Jazz Cafe London England

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Jazz Cafe London England
Just nine days before stepping onto the stage with Bill Bruford and Tony Levin, Trey Gunn and Robert Fripp had been recording ProjeKct Two’s Space Groove with Adrian Belew - a double album with Ade playing drums! It was an exciting time to be a Crimson fan given the liberating and exploratory nature of the ProjeKcts venture.

The four nights at the Jazz Café provided a great opportunity for UK fans and those from further abroad to see the second ProjeKct attempting to work its way out KC’s creative stalemate.

Perhaps the most different-sounding of the ProjeKcts on account of Bill’s acoustic drums presence and jazzy inclinations, it’s Bruford who often provides the shape of many of the improvisations. 1i2 charts a shifting line between rock and jazz made all the more porous thanks to Fripp’s use of an Hammond organ-like setting and the mournful tones of Levin’s bowed bass.

As many observers commented at the time, Gunn’s contributions are revelatory. Whilst the meaning of the “Bite Me Bagel Boy” message that ran across the display screen of his rig may have caused heads to be scratched, there was nothing enigmatic or obscure about Gunn’s playing on this or any other of the nights – check out the buzz-saw solo on 1i3.

Of course it doesn’t always work. Not everything that starts off leads to a satisfactory resolution and sometimes the choices made on the fly turn out to be the wrong ones. Yet for every moment that clunks and falls to the fall unloved and unwanted, there are many more to carry the listener aloft.
Jazz Cafe London England

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TRACK
TIME
01
1 i 1
03:58
02
1 i 2
09:11
03
1 i 3
08:54
04
1 i 4
10:44
05
1 i 5
06:03
06
1 i 6
08:05
01
1 ii 1
06:49
02
1 ii 2
09:01
03
1 ii 3
05:55
04
1 ii 4
04:54
05
1 ii 5
08:51
06
1 ii 6
08:05
07
1 ii 7
08:58

P119971201London - Simon Calkin

BROWSE SHOWS WITH PHOTOS

Written by Andrew Thomas
Excitement, uncertainty, inspiration, frustration
The first night of ProjeKct One, the beginning of an exploration, and it's...well, it's a beginning. The first night is tentative, probing, tantalizing, but it's not a confident dive right in. The opening minutes set some wonderful expectations, but 1 i 2 and 1 i 3 struggle to take flight. The atmosphere and tonal directions are there, but the string players aren't in sync yet and some of Bruford's jazzier fills are making it hard for them to find a groove. So they back off and get ambient w...
Written by William Jenks
Night 1: A bit noodly, but still interesting.
Two quick remarks: (1) If you are a Bruford fan, there is a lot of Brufordism in this show for you to enjoy. Not fancy all the time, but unmistakeable and inventive; (2) Levin (I assume) plays some stuff way,way down low that is fun to really hear, so this is best heard on nice speakers or good headphones that can play 20-40 Hz. The first few tracks here are more "noodly" than my favorites (improvised or not). They are seeking direction and just playing something, or at least that's how it ...
Written by Christopher DeVito
Jazz Cafe 12/01/97
The ProjeKcts were presented as "research and development" arms of King Crimson, but I quickly found that I had no interest in listening to them on those terms. Instead, I simply listen to each ProjeKct on its own terms, as a musical end in itself. The ProjeKcts were primarily improvising groups; this means the tunes don’t always (or even often) lead to a "proper" resolution, or follow the rules of composition -- or even "good taste" (the enemy of art). This is a positive attribute. Proj...
Written by Dan Summers
10 years ago tonight
Tonight, 1 December 2007, is the 10 year anniversary of the first ProjeKct One show at the Jazz Cafe. I’m going to play the CD download tonight in it’s honor [as with the other nights the next few days].
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