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If your ears are starved for innovative jazz that blends punchy sax lines and dense, wild, worldbeat-flavored bass and drum rhythms, let this newly formed trio with an amazing pedigree fill the bill. Mark Turner was a sax star in the late '90s who was looking for a new situation, which he stumbled upon while working on a Chick Corea project called Originations, which included old friends Larry Grenadier (bassist for Pat Metheny and Joshua Redman) and drummer Jeff Ballard (Corea, Redman, Danilo Perez). If the swinging bass and percussion patterns weren't so tight and Turner's sax wasn't this melodic and precise, Fly might seem like it was three pals just having fun, as the exotic opening track, "Child's Play," might indicate. Essentially, the concept seems to be the trio listening and responding to each other in a frolicsome manner. On "Fly Mr. Freakjar," Turner is more eloquent and restrained as his cohorts rumble happily around him, as if trying to get him to loosen up (he does after a few minutes). Other highlights include the funky jazz centerpiece "JJ," on which Turner wraps his sometimes honking horn around increasingly dense percussion patterns and bass swirls. The disc slows down in the middle, favoring subtlety over insanity, but is happily rescued by the energetic "Todas las Cosas Se Van" and the funky, melodic, marching drum-driven Hendrix cover "Spanish Castle Magic." Fly is definitely a cooperative by three major jazz talents, but by the end you'll remember Ballard's mostly in-your-face drum lines the most. ~ Jonathan Widran
Recorded at Sear Sound, New York, New York in June 2003.
Personnel: Jeff Ballard (drums).
Audio Mixer: James Farber.
Recording information: Sear Sound, NY (06/16/2003-06/18/2003).
Photographer: Lourdes Delgado.
Fly: Mark Turner (saxophone, bass clarinet); Larry Grenadier (bass); Jeff Ballard (drums).
CMJ (2/9/04, p.20) - "[E]ach player carves out his own path within the confines of the tunes, making the music both thoughtful and rambunctiously freewheeling...just the way jazz music is meant to be." Fly Songs | 1. | Child's Play |
| 2. | Fly Mr. Freakjar |
| 3. | Stark |
| 4. | JJ |
| 5. | State of the Union |
| 6. | Emergence/Resurgence |
| 7. | Todas las Cosas Se Van |
| 8. | Piano Tune |
| 9. | Spanish Castle Music |
| 10. | Lone |
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Purchase Fly CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Dave Holland Extended Play: Live At Birdland CDs (2003)
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EXTENDED PLAY was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
With a front line that features saxophone, trombone, and vibraphone/marimba, the Dave Holland Quintet features an immediately identifiable band sound. As for backing, bassist Holland and traps man Billy Kilson provide a push-me-pull-you, supple and responsive rhythm section that is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to accompaniment ideas.
The thing that separates the men from the boys in the world of jazz improvisation is listening--when the performers are paying close attention to one another, the creative horizons are all but limitless. It would be a slight to say this quintet is all on the same page, better to imagine they all bring their knowledge of great art and fine cuisine to bear each time they play together--it's a multi-faceted, heady brew. Holland's compositions are angular but never dissonant, polished but also earthy. The illusion is that these tunes flow effortlessly from this smart ensemble. The truth is that this is one of the best groups in early 21st-century jazz, based on a refined collective sensibility ...
| | Chris Potter Lift: Live At The Village Vanguard CD (2004)
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Chris Potter's new Live at the Village Vanguard album starts jarringly enough. There is a particular knotty, unaccompanied solo saxophone intro to drummer Bill Stewart's "7.5" played via tape delay by Potter on seemingly three saxophones. He is joined by a series of freaky tones on Kevin Hays' Fender Rhodes playing what sounds like the keys on a telephone keypad to truly disorienting effect. Soon enough, however, the ensemble kicks in to fill out the rhythm, Hays switches to piano, and Potter brings the tune's melodic body into focus, swinging half-in-half-out, tightrope walking around a series of scalar figures that translate it into a wonderfully energetic ride. And this is merely the statement of purpose for the entire gig. On the original material, Potter's now truly unique voice on the tenor may have been influenced in equal parts by Dewey Redman, John Coltrane, and even Sonny Rollins, but his manner of phrasing and his distinct tone make him an original on the horn. Potter is a harmonic whiz kid. On "What You Wish," he and the quartet -- which also includes the amazing Scott Colley on bass -- move through augmented phases and interludes, evolving a melody into a modal concern in the breaks, and turning it out multidimensionally. Hays piano solo moves from modal groove exploration to Latin vamps to Bill Evans-styled harmonic extrapolation. Potter enunciates the Latin tinge, and takes it all the way over into streamlined post-bop with beautiful choruses. But then, as if the entire gig was going to lift right off, Potter slows it down beautifully, once again using his delay to introduce ...
