Paul Clarvis, Liam Noble – Starry Starry Night
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Paul Clarvis – drums
Liam Noble - piano
1 LP, standard sleeve
Limited edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Pallas
Label : Pure Pleasure
Original Label : Village Life
Recorded 1st June 2006 at Abbey Road Studio One
Engineered by Andy Dudman
Produced by Paul Clarvis
Mastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios, London
Originally released in 2008 (as a CD)
Reissued in 2012
Tracks:
Side A:
- Mood Indigo
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Dear Someone
- Maple Leaf Rag
- Vincent
- Poor Butterfly
Side B:
- Whispering
- So Long, FLW
- Ebraceable You
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
- Paris
Reviews:
Both Liam Noble and Paul Clarvis are fully equipped and seasoned professionals , at the top of their respective games as pianist and percussionist. They are permanently in demand in any number of contexts. But the Starry Starry Night duo project seems special, personal to both of them. This was a very happy gig.
I had found the CD addictive. It has received a lot of attention and got some deservedly very good reviews. (It is also available on LIMITED EDITION VINYL, I hear good reports of that too!)
But, as ever, the live experience proved more complete. Not only because it delivered to the listener/viewer a good sense of how the interplay of Noble’s and Clarvis’ contrasting personalities works. But above all because the live experience brought out the particular humour and laughter which a musical friendship at this level of attainment can bring.
The contrast was there from the moment the two took the stand. Clarvis talked about the opening number: Ellington’s Mood Indigo. But it wasn’t just talk. He also sang the monotone third trumpet part to Mood Indigo, which he remembered note-for-note from his days as a youngster in the Silver Street, Enfield, Boys Brigade band. And he didn’t just sing. He also fixed his now regular collaborator, trumpet great Henry Lowther, with a smile as he did so. It was a poignant moment, revealing the journey travelled. “That’s why I gave up the trumpet,” said Clarvis, the smile still fixed on Lowther.
And then the music started. A slow number like this finds Noble completely absorbed in his phenomenal craft. He doesn’t always go for eye contact on the stand. But he has a unique way of completely inhabiting a tune, of communicating from deep inside it, of re-inventing its twists and turns from within it. This opening number found him at his most thoughtful and Bill Evansish, while Clarvis’ fluid and creative brushwork had every bit of the infinite subtlety of a Joey Baron or a Paul Motian.
But I want to return to my thought about Noble’s and Clarvis’ thorough-going professionalism, which for me was the hallmark of the evening. These two know from experience, in their very different ways, how to pull in the attention of an audience.
I know I shall hold in the memory the unique experience of having heard a Professor of pianoforte from Birmingham Conservatoire- on Steinway- and a Professor of percussion from the Royal Academy of Music -on spoons- skipping their way through the Country Waltz from “Brother Where Art Thou.”
But above all I shall hold in my mind from last night at the Vortex the faces of two small children accompanied by their parents. Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag had both of them completely captivated. They were smiling, and I sensed that without all those grown-ups around, both of their young faces would have burst out into laughter.
This music, live, played by professionals such as Noble and Clarvis who put their hearts and souls into it, has communicative power, joy and humour. Maybe grown-ups get in the way, and it takes a six year-old to understand such things.” London Jazz News, April 2009
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.0 / 5