Clarence Penn - Dali in Cobble Hill

Styles: Post-Bop, Straight-Ahead Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:06
Size: 152,0 MB
Art: Front

(7:10)  1. The B 61
(5:34)  2. Cobble Hill
(7:49)  3. A Walk on the B-H-P
(6:12)  4. Dali
(7:02)  5. I Hear Music
(6:46)  6. Mr. C
(6:00)  7. Persistence of Memory
(7:01)  8. My Romance
(6:06)  9. Solato's Morning Blues
(6:21) 10. Zoom Zoom

Clarence Penn's 2012 album, Dali in Cobble Hill, is a rhythmically and harmonically varied date conceptualized around the fanciful notion of painter Salvador Dali taking a walk through Penn's Brooklyn neighborhood. Penn evokes the disjointed surrealism of Dali with some original compositions that include several propulsive, high-energy cuts, as well as a few more sparse, atmospheric, and stream-of-consciousness arrangements. Adding to the high level of craft exhibited on Dali in Cobble Hill is Penn's choice of sidemen here: saxophonist Chris Potter, guitarist Adam Rogers, and bassist Ben Street. The rounded tone of Rogers' amplified guitar set against Potter's bright but full-sounding tenor sax helps give the ensemble a unified sound out front, while Penn and Street fill in the layers underneath them. 

To these ends, the band flies through the frenetic Afro-Cuban/drum'n'bass-inflected "The B 6 1 "; floats together through the languid atmosphere of "A Walk on the B-H-P," and spars jauntily over the midtempo swing of "Solato's Morning Blues." Penn is one of the most accomplished and in-demand sideman of his generation, and it’s always a joy to hear him leading his own ensemble. These are adroit, fluid, and virtuosic post-bop tracks that should appeal to fans of the cerebral, adventurous jazz that just skirts the avant-garde while remaining firmly grounded in the straight-ahead jazz tradition.~Matt Collar http://www.allmusic.com/album/dali-in-cobble-hill-mw0002409319

Personnel: Clarence Penn (drums, percussion); Adam Rogers (guitar); Chris Potter (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone).

Dali in Cobble Hill

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