| | Dave Holland Overtime CD (2005)
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This exceptional date by Dave Holland Big Band was recorded in 2002 in New York, yet remained unreleased until 2005. As is to be expected, Holland assembled a fine cast of seasoned and young players, some of whom are veterans of Holland's quintets and quartets. These are four saxophones -- two alto, tenor and baritone -- three trumpets and trombones, and vibes as well as bass and drums. They include Chris Potter and Robin and Duane Eubanks, Antonio Hart, Steve Nelson, Josh Roseman, Billy Kilson, Taylor Haskins, Gary Smulyan, Jonathan Arons and Alex Sipiagin. The music centers around the opening four-part "Monterey Suite," a tour de force commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival and originally performed there in 2001. Holland's writing for the trombone section is dynamite. Roseman, Arons, and Robin Eubanks offer up solid bottom rung lines and tight timing as anchors for the rest of the brass though they often charge out front. Potter once more displays his talents as not only a fine soloist but as an excellent ensemble player, carrying the chair with authority and verve. The beautiful "Ario" hosts some really knotty and swelling harmonic interludes and the closer, "Last Minute Man," is electrifying, transcending the ...
| | Ted Nash La Espada De La Noche CD (2005)
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Ted Nash's quintet has a slightly different instrumentation than the usual jazz group: the leader's got reeds, violin, tuba, accordion and drums! Nash switches between tenor, alto, clarinet, bass clarinet and alto flute while Clark Gayton triples on tuba, trombone and baritone horn. Joined by violinist Nathalie Bonin (who has a beautiful "legit" tone), Bill Schimmel on accordion and drummer Matt Wilson, the group performs unique renditions of Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia," "Tico Tico" and two movements from Concierto de Aranjuez plus three of the leader's originals. The unpredictable music they create, which is influenced by the cultures of Latin America, South America and Eastern Europe, is full of logical development, rich melodies and unusual tone colors. Each of the musicians is a virtuoso and the colorful arrangements utilize their instruments in unexpected ways, with ...
| | Andrew Hill Time Lines CD (2006)
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While recording for Blue Note in the 1960s, composer and pianist Andrew Hill released some of the most forward-thinking and meticulously constructed albums of the post-bop era. The intelligence and daring that characterized those albums still inhabits Hill's recordings, as 2006's TIME LINES attests.
Flanked by a fine quartet (a bassist, drummer, trumpeter, and the multi-talented Greg Tardy on tenor sax, clarinet, and bass clarinet), Hill still reels off witty, elliptical piano lines that bring together modal ...
| | Dave Holland Pass It On CD (2008)
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Using a sextet, upright bassist Holland sets the bar even higher than on his previous efforts, adding the always tasteful pianist Mulgrew Miller and a four-horn front line that is relentless. The jaunty opening number, "The Sum of All Parts," is a 5/4 African percussion-based piece led by Robin Eubanks with folded-in alto and trumpet and witty counterpoint. Adding a light samba feel during the upbeat "Fast Track" with the horns in perfect unison, the ensemble shifts up to hard bop. A 10/8 choppy and bouncy "Modern Times" also uses Brazilian inferences and sees Antonio Hart switching to soprano. On the soulful side, the title track recalls visions of Horace Silver - a groovy, fun boogaloo that has "radio hit" written all over it, while "Lazy Snake" takes the soul element deep underground and contrasts it with a suggestion of stark surrealism. Then there's the near 14-minute, free-based, diffuse "Rivers Run" (dedicated to Sam Rivers), which features the accented by the bowed bass of Holland, building ...
| | Saxon Metalhead CD (1999)
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Laudatory end of the century return to form release from these late 70s heavy metal stalwarts. German import.
Despite all naysayers, and whatever the price, new wave of British heavy metal pioneers Saxon continue to persist year after year, label after label, lineup after lineup, through think and thin. They've continued to stubbornly wave the flag of British heavy metal, overcoming bad management decisions, misguided artistic directions, and widespread neglect on American soil to forge a respectable comeback in the mid-'90s. Indeed, the return to form initiated with 1992's Forever Free is delivered in full-force by 1999's Metalhead. Led by the instantly recognizable voice of frontman Biff Byford, the newly revamped quintet (featuring new German drummer Fritz Randow) rips into action with the bombastic title track, then rolls into one of their best all-around songs of the decade, "Are We Travellers in Time." Surprisingly convincing thrash-outs ensue on "Conquistador" and "All Guns Blazing," and despite losing focus on some of the intermediate tracks, the album finishes strong with the epic metal grandeur of "Sea of Life." Sadly, no matter how impressive their efforts, old warriors like Saxon can never ...
| | Fattburger Work To Do CD (2004)
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Nearly two decades into serving up some of the fattest, juiciest smooth jazz platters in town, Fattburger return with a record most definitely on par with 2003's Sizzlin'. Surrendering altogether to the world of crossover jazz, the gang reinterprets the Isley Brothers' classic "Work to Do" with great sensitivity to the original composition. From there, things turn to the comfortably ...
| | Saturday Night Live Band Gotta Keep My Eye On You CD (2005) (Import)
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| | Bud Shank Stairway To The Stars CD (2006) (Import)
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| | Emilie Simon March Of The Empress CD (2007)
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French electronica chanteuse Emilie Simon is also an accomplished sound engineer and orchestrator who came into the public eye as the musical ...
| | Chick Corea & Return To Foever Where Have I Kown You Before CD (2008) (Import) Japan
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| | Northwest University Relentless CD (2008)
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