Many More Days Third Reel

• 1 Gilberto Stimmung 03:31
• 2 Afterwards 03:03
• 3 Fourth Reel 03:11
• 4 Simple 03:34
• 5 Lara's Song 04:46
• 6 Strand 02:58
• 7 White 02:27
• 8 Happy People 02:48
• 9 Many More Days 04:18
• 10 Hill 02:55
• 11 Fast Forward 03:15
• 12 Two-Part Chorale 03:15
• 13 White Epilogue 01:22
• Total Runtime 41:23

Info for Many More Days

The second ECM album from Swiss/Italian trio Third Reel (comprising reedsman Nicolas Masson, guitarist Roberto Pianca and drummer/pianist Emanuele Maniscalco), 'Many More Days' takes its open-plan music to the next level.

Each of the players bring music into Third Reel, and each of them has his own distinct compositional signature, but from the outset their pieces are 'always conceived as material for multiple, unpredictable developments.' Compositional guidelines are like gateways into fields to explore. Masson's elegant clarinet and lean-toned tenor are emphasized, Maniscalco floats between drums and piano, quietly lyrical on both instruments, and Pianca is most often a kind of orchestrator-in-action, subtly enfolding the interaction with swelling sustained chords. Like the eponymous 2013 debut album, 'Many More Days' was recorded at RSI in Lugano, this time with Manfred Eicher producing.

'A thoroughly engaging set, with the accent very much on texture and space.' (Jazzwise)

'Third Reel is as original as it is absorbing, richly rewarding repeated immersion in its highly individual sonic world.' (London Jazz News)

'Strong musical imaginations are at work here...a very promising debut.' (Jazz Camera)

'An absorbing and often beautiful recording that deserves to be heard widely. These beguiling snapshots speak of even greater things to come.' (The Jazzmann)

Nicolas Masson, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet
Roberto Pianca, guitar
Emanuele Maniscalco, drums, piano

Emanuele Maniscalco
Born in Brescia in 1983, and largely self-taught, Emanuele Maniscalco took up piano at eight and drums at twelve. While still in his teens he impressed Enrico Rava at a gig in Siena, was drafted into the trumpeter’s workshop band, and ended up drumming regularly with Enrico between 2004 and 2007. He has also played extensively with Stefano Battaglia and occasionally with other leading figures of the new Italian jazz scene, such as Stefano Bollani, Gianluca Petrella, and Giovanni Guidi (he played on Guidi’s critically-heralded trio album “Tomorrow Never Knows”). In recent years he has recommitted himself to the piano and today splits his time between the two instruments. Maniscalco’s current projects include a new duo with US bassist Thomas Morgan. His albums as a leader on other labels include “From Time To Time – The Music of Paul Motian” for El Gallo Rojo Records.

Guitarist Roberto Pianca,
whose palette, in Third Reel, embraces thick post-Hendrix distortion as well as delicate Jim Hall filigree, was born in 1984. He studied at the Scuola di Musica Moderna in Lugano and the Amsterdam Conservatory and privately in New York with saxophonist John O'Gallagher and pianist Russ Lossing. Active in jazz, contemporary classical, folk and rock contexts he has played and worked with a wide variety of artists including Joey Baron, Savina Yannatou, Sienna Dahlen, Yuri Goloubev, Jake Saslow, Colin Stranahan, Ben Syversen, Flin Van Hemmen, Dan Kinzelman, Stefano Senni, Otto Tausk, Wiek Hijmans, Tim Brady, Seth Josel and many others.

Nicolas Masson,
born 1972, dived into improvised music at the deep end, at 20 encountering Cecil Taylor and J. R. Mitchell in New York and subsequently studying with Frank Lowe and Makanda Ken McIntyre. “It gave me insights into the relationship of free playing and the jazz tradition that might otherwise have been difficult to access as a European.” Back in Geneva he studied at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique and took masterclasses with Lee Konitz, Dave Douglas and Misha Mengelberg. Most of his own bands have been international in line-up and he made his recording debut as a leader with his New York quartet with Russ Johnson, Eivind Opsvik and Mark Ferber. Later incarnations of the quartet featured Gerald Cleaver and Ted Poor. His band Parallels with Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Lionel Friedli recorded for Clean Feed in 2009, and the following year, he assembled a new band with Ben Monder, Patrice Moret and Ted Poor. A leading figure on the Swiss new jazz scene, Masson has worked with a broad international cast of musicians including Kenny Wheeler, Josh Roseman, Kris Davis, Otomo Yoshihide, Tom Arthurs, Scott DuBois and many more. Masson’s bold and resolute tenor sax variously fronts Third Reel’s sound, hews closely to the guitar lines or agitates inside the group texture. “In this group you can take chances and know that you can trust your colleagues to support you and develop the musical ideas that arise.”

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