Birdwatching Anat Fort Trio & Gianluigi Trovesi

• 1 First Rays 02:18
• 2 Earth Talks 03:41
• 3 Not the Perfect Storm 06:33
• 4 It's Your Song 04:16
• 5 Jumpin' In 06:09
• 6 Milarepa, Pt. 1 01:39
• 7 Song of the Phoenix, Pt. 1 04:35
• 8 Song of the Phoenix, Pt. 2 04:32
• 9 Murmuration 05:27
• 10 Meditation for a New Year 04:47
• 11 Inner Voices 02:13
• 12 Sun 02:13
• Total Runtime 48:23

Info for Birdwatching

For her third ECM album, Israeli pianist Anat Fort augments her long-established trio - with bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider - with a special guest: Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi.

Fort and Trovesi have made a number of appearances together in recent years (from Italy's Novara Jazz Festival to the Tel-Aviv Opera House), to critical acclaim, and Birdwatching, with its lively bright music, takes their rapport to the next level. There is an alert sense of joy in the playing.

Of her album's title Anat Fort says, 'Many of my songs are inspired by movements of things in nature: animals, clouds, winds, water... I didn't know what this record would be called but when I listened to the finished master I knew it had to do with the movement of birds, and with watching, listening, waiting. It is as much about bird-watching outside as about watching that inner bird, the soul.'

Quartet music is interspersed with improvised solo piano as the story unfolds in a series of vignettes. Birdwatching was recorded at the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Anat Fort, piano
Gary Wang, double bass
Roland Schneider, drums
Gianluigi Trovesi, alto clarinet

Anat Fort
Leader Anat Fort was born near Tel Aviv and studied classical piano as a child. Also improvising and writing her own tunes from an early age she naturally gravitated toward jazz, although her pieces were also steeped, from the outset, in the colours and atmospheres of the Middle East. Formative influences included Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and “very much of the music on ECM” which she heard first as a teenager in the late 1980s. In the mid-1990s she came to the USA to study jazz, wanting to balance a natural tendency towards freer playing with a proper understanding of the tradition. Her teachers have included jazz greats Rufus Reid and Harold Mabern. She also studied briefly with Paul Bley. In the last several years she has become an influential figure on NYC’s alternative jazz scene, but is also a highly regarded player in her homeland. She now splits her time between Israel and the US.

Booklet for Birdwatching