Sunday, September 6, 2020

Booker Ervin - Heavy!!!

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1966
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:20
Size: 106,3 MB
Art: Front

( 8:16)  1. Bachafillen
( 8:43)  2. You Don't Know What Love Is
( 5:00)  3. Aluminum Baby
( 7:54)  4. Not Quite That
(12:28)  5. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
( 3:57)  6. Ode to Charlie Parker

This 1998 CD reissue differs from the original LP in that the immediately distinctive tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin is featured on a previously unreleased four-minute dirge, "Ode to Charlie Parker." The set matches Ervin with a remarkable rhythm section (pianist Jaki Byard, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Alan Dawson), plus trumpeter Jimmy Owens and trombonist Garnett Brown (who sometimes takes co-honors). The music is quite moody, soulful, and explorative yet not forbidding. Although the originals are fine (particularly Brown's "Bächafillen"), the main highlights are an inventive reworking of "Bei Mir Bist du Schön" and Ervin's quartet feature on an emotional rendition of "You Don't Know What Love Is."~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/heavy%21-mw0000599980

Personnel: Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone; Jimmy Owens - trumpet (3,4,5,6), flugelhorn (1); Garnett Brown - trombone (1,3,4,5,6); Jaki Byard - piano; Richard Davis - bass; Alan Dawson - drums

Heavy!!!

David Gilmore - From Here to Here

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:02
Size: 152,0 MB
Art: Front

( 6:36)  1. Focus Pocus
( 5:24)  2. Cyclic Episode
( 5:04)  3. Metaverse
( 7:20)  4. Child of Time
( 7:50)  5. When and Then
( 4:26)  6. Innerlude
( 4:48)  7. Interplay
( 7:20)  8. The Long Game
(10:07)  9. Free Radicals
( 7:01) 10. Libation

On his second Criss Cross record, From Here To Here, guitar master David Gilmore picks up where he left off on his well-received 2017 label debut, Transitions (Criss 1393). Here, joined by a quartet of New York all-stars comprising pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Brad Jones, and drummer E.J. Strickland, Gilmore navigates 8 recently-penned originals as well as Sam Rivers' Cyclic Episodes and the Bill Evans-Jim Hall classic Interplay. Throughout the proceedings, Gilmore unfailingly displays virtuosic technical and conceptual chops, exhaustive harmonic knowledge, melodic gifts, luminous sound, and sense of focus and proportion. These qualities made him an indispensable sideman several decades ago during long-term engagements with Steve Coleman and Wayne Shorter -- they've only developed and evolved over time.~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Here-DAVID-GILMORE/dp/B07W47GFQL

Personnel: Guitar – David Gilmore;  Bass – Brad Jones; Drums – E.J. Strickland; Piano – Luis Perdomo

From Here to Here