Nels Cline: Lovers (for Philadelphia) | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA
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- Nels Cline has earned his place as a guitar hero for our times, with a track record stretching back four decades and a marquee gig with Wilco. But if you mainly associate him with squalls of feedback, you’re missing a big part of the picture.
Hear the radio episode: www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646736...
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by NATE CHINEN
Nels Cline has earned his place as a guitar hero for our times, with a track record stretching back four decades and a marquee gig with Wilco. But if you mainly associate him with squalls of feedback, you're missing a big part of the picture. "The Avant Romantic" is how Rolling Stone pegged him about a decade ago, in its list of Top 20 New Guitar Gods. And lately, Cline has been focusing his efforts, without pause or irony, on the romantic part of that equation.
Lovers, released on Blue Note in 2016, was Cline’s fond reclamation of "mood music" albums from midcentury, with his guitar in an earnest melodic role. It's a suave collaboration with trumpeter Michael Leonhart, who wrote the orchestrations for a handful of versatile players like cellist Erik Friedlander and bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck. As Cline put it at the time in a conversation with NPR's Fresh Air, Lovers was a project he'd been dreaming about for more than 25 years.
Lovers (for Philadelphia) didn't require such a long gestation. Commissioned by the nonprofit Ars Nova Workshop, it was a sequel of sorts to Lovers intended to reflect a clear sense of place -- the City of Brotherly Love, which of course has a great musical legacy not only as a jazz town but also an epicenter of soul. Cline made several trips to Philly for intensive research, visiting local institutions like the Curtis Institute of Music and the Germantown headquarters of the Sun Ra Arkestra. (He even helped create a Lovers saison at Tired Hands Brewing Company.)
The first and only performance of Lovers (for Philadelphia) took place at Union Transfer on June 2, and Jazz Night in America was there. See the video above for an up-close-and-personal view of the concert, and listen to our radio show for more insights on just how Cline and Leonhart made new tapestries of sound out of classic tunes like Benny Golson's "Whisper Not," McCoy Tyner's "Aisha," and The Delfonics' "La-La (Means I Love You)."
"I wanted it to be sweet but I didn't want it to be sugary," Cline says of the Lovers project at large. He strikes that balance on this love letter to a musical city -- which has now enfolded Cline in a reciprocal embrace.
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This one-time performance of 'Lovers (for Philadelphia)' was recorded live by Christopher Andrew McDonald at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA, on June 2, 2018.
SET LIST
3:30 - "Introduction/Diaphanois"
7:20 - "Beautiful Love"
11:38 - "Hairpin & Hatbox"
16:23 - "Snare, Girl"
22:54 - "Whisper Not/Let Me Love You by the Sea"
28:58 - "April Kisses"
37:57 - "The Philly Suite"
MUSICIANS
Nels Cline (guitar)
Michael Leonhart (conductor, trumpet, flugelhorn)
Ravi Best (trumpet)
Alex Cline (drums)
Jasper Dütz (tenor saxophone)
Amir ElSaffar (trumpet)
Alan Ferber (trombone)
Erik Friedlander (cello)
Ben Goldberg (woodwinds)
Devin Hoff (bass)
Yuka Honda (keyboard)
Carla Kihlstedt (violin)
Nicholas Millevoi (guitar)
JD Parran (woodwinds)
Charles Pillow (woodwinds)
Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon)
Stacey Shames (harp)
Will Shore (vibraphone)
Thumbnail photography: Stacey McDonald/Ars Nova Workshop
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“Lovers (for Philadelphia)” was produced and commissioned by Ars Nova Workshop.
Major support for “Lover (for Philadelphia)” has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Ars Nova Workshop is:
Mark Christman, Executive & Artistic Director
Celeste DiNucci, Director of Strategy & Development
Maddie Hewitt, Operations Manager
arsnovaworkshop.org
Special thanks:
Union Transfer, especially Sean Agnew, Toni Bourgeois and Tom Shebest
Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries, especially Aslaku Berhanu and Diane Turner
Brewerytown Beats
Tired Hands Brewing Company,especialy Rob Berliner, Jean Broillet, Mike Jones, Nick Martino, and Colin McFadden
DM Hotep
Marshall Allen
Danny Ray Thompson
Free Library of Philadelphia, especially Ray Banas, Dr. Gary Galván, and Linda Wood
Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, especially Steve Bryant and Lovett Hines
Fabric Workshop & Museum, especially Laila Jadallah, Petra Floyd, and Kate Abercrombie
Wagner Free Institute of Science, especially Lynn Dorwaldt
April Rose
Rushawn Stanely
Stephen Buono
Uri Caine
Curtis Institute of Music, especially Barbara Benedett and Kristina Wilson
Marc Hildenberger
Mike Hoffman
Jack McCarthy
Sid Sachs
Toby Seay
Val Shively
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The master at work!
