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Jef Neve: Nobody Is Illegal

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Label: EmArcy Records
Released: 2006.11.07
Time:
 53:26
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Jef Neve
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jefneve.com
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Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Airplane (Jef Neve) - 2:15
[2] Nothing But a Casablanca Turtle Slideshow Dinner (Jef Neve) - 8:57
[3] Abschied (Jef Neve) - 6:24
[4] Astra (Piet Verbist / Teun Verbruggen) - 3:40
[5] Nobody Is Illegal (Jef Neve) - 6:25
[6] Unprepared (Piet Verbist / Teun Verbruggen) - 1:04
[7] Second Love (Jef Neve) - 9:33
[8] Goldfish (Piet Verbist / Teun Verbruggen) - 2:07
[9] Together at Last (Jef Neve) - 6:48
[10] Until Now (Jef Neve) - 4:20
[11] Delayed (Piet Verbist / Teun Verbruggen) - 1:53

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Jef Neve - Piano, Producer
Piet Verbist - Double Bass
Teun Verbruggen - Drums

Berlinde Deman - Tuba on [2,3,7]
Hans Verhulst - Horn on [2,3,7]
Simon Haspeslag - Horn on [2,3,7]
Nicolas Kummert - Tenor Saxophone on [4,6,8]
Pieter Kindt - Bass Trombone on [2,3 7]
Frederik Heirman - Tenor Trombone on [2,3,7]

Gjoerie Spies - Engineer & Mixing on [5,10]
Jan Verschoren - Engineer on [1-4,6-9,11]
Raf Roesems - Mixing on [1-4,6-9,11], Mastering
Jos L. Knaepen - Photography

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2006 CD Universal Music Belgium 170 896-3

Tracks [1-4,6-9,11]: Recorded at 'La Chapelle', Waimes, on April 17-19, 2006.
Tracks [5,10]: Recorded at Bijloke, Ghent, on July 18th, 2006.
Mastered at Alamo Sound Services, Vilvoorde.



I blame punk: the prioritising of slash-and-burn energy over instrumental proficiency. As critics celebrated amateurishness as an act of uncorrupted self-expression, dissing instrumental proficiency became the fashion. But every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

It's taken a while - well, 30 years - but musical accomplishment is back on the menu and is quietly becoming an illicit pleasure enjoyed by audiences who weren't around to witness it in the first place.

Take the 29-year-old Belgian pianist Jef Neve. He studied at the Brussels conservatory to become a concert pianist, but on graduation, in 2002, decided to play his own music. He saved, begged and borrowed enough to self-produce his first CD, and sold more than 4,000 copies. Amazed, he made another and sold almost 5,000 - and this was just among the good burghers of Brussels.

His concerts are almost like a religious experience, riveting audiences by the sheer power and imagination of his playing. On his major label debut he shows you how he does it. He begins 'Nothing But a Casablanca Turtle Slideshow Dinner' with a simple Bach-like etude but ends up like a hymn to the heavens.

Neve's originals are like musical journeys; you start off here and end up half a mile away over there. His trio (comprising Piet Verbist on bass and Teun Verbruggen on drums) shape and shade the music with powerful rhythms, and on the title track frame the pianist's storytelling skill as he shifts through the changing moods of his compositions.

On 'Together at Last' he seems capable of leaping over tall buildings and rescuing small babies from in front of runaway trains. In fact, Neve makes musical accomplishment sound like an act of uncorrupted self-expression. But hey, doesn't that sound familiar?

Stuart Nicholson - 21 January 2007
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