Standard Plus One
They Didn't Believe
How Deep Is The Ocean
You And the Night And the Music
You Took The Words Right Out Of My Heart
Someone To Watch Over Me
Just One Of Those Things
It Might As Well Be Spring
It Should've Happened a Long Time

Paul Motian, batterie
Joe Lovano, ténor saxophone
Bill Frisell, guitare électrique
Charlie Haden, basse acoustique
Lee Konitz, saxophone soprano, saxophone alto

TimeOut magazine has chosen Paul Motian as "The Essential New York Jazz Icon" : "If you were surveying the NYC jazz scene in the late '50s, you might have pegged Paul Motian merely as a masterful accompanist, citing his role in pianist Bill Evans's celebrated trio. Five decades on, though, the drummer seems more rightly classified as a shaman. The bands he leads brush up against familiar jazz stylings, but always radiate a palpable sense of mystery and creeping abstraction. (He loves bringing along virtuoso sidemen, young and old, to revel in the weirdness.)" This album presents reinterpretations of famous jazz standards featuring artists like Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Charlie Haden and his daughter Petra Haden on vocals : Motian creates an audio film about scenes in New York City for closed eyes.