Where is his signature Jazzmaster?!
the master could use a metronome
Unas Paragon the most ignorant comment I’ve ever heard.
@@savagehenry5158 you have no business listening to jazz 😂😂😂
9:41 The true meaning of multi-instrumentalism and virtuosity:
Nels Cline on drums and guitar simultaneously.
Helps to have a twin brother!
came to the comment just for this. thank you sir youre a saint
Nels does have a snare drum wrapped in a weird bag actually
Nels Cline is such a versatile guitar player: with electricity or without, with effects or without.
Mad Man Nels in a quiet mood . . . delightful! 😎
The most adorable live.
Not only the music, also the dog with the keyboardist Yuka Honda. :)
8:08
I love this record. I put it on before I sleep at night. Wonderful playing
This is just wonderful .
Wine for my ears .....
Beautiful !
How is it possible that I have discovered this jewel today??
thank goodness you did :D
love it// awesome jazzy mood music//very detailed and skillful compositions//great lyrical guitar and sound!!
so moving - what a great session
Thank you NPR!
gorgeous piece of music
Thank you!
great! Thanks!
i could tell it was his brother on drums just because they look so much alike
They're twins - Alex and Nels.
@@ryanpereira6507 i guess that´s why it is so obvious
@@modestoney1577 😂
It would be nice if they at least put the ads in at the beginning and ending of songs.
oh man he came a long way from doing Coltrane tribute shows at some tiny venue
good to hear acoustic big bands once in a while (btw, I know the guitars are amped).
World's hippest dog at 18:50...
His wife, their dog, his brother . . . nice gig if you can get it! 😊
I’ll consider this as a “sweet but not sugary” documentary.
I am thoroughly enjoying this video while I surf youtube, does anyone else hear a bit of Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds, Beatles Rubber Soul and some Steve Reich?
Justin McInerny You're high dude.
No
wow
my fav part was 0:00 to 50:28
👍👍👍
how great would it be to do a project about love, with our wife brother and puppy onstage
Micheal Stipe killin it at conductor!
Love that guitar….Gibson Barney Kessel model. Played one, I mean, ‘held’ one once. As a surf guitarist with 7 months of incredible skill, I didn’t know what to do with it. 🙄
that gibson barney kessel is a beaut!
So good - also respects to rhythm guitar player - 11 minutes in and I think I saw a sliver of his forehead so far. Lol
3:30 - "Introduction/Diaphanois"
7:20 - "Beautiful Love"
11:38 - "Hairpin & Hatbox"
16:23 - "Snare, Girl"
22:54 - "Whisper Not/Let Me Love You by the Sea"
28:58 - "April Kisses"
37:57 - "The Philly Suite"
What is the name of the song that starts @44:00 ???
Bring your dog to work day! =]
会話でなく 音域に託す色々な人生,,,;///\\\\：,,、イイねー
Basically what would happen if Stan Getz and Bill Evans had 10 kids.
0:15 no. 81 Lou Reed, are u freaking kidding me??? Come on!
as a musician he ws. def impactful but as a guitar player.....it gets pretty iffy, I mean...I dont know, criteria can be different you know
Lou Reed was a genius imo, and one of my favorite artists ever, perhaps only eclipsed by Bowie, but it’s pretty absurd to rank him above Nels Cline as a guitar player, let alone even have him on the “100 best guitar players”. If we’re talking “most important guitar players”, okay, now you can absolutely make a strong argument for including him, not only in the top 100, but almost definitely in the top 20, maybe even top 10, but when it comes to technical ability, he just doesn’t belong anywhere near the top 100, sorry...
Personally, I’d put Nels Cline a lot higher than 82, but that’s my bias, bc I love most of the things he plays, whatever the band/genre/project.
If you ever get an opportunity to see him shred live, I highly recommend it. I saw him with Wilco almost ten years ago, and honestly just watching him go ballistic was worth the very high price I payed getting tickets off scalpers for 4-5 times the box office price... ✌️
Yeah the guy who practically invented punk guitar techniques should never be rated above a guy in Wilco 😂
the quality of the music is good however(i´m so sorry to say it)I hear some intonation problems!
you mean the high b, at 30:25,. Vintage guitars, have great tone, but can be iffy.
I’ll consider this as a “sweet but not sugary” documentary.