Uri Caine - Calibrated Thickness (2016)

Tracklist

01. Manahatta (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
02. Woke up This Morning (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
03. Icicles (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
04. Submission (feat. Clarence Penn, Mark Helias & Kirk Knuffke)
05. Golem (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
06. Bleeding Heart (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
07. Night Wrestler (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
08. Climb to the Top (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
09. Hidden Glances (feat. Mark Helias, Kirk Knuffke & Clarence Penn)
10. Scatterbrain Suite (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
11. He Said She (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
12. Sticks and Stones (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
13. Time in Between (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)
14. Shadow of a Doubt (feat. Mark Helias, Kirk Knuffke & Clarence Penn)
15. Downward Spiral (feat. Clarence Penn & Mark Helias)


Bass - Mark Helias
Design [Cover Design] - Jan Caine
Drums - Clarence Penn
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] - Grant Valentine
Engineer [Audio Engineer] - Chris Allen (4)
Guest [Special Guest], Cornet - Kirk Knuffke
Music By - Uri Caine
Photography By - Bill Douthart
Piano - Uri Caine
Technician [Piano Tuning] - Ed Wedberg

Uri Caine is best known as a genre-warping, restlessly inventive pianist and sonic thinker whose every project is as predictably unpredictable as the last. But the piano trio remains a touchstone for Caine, who returns regularly to apply his expansive imagination to that core jazz format. On his latest album, Calibrated Thickness, Caine debuts a new trio with two longtime collaborators: drummer Clarence Penn and bassist Mark Helias. "There's a lot of freedom in the piano trio," Caine says. "It's very open and loose. We keep the structure together, but within that I like the freedom it offers." Though the title is a phrase that Caine stumbled across in a technical manual, Calibrated Thickness vividly captures the sense of controlled dynamics and calculated density that this trio so ably masters. The album's 15 songs are in a sense a distillation of the musical identity that Caine, Penn and Helias have forged over the last few years as a trio (in addition to many more in different contexts). Live, Caine's memorable compositions are landmarks that the trio happens upon in the course of lengthy improvisations, fluidly morphing from one tune to the next at a moment's whim.

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