The Kyle Shepherd Trio – A Dance More Sweetly Played (2024) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Join the Kyle Shepherd Trio on “A Dance More Sweetly Played” as they explore, collaborate and improvise on the ‘songs we like to play’. The album’s title is a dedication to the celebrated South African artist William Kentridge, with whom Shepherd collaborated on a joint-work “Waiting for Sybil” that has toured world-wide. In addition to ten Shepherd originals, perhaps most unexpected is the inclusion of an exquisite reading of Massive Attack’s ‘Teardrop’ and a deconstructed take of Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believing’, a favourite rock anthem that Shepherd describes as a ‘guilty pleasure’. ‘The inclusion of the Massive Attack and Journey tunes – that’s something out of character to me,’ observes Shepherd. The selection rests well within the grand jazz tradition of repurposing popular songs as vehicles for improvisation, thought, and pleasure.‘It just came down to playing some tunes that we like and we can flow with, so that we can be inspired and express ourselves in a very natural organic way,’ he says. ‘We walked away from the from the studio feeling like – you know, we actually really enjoyed playing this record!’

‘With this record, I felt less attached to any sort of predetermined concepts except that we would play some music that I wrote that we like – a selection of things that we like to play. It felt like a bit of a tonic – every musician gets a chance to breathe through the music, and the music just flows and moves as organically as we could make it.’

To hear one of South Africa’s foremost pianists play with intention, freedom and enjoyment, in the tradition and beyond it, is above all a gift to the listener, and Matsuli Music is proud to be able to share the Trio’s first album in a decade, A Dance More Sweetly Played.

“… it’s in his linking of international influences with his own local traditions that his strength lies.” Peter Bacon, The Jazz Breakfast [UK]

Tracklist:

1-1. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Liberation Movements (07:06)
1-2. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Teardrop (06:24)
1-3. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – For Oumou Sangaré (05:48)
1-4. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – A Dance More Sweetly Played (08:08)
1-5. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Don’t Stop Believing (04:41)
1-6. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Shozi (01:15)
1-7. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Neo Marabi (05:49)
1-8. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Amada, Pt. 1 (05:02)
1-9. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Amada, Pt. 3 (04:03)
1-10. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Theme from a Film (07:12)
1-11. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Theme from Unseen (05:45)
1-12. The Kyle Shepherd Trio – Africa Major (05:59)

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