Artist: H Duo & HBH Trio (David Haney, David Bajda & Jorge Hernaez)
Title: Q Sessions
Cat Number: SLAMCD576
Label, Year Released: SLAM Productions, 2017
Format: CD & all digital platforms
Barcode: 5028386621324
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Pianist David Haney‘s fourth SLAM CD release, ‘Q Sessions’, gives an insight into his long standing collaboration with Argentine musicians, in particular bassist Jorge Hernaez.
Haney has previously recorded with musicians such as Julian Priester, Andrew Cyrille and Bernard Purdie. Haney and Hernaez have worked together regularly since 2002, performing in the USA, Argentina and Chile. Disc One of ‘Q Sessions’, is a live recording of this duo at the 2015 Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival. On Disc Two, guitarist David Bajda joins the duo in concert in Mendoza. All the material is spontaneously composed.
He writes: “In 2002, I was invited by jazz photographer, Jorge Lardone to perform in concerts throughout Argentina. He wrote to me that I would not get rich off the tour, but I would be treated very well. Fourteen years have passed and seven trips to Argentina have enriched my life and my artistry. The common thread in all of my trips has been my collaborations with bassist Jorge Hernaez. In 2002, we became friends, and over the years we have honed our love of instant composing into an art form. You don’t go to Argentina to get famous, you go there to rescue your soul and to rediscover your passion.”
David Haney: piano
David Bagda: guitar
Jorge Hernaez: bass
“Pianist Haney had the good sense to document a pair of encounters with sensitive, resourceful Argentine improvisers. The approach and the results are different on each of these discs, though equally satisfying. I’ve long been a fan of how elegantly Haney can invoke some of his key pianistic influences – Herbie Nichols and Monk most frequently – in even the most abstract contexts, and that kind of balance between the idiomatic and the open-ended is well on display in the duos with Hernaez, with whom Haney has developed a deep sympathy through their collaborations in recent years.” – Jason Bivins, Cadence Magazine
All tunes by David Bagda, Jorge Hernaez, David Haney, except “Twelve Bars”, Herbie Nichols
Recording and mastered by Jorge Hernaez
Tracks 1-7 recorded on November 12th 2015 at Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires International Jazz Fetival, Argentina
Tracks 8-16 recorded on November 11th and 17th 2015 at Teatro Quintanilla, Mendoza, Argentina