Dan Nimmer - Kelly Blue: Tribute To Wynton Kelly

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:39
Size: 132,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:29)  1. No Blues
(5:43)  2. Brimsha Man
(3:57)  3. On A Clear Day
(2:46)  4. Quick Jump
(5:09)  5. Close Your Eyes
(5:16)  6. Eleanor
(5:09)  7. Kelly Blue
(5:56)  8. On The Trail
(6:04)  9. If You Could See Me Now
(5:21) 10. Autumn Leaves
(6:49) 11. Temperance

In 2004, Wynton Marsalis hired 21-year-old Dan Nim-mer for his quartet and for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. It is easy to hear what Marsalis likes about Nimmer. He has lights-out chops and is a deeply traditional player. Nimmer’s second recording as a leader, Kelly Blue, is a curious project. It is described as a Wynton Kelly tribute, but it is more like a channeling. Nimmer does a Wynton Kelly so exact it is spooky. He not only gets the elastic snap of Kelly’s swing, his harmonic ingenuity and his scurrying phrasing, he gets Kelly’s single most inimitable characteristic: his touch. Like Kelly, Nimmer can make every note pop like a champagne bubble.

Nimmer provides lush, complete, immaculate trio versions of songs Kelly usually recorded with horns (“Autumn Leaves,” “No Blues,” “On the Trail”). His portamento portrayal of “If You Could See Me Now” is even more luminous than Kelly’s and is the highlight of the album. The songs that Kelly never knew (like the ultra-funky Nimmer original “Brimsha Man”) sound like Kelly has come back to earth to play them. It’s all great fun, but the question (as it so often seems to be for musicians associated with Wynton Marsalis) is whether Nimmer’s technique and intimacy with history will eventually lead to the development of a distinctive personal voice. ~ Thomas Conrad http://jazztimes.com/articles/18897-kelly-blue-dan-nimmer-trio

Kelly Blue - Tribute To Wynton Kelly

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