Places

Tracklist

1. Winnipesaukee5:28
2. Willow Weep For Me6:09
3. Malumba Yeo3:54
4. Engiadina4:52
5. Algonquin Land4:30
6. Walden Pond3:57
7. Bye Bye Blackbird4:56
8. Trains7:00
9. Skagen5:56
10. Mayflower
11. Indian Summer
12. Charles River
13. Salem 1692
14. Transcendental Dance

Personnel & credits

• Patrick Sommer (2)Bass
• Tony RenoldDrums
• Peter BürliExecutive-Producer
• Michael Bucher (2)Guitar
• Michael Bucher (2)Kalimba
• Andreas NeresheimerMixed By, Mastered By
• Rodolfo SacchiPhotography By
• Tony RenoldPhotography By [Cover], Producer
• Michael GassmannTrumpet, Effects
• Silvan JegeVocals

About this record

Genre

Jazz

Style

Contemporary Jazz

Discogs

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Press

“places, colours and landscapes in the manner of Cezanne”All About Jazz (AAJ Italy Staff) ↗

Reception

Critical reception for this small-label Swiss date is thin. The one substantive professional review I could confirm is from All About Jazz (AAJ Italy Staff), published 13 March 2013. It treats "Places" as drummer Tony Renold's first album as leader, drawing on compositions written over roughly twenty years, and frames the music as descriptive program music about places, colours and landscapes "in the manner of Cezanne" — with Swiss alpine lakes as a recurring image (quoting Thoreau's notion of lakes as the "eyes of the earth"). The review notes the quartet moves across varied styles rather than a single idiom. I found no English-language AllMusic editorial review, and no confirmable coverage in Down Beat, JazzTimes, Musica Jazz, jazz'n'more, jazzthing or Concerto for this specific title. Everything else online is catalog/retailer listing data (Amazon, clicmusique, Discogs, Radio Swiss Jazz, Pandora/Spotify), not criticism. NOTE on disambiguation: praise was attributed to this album only where the source explicitly names the Tony Renold Quartet / "Places"; I did not transfer generic artist praise, and the credited trumpeter is the Swiss jazz player Michael Gassmann (not the classical musicologist).

Background

Recording/concept context confirmable from listings and the AAJ review: "Places" (Unit Records UTR 4305, released 23 September 2011, ~57 min, 10 tracks) is Tony Renold's debut as a leader. Personnel: Tony Renold (drums), Michael Gassmann (trumpet and effects), Michael Bucher (guitar; kalimba on track 7), Patrick Sommer (bass), with guest vocalist Silvan Jeger on tracks 2, 8 and 10. The program is place-themed, including "Trains," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Winnipesaukee," "Walden Pond," a multi-part "New England Suite" (Mayflower / Indian Summer / Charles River / Salem 1692 / Transcendental Dances), "Skagen," "Malumba Yeo," "Willow Weep for Me," "Algonquin Land" and "Engiadina" — a New England / Thoreau-Transcendentalist and Swiss-Alpine landscape concept. Specific recording date, studio and producer were not confirmable from available sources.