For the past 10 years Søren Møller
has lived in New York. Now he is coming back to Denmark.
With this album title he indicates
two things:
The Résumé is the gathering of
important highlights and in English ‘resume’ is the word for picking up what’s
been interrupted.
The close collaboration with
highly-respected-New-York-saxophone-player Dick Oatts is an important part of
Møller’s history and naturally it takes up quite some place. That’s why he really
gets room to play on the album.
Their collaboration has a very
unique voice on the contemporary jazz scene. Søren Møller is a romantic and a
lyricist as a composer. He has shown us that before. Oatts plays with an
edge. He is on the beat!
Møller has brought strings in on
several numbers and it suits the music. It brings a certain kind of piece which
makes the compositions from Møller breath.
The added life makes his piano
playing soar above it all. It becomes a Danish summer day with blue skies and
birds flying and falling without the least of cares.
The album belongs in the same rare
category as the two duo-albums Søren Møller and Dick Oatts previously have
produced.
This album is recorded in New York.
Henry Cole is behind the drums while Luques Curtis handles the bass.
Review: Niels Overgård. Translation: DSI Swinging Europe
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