personnel: Peter Erskine: drums; Alan Pasqua: piano; David Carpenter: double-bass.
