Storyteller (Marilyn Crispell album)

Storyteller is an album by pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Mark Helias, and drummer Paul Motian recorded in 2003 and released on the ECM label.[1]

Storyteller
Studio album by
Marilyn Crispell
Released2004
RecordedFebruary 2003
GenreAvant-garde jazz
Length60:52
LabelECM
ProducerManfred Eicher
Marilyn Crispell chronology
Amaryllis
(2000)		 Storyteller
(2004)		 Vignettes
(2007)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Village VoiceA–[3]

Reviewing for The Village Voice in September 2004, Tom Hull said:

After two decades of comparisons to Cecil Taylor, her third ECM record is deliberate, cautious, almost pretty. Paul Motian could take credit for taming the shrew, but more likely it was her own growing interest in Bill Evans that led her to Motian. He wrote most of the pieces, but exerts little control. Indeed, his subtle drumming is almost untethered to Crispell's piano. But at this slow pace, the logic of her playing, her knack for surprising sequences that make perfect sense once you’ve heard them, is as dazzling as her speed ever was.[3]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Storyteller is another triumph for Marilyn Crispell".[2]

Track listing
All compositions by Marilyn Crispell except as indicated
  1. "Wild Rose" - 4:13
  2. "Flight of the Bluejay" (Paul Motian) - 4:39
  3. "The Storyteller" (Motian) - 6:06
  4. "Alone" - 4:45
  5. "Harmonic Line" (Mark Helias) - 5:55
  6. "Cosmology 2" (Motian) - 5:39
  7. "Limbo" (Helias) - 6:54
  8. "Play" (Motian) - 5:13
  9. "The Sunflower" (Motian) - 3:59
  10. "Cosmology 1" (Motian) - 4:02
  11. "So Far, So Near" - 9:27
  • Recorded at Avatar Studios in New York City in February 2003

Personnel
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References
  1. ECM discography accessed November 14, 2011
  2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 14, 2011
  3. Hull, Tom (September 28, 2004). "Jazz Consumer Guide (2): The Caribbean Tinge". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 25, 2020 – via tomhull.com.
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