Mahler/Caine Urlicht/Primal Light (1997)

De Amerikaanse pianist en componist Uri Caine (1956) staat bekend om zijn eigenzinnige en inventieve interpretaties van klassieke werken. Zijn aan Gustav Mahler gewijde jazzalbum uit 1997 ontving een prijs van de German Mahler Society, waarbij overigens sommige juryleden woedend waren over Caines uitvoeringen en arrangementen. "Mahler's encyclopedic knowledge of the music of his time (including the classical repertoire as well as folk music and other "low" forms), his sense of ambiguity and irony, and his dark sense of humor provide fertile soil for Caine's postmodernist sensibility. Caine uses various combinations of just 14 musicians -- including long-time collaborators trumpeter Dave Douglas, clarinettist Don Byron, trombonist Josh Roseman, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Joey Baron, as well as DJ Olive and guest singers Arto Lindsay and Jewish cantor Aaron Bensoussan -- for this suite, which began life as the soundtrack to a silent-film biography of Mahler". (weeklywire.com).