Gary Smulyan - Our Contrafacts

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:21
Size: 153,5 MB
Art: Front

(8:39)  1. Quarter Blues
(6:10)  2. Drink Up
(7:41)  3. Homebody
(5:43)  4. It Happens
(7:30)  5. Miles Tones
(8:11)  6. Good Riddance
(4:55)  7. How Deep
(6:46)  8. Tritonious Monk
(4:20)  9. What's Her Name
(6:21) 10. Sourpuss

A contrafact, a longtime jazz convention, is an original melody superimposed over the chord progression of a preëxisting song. If, in the course of listening to “It Happens,” from the baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan’s intriguing album “Our Contrafacts,” you find yourself humming Michel Legrand’s “Watch What Happens,” well, you’ve got the idea. Smulyan, a mainstream master of the big horn, has devoted previous albums to contrafacts composed by others; here, he and his sterling associates, David Wong on bass and Rodney Green on drums, contribute their own clever adaptations, which provide fertile terrain for improvisation invention upon reinvention, as it were. ~ Steve Futterman https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/gary-smulyan-our-contrafacts

Personnel: Baritone Saxophone – Gary Smulyan; Bass – David Wong; Drums – Rodney Green

Our Contrafacts

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