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Rale Micic - Only Love Will Stay (2021) [Post-Bop]; FLAC (tracks)

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Rale Micic - Only Love Will Stay (2021) [Post-Bop]; FLAC (tracks)

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Artist: Rale Micic
Album: Only Love Will Stay
Genre: Post-Bop
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2021
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
  1. Only Love Will Stay
  2. Even Steven
  3. How Deep Is the Ocean
  4. Better Days Ahead
  5. January
  6. Savas
  7. Riverdale
  8. Linden Trees Are in Bloom

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Jazz guitarist and composer Rale Michich has followed a path characteristic of many European jazzmen who settled in the United States. A native of Belgrade, Michich (born 1975), having already acquired a good jazz reputation in his native Serbia, went to Boston in 1995 to study at the famous Berkeley College. Among his teachers there were such famous personalities as George Garzone and Bob Brookmeyer. In 2000, Michich moved to New York and over the years has become a prominent figure in the Big Apple jazz scene. Rale released his first author's album, Bridges, three years later, offering listeners a mixture of jazz with Balkan music. And already during the recording of the second album Serbia Michich was helped by such a prominent master as the trumpeter Tom Harell. Michitch played in his ensemble, worked with Greg Hutchinson, Don Friedman, Eric Alexander.

Today we present his new work Only Love Will Stay, Michich's second album for Whaling City Sound. To create it, Rale chose the chamber format of a jazz trio, and without a bassist. His guitar voice is assisted only by the Hammond organ, with the famous Jared Gold and drums (Jonathan Blake and Geoff Klapp) sitting at the keys. The album was made up of recordings of two sessions, in the fall of 2019 and in the summer of 2020, hence the line-up and two drummers, each of whom worked in one of the sessions.

Of the eight compositions that made up the album's program, five are the author's music by Rale Michich. His interpretations of John Abercrombie's Even Steven sound here (symptomatic: many compare Michich's playing style with Abercrombie, and, as he himself says, John's organ groups served as a model for this project), Irwin Berlin's classic How Deep Is The Ocean and Lipe Cvatu (Linden Trees Are In Bloom) fellow countryman, Serbian composer Goran Bregovic. This, however, does not limit the connection with the homeland in this project. Michich's opening and title track Only Love Will Stay also contains echoes of Balkan music. It seems to me that it was no coincidence that this play gave the name to the entire album. A very beautiful, warm, slightly sad melody, soulful sound of a guitar, delicate organ reprises - for me it has become a personal favorite of the album. A brief and aphoristic assessment of the entire project was given by Michich's partner Jared Gold: “In playing the guitar, Rale has a unique voice. He combines a very melodic approach with a keen knowledge of harmonies. His original compositions reflect his life experience and tell the listener about his roots ... ”It's hard to disagree.

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