Lafayette Gilchrist - 3

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:11
Size: 124,3 MB
Art: Front

( 9:24)  1. Visitors
( 5:32)  2. In Depth
( 7:15)  3. Spheres of Existance
( 8:40)  4. The Last Train
( 7:20)  5. Volcano Red
( 5:41)  6. The Enquizator's request
(10:16)  7. Inside Outside

3 is Gilchrist's third album and his first trio release. He composed, arranged and throws every throbbing note down in the company of his Baltimore homeboys "Blue" Jenkins on bass and Nate Reynolds on drums. "The sound I was hearing in my head is coming from when I first heard Money Jungle," Gilchrist explains. "It's a trio record with Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. To me, it sounds like an orchestra being played by a trio. I was inspired to make something that sounded big and grandiose just like that."  Mission accomplished: Gilchrist and crew, especially drummer Reynolds, who once pounded beats for soul legend "Wicked" Wilson Pickett, rock this music hard. Jenkins and Reynolds often play so strong and fast in counterpoint to Gilchrist's forceful attack that their rhythms become runaway locomotives and it's often a marvel that the pianist can keep pace. Amazingly, Gilchrist does, and resurrects process structuralist ghosts like Art Tatum and Cecil Taylor (in "Volcano Red") and even Thelonious Monk ("The Equizinator's Request"). Gilchrist cryptically yet insightfully annotates each song title, so his description of "In Depth" can be read as "The pride of James Brown and the depth of inquiry of Andrew Hill," and of "Volcano Red" as "It's the way I like my band to play, like a pot boiling over." Gilchrist's rhythm section adds so much power and counterpoint to his playing that 3 often sounds like no other piano trio record. In the spry "Inside Outside," Gilchrist seems barely tethered to the rhythm section, and he gnaws on the introductory flurries of "Visitors" like a starving dog until the rhythm pumps up in volume and tempo, whipping his hands faster and faster. "The Equizinator's Request" majestically rocks and just keeps rolling, careening and plummeting as if trapped in rapids, full of an exciting sense of the unexpected, and of rollicking and funky fun. ~ Chris M.Slawecki https://www.allaboutjazz.com/3-lafayette-gilchrist-hyena-records-review-by-chris-m-slawecki.php

Personnel: Lafayette Gilchrist: piano; Anthony "Blue" Jenkins: bass; Nate Reynolds: drums.

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David Murray Black Saint Quartet - Live in Berlin

Styles: Saxophone And Clarinet Jaz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:Size: 163,9 MB
Art: Front

(14:57)  1. Dirty Laundry
( 6:10)  2. Banished
(17:21)  3. Sacred Ground

(15:52)  4. Murray’s Steps

(17:11)  5. Waltz Agai


This new recording features the Black Saint Quartet in Murray's current dream line-up: Murray (born1955), bassist Jaribu Shahid and drummer Hamid Drake (who both belong to his own generation), and pianist Lafayette Gilchrist (13 years younger). Gilchrist replaced Murray's long-time friend John Hicks. When Hicks died in 2006, he left a book with several hundred pages of sheet music that rested on Gilchrist's grand piano during the concert. 'The David Murray Power Quartet Book' is written on the cover in black felt-tip pen. Hicks gave it to Gilchrist as his legacy before he died. The cooperation with Shahid and Drake documented on this CD was a whole new experience for Murray. They all know each other very well and have walked many a mile together in music. However, this is the first time that Murray is the leader of a band where he isn't a junior, let alone the youngest member. David Murray has changed, particularly from his own perspective. He goes into raptures about the chord sequences in Tranish 'Murray Steps' and 'Waltz Again', a composition dedicated to his father. Today, he is able to weave even the most unbending cries of his tenor the Murray moments of yore - smoothly into the frame of his classic quartet sound. ~ Christian Broecking  Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Live-Berlin-David-Murray/dp/B0019LL6HU

David Murray Black Saint Quartet:  David Murray (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet),  Hamid Drake (drums),  Jaribu Shahid (bass),  Lafayette Gilchrist (piano)

Live in B

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