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| Toys |
| Urí Caine |
első megjelenés éve: 1995
70 perc |
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| (2005)
[ DIGIPACK ]
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CD |
| 4.737 Ft
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| 1. | Time Will Tell
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| 2. | The Prisoner
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| 3. | Herbal Blue
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| 4. | Or Truth?
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| 5. | Yellow Stars In Heaven
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| 6. | Over & Out
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| 7. | Dolphin Dance
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| 8. | Toys
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| 9. | Cantaloupe Island (Hancock/Simpson/Wilkinson/Kelly)
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| 10. | Woodpecker
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| 11. | I'm meshugah for my sugah [and my sugah's meshugah for me]
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Jazz
Avant-Garde Jazz
Post-Bop
Recorded: Feb-Mar 1995
Uri Caine: piano
Don Byron: bass clarinet
Gary Thomas: flute & tenor saxophone
Dave Douglas: trumpet
Joshua Roseman: trombone
Dave Holland: bass
Ralph Peterson: drums
Don Alias: percussion
At the early age of seven Uri Caine started playing classical piano, not being interested in any kind of jazz. Nowadays he is one of the most wanted pianists in the world of jazz, slipping easily from modern jazz to traditional jazz to new music.
His basic change was mainly caused by the music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane that he heard at the age of thirteen. All of a sudden he fell in love with jazz. From then on he would rather spend his time in the local Philadelphia jazz clubs to listen to and jam with such musicians as Philly Joe Jones, Hank Mobley, Mickey Roker, Grover Washington and all the other cats instead of staying at home and doing his work for school. This was when Caine's musical career started. After High School he expanded his theoretical background at the University of Pennsylvania in his hometown Philadelphia, gaining many awards for composing. However, Caine traced his main wish: making music. He finally played in the bands of Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Donald Byrd, Lester Bowie, Phil Woods, Max Roach, Rashid Ali and Gary Thomas, to name a few. During that time he had valuable experiences that later contributed to his immense versatility.
Caine knew he had to move to New York, looking for musicians who were well-known for their own kind of obstinacy. So he did - and met with such personages like Anthony Cox, Bob Moses, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Tom Harrell, Don Byron, Ralph Peterson, Kevin Bruce Harris, Buddy DeFranco, Tery Gibbs ...
Uri Caine could succeed in getting some of these outstanding musicians for his 1993 debut album. Dedicated to one of the most important pianists in jazz, Thelonious 'Sphere' Monk, the CD was called "Sphere Music" (JMT 919 064-2) and showed a new and individual way of associating with jazz tradition. "Unrestricted listening recommendation" (JazzLive).
Caine's second album as a leader is another dedication to one of the greatest jazz pianists of our times: Herbie Hancock (whose composition Toys symbolizes the model for the title of the album).
Once again Uri Caine was able to recruit a cast of well-known musicians of worldwide repute such as Dave Holland (double bass) and Ralph Peterson (drums) for this recording, adding from time to time Gary Thomas on tenor saxophone and flute, Dave Douglas on trumpet, Joshua Roseman on trombone, Don Alias on percussion and last but not least Don Byron on bass clarinet, whom he worked with before on different projects (e.g. Don Byron plays the music of Mickey Katz).
The cover versions of "The Prisoner" and "Toys" strictly follow the original arrangements of Herbie Hancock to emphasize not the new interpretation of the theme but the late evolution of soloing. On "Dolphin Dance", a duo between Uri Caine on piano and Dave Holland on double bass, the theme is only to be heard fragmentarily. On the duo with Don Byron Hancock's classical piece "Cantaloupe Island" (well known again through the Hip Hop version of US 3) finally mutates into a swinging mutual game between bass clarinet and piano.
The musicians on Toys show a deep respect to the original cast of Hancock's recordings: with a few little imitations to the playing of former Hancock musicians (Ralph Peterson shows some licks by Tony Williams, Dave Douglas phrases little parts of his solo in the way Freddie Hubbard used to do) the band gives credit to the former times without loosening their own individuality.
Besides his habitual innovative, powerful and light-fingered piano playing Uri Caine also proves his compositional knowledge on Toys:
His own works reflect his experiences in music and life. There are confessions to Caine's jewish descent like Yellow Stars In Heaven, a spherical and kind-of-free song and I'm Meshugah For My Sugah (And My Sugah's Meshugah For Me), written for his wife Jan Galperin. There are latin american grooves as in the tune Over + Out with it's complex rhythmical and harmonical structure or in the energetic Time Will Tell. On the other hand there exist ballads such as the one dedicated to Herbie Hancock Herbal Blue and impetuous uptempo neo hardboppers like Woodpecker and Or Truth?.
Uri Caine's arrangements are as different as the extractions of his tunes are various: from intimate duo to the classical jazz piano trio to the powerful sextet.
"I did not want to move in just one direction, to become kind of stubborn", Uri Caine says, and this suspension is to be heard on his new album.
Toys is an acoustic masterpiece of the new jazz generation - innovative, breathtaking, diverse
--- Original Press Text from 1995 |
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