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| 1. | Django
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| 2. | Tripping
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| 3. | Fly Me To The Moon
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| 4. | Sanibel Island
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| 5. | Skylark
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| 6. | Truce
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| 7. | Quiet Now
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| 8. | Inner Space
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Jazz / Post-Bop, Hard Bop
Joe Locke (vibes)
Tim Horner (drums)
Mark Soskin (piano)
Harvie Swartz (bass)
Josiah Gluck Engineer
Mark Gardner Liner Notes
Nils Winther Producer, Photography
While recording a series of dates for Steeplechase, vibraphonist Joe Locke was never predictable or in the least bit complacent, frequently changing personnel for each date and never falling into a rut in choosing material. His quartet on this 1995 session includes pianist Mark Soskin, bassist Harvie Swartz, and drummer Tim Horner; the music is wide-ranging, concentrating heavily on modern jazz repertoire. standards include a lovely waltzing "Fly Me to the Moon" and a slow, exquisite arrangement of "Skylark." It might seem dangerous to tackle a piece such as John Lewis' "Django" with the identical instrumentation of the best-known version recorded by the composer during his years leading Modern Jazz Quartet, but it is also the sign of a musician who is confident not only in his own abilities but those of his accompanists; although this arrangement is not drastically different from the classic 1955 recording by the MJQ, the excellent individual solos and Swartz's superb arco bass make it noteworthy in its own right. A spacious approach to Denny Zeitlin's "Quiet Now" features Locke and Soskin as a duo. Among more recent works are Swartz's "Truce," which begins with an intense bass solo before evolving into a driving post-bop chart. Frank Kimbrough's introspective "Sanibel Island" seems to inspire some of the best solos of the date. This is one of a number of highly recommended CDs recorded by Locke during the 1990s. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Joe Locke
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Mar 18, 1959
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop
Born in northern California but raised in the northeastern U.S., Joe Locke is a hard bop/post-bop vibist whose main influences include Bobby Hutcherson and Milt Jackson. Locke was a child when he moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Rochester, NY, where he started playing piano and drums at eight before taking up the vibraphone at 13. Locke, whose father taught classical music, started out playing rock but got heavily into straightahead jazz in his early teens. As a teenager, he studied privately with pianist Phil Markowitz and bassist Steve Davis. Locke was in his early 20s when he moved to New York in 1981, and two years later, he wrote the score for the independent film/documentary El Salvador -- Another Vietnam. The vibist's first several years in New York were a struggle, but as the 1980s progressed, he found himself playing or recording as a sideman for Kenny Barron, Freddy Cole, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Jerry Gonzalez and others. In the '90s, he toured Japan with Eddie Henderson and was employed on albums by Henderson, Cole, Eddie, Grover Washington, Jr., Dianne Reeves, George Cables, Barbara Dennerlein, Hiram Bullock and the Charles Mingus ghost band. Locke toured Russia four times with tenor saxophonist Igor Butman, one of the country's top jazzmen. As a leader, Locke recorded several albums for the Danish SteepleChase label before joining MilestoneFantasy's roster with 1995's Moment to Moment: The Music of Henry Mancini. His subsequent Milestone dates included 1997's Sound Tracks (which concentrated on songs from famous films) and 1998's Slander (And Other Love Songs). Beauty Burning followed in mid-2000; Storytelling appeared the following year. In 2002 Locke returned with his Storytelling band for State of Soul.
--- Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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