Erroll Garner - Verve Jazz Masters 7

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:26
Size: 164,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:33)  1. I've Got To Be A Rugcutter
(2:48)  2. Misty
(4:28)  3. A Smooth One
(5:33)  4. Love In Bloom
(3:22)  5. All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings
(6:26)  6. Don't Be That Way
(7:18)  7. 7-11 Jump
(6:12)  8. St. James Infirmary
(5:03)  9. Don't Worry Bout Me
(4:00) 10. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?
(4:33) 11. Part Time Blues
(7:24) 12. Yesterdays
(2:33) 13. Oh Lady Be Good
(5:03) 14. Fandango
(4:01) 15. I've Got The World On A String

Pittsburgh born Jazz pianist, prolific composer, concert hall artist, and recording star. Garner was one of the most well known and influential pianists in the world during his lifetime. Surrounded by a musical family, Garner was by all accounts self-taught, began playing at the age of three and was performing professionally by the age of seven. Throughout his career Garner developed a distinctive and original piano style often compared with Art Tatum, Fats Waller, as well as Claude Debussy. Garner released music on over 40 labels, received multiple Grammy nominations, and recorded one of the greatest selling jazz albums of all time, Concert By The Sea. His published catalog contains nearly 200 compositions including “Misty”, which was named #15 on ASCAP’s list of the top songs of the 20th century. He scored for ballet, film, television, and orchestra. 

One of the most televised Jazz artists of his era, Garner appeared on TV shows all over the world, including: Ed Sullivan, Dick Cavitt, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, and many others. His prolific career began on Allegheny riverboats and spanned from the clubs of 52nd street to the top concert halls of the world. Erroll Garner’s musical and cultural legacy is perhaps stronger today than at any point since his untimely passing in 1977, when Erroll lost his battle with lung cancer at the age of 55. Thanks to the renewed efforts of Octave Music the successor and namesake of the company Garner formed with his manager Martha Glaser in 1952 and it’s Erroll Garner Jazz Project, his music is once again finding fresh audiences through a series of new record releases, multimedia performances, and creative partnerships. https://www.errollgarner.com/biography

Verve Jazz Masters 7

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Jeff Cosgrove - History Gets Ahead of the Story

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:18
Size: 136,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:54)  1. O'neal's Porch
(6:14)  2. Corn Meal Dance
(6:21)  3. Gospel Flowers
(5:30)  4. Little Bird
(6:41)  5. Ghost
(5:58)  6. Moon
(4:28)  7. Things Fall Apart
(4:36)  8. Wood Flute Song
(6:07)  9. Purcell's Lament
(6:24) 10. Harlem

"Over the years, way too much improv has been flung into the realm without a clear grasp of the past. It is not that way with History Gets Ahead Of The Story, which cleverly integrates both mainstream and progressive tradition into a wonderfully refreshing world"

Drummer Jeff Cosgrove’s History Gets Ahead Of The Story is mesmerising on many levels. First of all, arguably a rarity in this day and age, the overall sound is like a warm blanket on a winter’s day and the punch and layered texture of the drums make the record sound even more inviting. Secondly, Cosgrove’s trio of saxophonist Jeff Lederer and organist John Medeski warmed to the challenge of performing the compositions of bassist William Parker and regularly hit bull’s eye. William Parker and Jeff Cosgrove have thread a similar path of improvisational music and released Alternating Current in 2014 and Near Disaster in 2019, which also included pianist Matthew Shipp. Parker’s music, modelled from minimal motives, modality and a lurid sense of tunefulness, merits plenty attention and leaves a lot of room for personal expression.

Both title and content of Things Fall Apart aptly reflect the trio’s vision. Though more precisely it should read in brackets: And We Put Them Back Together Again. Behind the surface of the piece, built from a couple of crunchy figures and scraps of melody, one intuitively senses a balanced pattern of harmony, courtesy of the trio’s responsive interplay and cogent individual statements. Gospel Flowers, a balancing act of semi-waltz and drone, is as winsome as Things Fall Apart. Corn Meal Dance’s sensuality and staccato violence tightens the cords between Cannonball Adderley’s Country Preacher and Pharaoh Sanders’s Karma. O’Neal’s Porch and Harlem employ a blues-based gait as the starting and breaking point for relentless free expression.

Expressionism finds its climax in the stately song Purcell’s Lament. Lederer is a wildly imaginative player of tenor and soprano sax and flute, ecstatic and full of warmth, a mix that is supported by far-reaching technical command of his instruments. Medeski fits right in, fiery and revelling in an effective display of different Hammond organ sounds. The pulse and melodic finesse of Cosgrove firmly directs proceedings. 

Over the years, way too much improv has been flung into the realm without a clear grasp of the past. It is not that way with History Gets Ahead Of The Story, which cleverly integrates both mainstream and progressive tradition into the wonderfully refreshing world that it is unto itself. https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2020/06/29/jeff-cosgrove-history-gets-ahead-of-the-story/

Personnel: Drums – Jeff Cosgrove; Organ – John Medeski; Saxophone, Flute – Jeff Lederer

History Gets Ahead of the Story

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