Time: 79:16
Size: 181.5 MB
Styles: Trombone jazz
Year: 2001
Art: Front
[4:54] 1. Out Of Nowhere
[4:26] 2. Darn That Dream
[7:18] 3. Introduction & First Movement
[3:53] 4. Second Movement
[4:57] 5. Third Movement
[5:18] 6. Fourth Movement
[5:49] 7. Mellowdrama
[6:15] 8. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
[4:52] 9. Air Conditioned
[3:23] 10. This Can't Be Love
[4:35] 11. Exactly Like You
[4:40] 12. The Things I Love
[3:30] 13. Only When You Are Near
[4:33] 14. Green Stamps
[3:17] 15. You're My Everything
[7:26] 16. Co-Operation
Nick Travis, Thad Jones (tp), Bob Brookmeyer (vtb, p, arr), Curtis Fuller (tb), Danny Bank (fl, bcl, bs), Al Cohn (ts), Gene Quill (as, cl), Hank Jones, Wynton Kelly (p), George Duvivier, Paul Chambers (b), Charlie Persip, Paul Motian (d).
Twofer: Tracks #1-8 from "Portrait Of The Artist" (Atlantic LP 1320). Tracks #9-16 from "Jazz Is A Kick" (Mercury MG 206000).
The portrait that emerges from this disc reveals a trombonist with excellent technique, a smooth, pungent percussive wit, dark and buttery tone, down home stomping and slyly musical humor; a pianist who ranges from a basic, solid, four-square attack to a delightfully airy way; a composer who is strongly conscious of the foundations of jazz; and an arranger who mainly writes with a heavy emphasis on a rolling swing, and occasionally blending it with impressionistic devices, but always with strength and simplicity.
In a revealing insight, Nat Hentoff considered that “Brookmeyer has opened himself to jazz of all eras. He has absorbed, tested, and selected from the whole reservoir of autobiographies in sound that is the jazz language, those elements he felt relevant to his own experience in living and telling his history of jazz. He has not limited himself to any one era, school or attitude, preferring to filter all of jazz through his emotions rather than remain a parochial hipster.”
Twofer: Tracks #1-8 from "Portrait Of The Artist" (Atlantic LP 1320). Tracks #9-16 from "Jazz Is A Kick" (Mercury MG 206000).
The portrait that emerges from this disc reveals a trombonist with excellent technique, a smooth, pungent percussive wit, dark and buttery tone, down home stomping and slyly musical humor; a pianist who ranges from a basic, solid, four-square attack to a delightfully airy way; a composer who is strongly conscious of the foundations of jazz; and an arranger who mainly writes with a heavy emphasis on a rolling swing, and occasionally blending it with impressionistic devices, but always with strength and simplicity.
In a revealing insight, Nat Hentoff considered that “Brookmeyer has opened himself to jazz of all eras. He has absorbed, tested, and selected from the whole reservoir of autobiographies in sound that is the jazz language, those elements he felt relevant to his own experience in living and telling his history of jazz. He has not limited himself to any one era, school or attitude, preferring to filter all of jazz through his emotions rather than remain a parochial hipster.”
Portrait Of The Artist
The first album (Tracks 1 to 8) is pretentious. The other cuts are nice jazz.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mat. Nice post.
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