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Tomajazz:
Please, tell us what kind of music we are going to enjoy in your
visit to Spain with the Bedrock Trio, plus DJ Olive with electronics
and turntables.
Uri Caine: We will play music from our Cd,new pieces and
completely impovised pieces.
Tomajazz: In an interview made in 2002 you said that you were preparing
another record with the Bedrock Trio. Now we are in 2004, and the
album is not available yet. Do you have already recorded it?
Uri Caine: We have recoded some music
and are planning to record more this year.
Tomajazz: Now we are living times in which we are surrounded
by computers and the internet is now a very important tool of knowledge.
What kind of influence has technology in your music nowadays?
Uri Caine: Technology and computers are just tools
for each musician to choose from in creating music.I love the new
possibilities!
Tomajazz: In your work we can find influences of Jewish
music, classical, pop music (in a broader sense) and, off course,
the jazz classics. Using all these influences, what direction Uri
Caine’s music/jazz is taking?
Uri Caine: Why try and define "direction"in
words? I am more interested in the music in the moment.
Tomajazz: A very important part of your record production
is dedicated to work on classical musicians’ repertory, like
Gustav Mahler, Beethoven, Wagner or Schumann. Which other projects
related with classical music have you in mind?
Uri Caine: I am working on a version of Otello
based on Verdi's music.Also possibly De
Falla who I love.
Tomajazz: How do you see your projects based on “classical”
composers in relation to what was called the “third stream”?
Uri Caine: These projects come from wanting to
have different structures for group improvisation besides the more
standard jazz forms.
Tomajazz: Is classical music a way of developing creativity in jazz?
Uri Caine: All music can in its own way develop
imagination in another music-it's up to individuals to make these
connections.
Tomajazz: Your first two records were tributes to the music of Thelonious
Monk and Herbie Hancock. You have also paid an homage to the Tin
Pan Alley’s songbook. Have you planned a similar project based
on a jazz repertory?
Uri Caine: My next CD is with a trio with Drew
Gress and Ben Perowsky recorded live at
the Village Vanguard -we play some standards but mostly original
pieces.
Tomajazz: How do you see the present situation of jazz?
Uri Caine: It is a rich period with many interesting and
intriguing musicians around the world.
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