Time: 56:56
Size: 130.4 MB
Styles: Trombone jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front
[ 9:24] 1. Today's Nights
[ 4:19] 2. 24e
[10:22] 3. Let's Play
[ 9:06] 4. Everything Happens To Me
[ 4:48] 5. Our Delight
[ 8:01] 6. To Wisdom The Prize
[ 6:38] 7. Wait
[ 4:15] 8. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life
Avi Lebo, trombone; Slide Hampton, trombone; Larry Willis, piano; Steve Novosel, bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums .
For the sonic glories of purely acoustic jazz, it's back to Mapleshade, with Shades Of Brass by the Avi Lebo Double Trombone Quintet. Lebo hails from Tel Aviv, a classically trained trombonist who, after hearing a Slide Hampton record, shifted to jazz, moved to New York, tracked down Hampton himself for lessons, and now features the master as a sideman on his own debut disc. The other sidemen aren't chopped liver, either: pianist Larry Willis, bassist Steve Novosel, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, whose sound and cadences you'll clearly recognize as the same Cobb who played on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Talk about ride cymbals: nobody rides with more grace, or sense of time and tune, than Cobb. He shuffles rhythms with supreme subtlety. On 24E, snap your fingers to the beat and listen to how many counterbeats Cobb's got going at the same time.
Percussion is something of engineer Sprey's specialty, as well. I can't think of another CD, except possibly another Mapleshade, on which so many bushels of air billow forth from a trapset. The bass (unplugged) sounds naturally woody and plucky. Willis' piano chords waft richly. And the dual trombones -- well, there they are, right in front of you. Lebo is quite a discovery. He plays with astonishing precision, hitting eighth and sixteenth notes without a smidgen of overhang, yet there's no coldness to his tone. He gets a burnished-bronze tone out of the 'bone, "like a dark, soulful French horn," just as the liner says. Hampton has a brasher sound and, when they mix it up the electricity sparkles (though, on Today's Nights, their playing is marred by saturation on the tape). Lovely stuff. ~FredKaplan
For the sonic glories of purely acoustic jazz, it's back to Mapleshade, with Shades Of Brass by the Avi Lebo Double Trombone Quintet. Lebo hails from Tel Aviv, a classically trained trombonist who, after hearing a Slide Hampton record, shifted to jazz, moved to New York, tracked down Hampton himself for lessons, and now features the master as a sideman on his own debut disc. The other sidemen aren't chopped liver, either: pianist Larry Willis, bassist Steve Novosel, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, whose sound and cadences you'll clearly recognize as the same Cobb who played on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Talk about ride cymbals: nobody rides with more grace, or sense of time and tune, than Cobb. He shuffles rhythms with supreme subtlety. On 24E, snap your fingers to the beat and listen to how many counterbeats Cobb's got going at the same time.
Percussion is something of engineer Sprey's specialty, as well. I can't think of another CD, except possibly another Mapleshade, on which so many bushels of air billow forth from a trapset. The bass (unplugged) sounds naturally woody and plucky. Willis' piano chords waft richly. And the dual trombones -- well, there they are, right in front of you. Lebo is quite a discovery. He plays with astonishing precision, hitting eighth and sixteenth notes without a smidgen of overhang, yet there's no coldness to his tone. He gets a burnished-bronze tone out of the 'bone, "like a dark, soulful French horn," just as the liner says. Hampton has a brasher sound and, when they mix it up the electricity sparkles (though, on Today's Nights, their playing is marred by saturation on the tape). Lovely stuff. ~FredKaplan
Shades Of Brass
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