ABSTRACT
One of the most versatile pianists in contemporary jazz is Uri Caine. The American pianist Uri Caine mingled electronics with his piano trio Bedrock. In February 2002, Uri Caine brings a most unusual jazz ensemble to Britain for a single London concert in Magnus Lindberg's series. It is Caine's Primal Light project, which reinterprets the music of Gustav Mahler in an improvising jazz context. Together with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Ben Perowsky, Uri Caine opened for Charlie Haden during last summer's Barbican Jazz series, and subsequently returned for a short autumn tour. One of the better musical jokes of Uri's treatment of the Goldberg Variations is the snoring effect produced by DJ Olive: an oblique reference to the variations having originally been commissioned for an insomniac. Uri Caine learned from Winter and Winter's engineer Adrian von Ripka about creating soundscapes, aural portraits of the kind he attempted in Rio, and tried something similar in the open air in Venice.
