Duality

SOSRB200514
ROB BUCKLAND - Saxophones PETER LAWSON - Piano

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"I’ve been wanting to make this CD for a while now, something that really brings together where I am musically these days., but it seems to me that sometimes things have their own way of working out. You just have to go with the flow. My life as a saxophonist has always been a double-life, artificially compartmentalised into two worlds - a classical and jazz duality - and from the beginning, I have been striving to find a way to consolidate the best that both of these worlds has to offer. The music on this disc all came together in the last 6 months, as I looked at creating a disc that truly felt like my musical home, a classically rooted disc, embracing and celebrating all of the nuance and inflection of a jazz performance, with a resonance for today’s audience, today’s music. Right now, there really seems to be a coming together, a co-incidence, of performer/composers, musicians with experience and understanding of the disciplines and freedoms of both worlds, and a consequent blurring of edges, creating a music that is part of everything, music that really defies traditional and outdated labels. A music that feels like now. Each of the five composers on this CD are musicians whose work I have long admired, as both performers and composers, but even more importantly have all become friends and colleagues throughout my career to date. I have performed and recorded with each of them, and always felt a strong connection to their music. In countless conversations with each of them throughout last year, I had often discussed my ideas for a new CD and the repertoire slowly came into focus as each piece began falling into place and in July 2014, Peter and I spent two days in the studio recording the music on this disc. Framing existing music that I have wanted to record for a while alongside newly written works, some of which arrived literally days before the recordings, it really felt as if the project was taking on a life of it’s own as it reached completion, as all of the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. I truly hope that you enjoy listening to this CD as much as Peter and I enjoy playing the wonderful music that these composers have written, music that really does feel like home to me - a complimentary duality that feels like both the realisation of my musical journey so far, and the beginning of something new." (RB)