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| 1. | Chantal's Way
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| 2. | Blue Cave
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| 3. | Stella by Starlight
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| 4. | Kilauea
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| 5. | All the Things You Are
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| 6. | Distant Voices
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| 7. | Elm
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| 8. | You Don't Know What Love Is
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| 9. | Expression
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Jazz / Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Post-Bop
Steve Smith (acoustic bass)
Richie Beirach (piano)
Jabali Billy Hart (drums)
Includes liner notes by Josef Woodard.
with pianist Richie Beirach & drummer Billy Hart, bassist Steve Smith's debut recording features reharmonized standards & several modern jazz compositions by the Richie Beirach, Steve Smith & John Coltrane
Bassist Smith (not the drummer of the same name) presents a straight piano-bass-drums jazz trio, but the music is far from straight-ahead, though it is within the modern mainstream. Pianist Richie Beirach adds both new dimensions and his personal harmonic mysterioso embellishments to four of Smith's originals, three standards, and two zingers. Drummer Billy Hart sounds more inspired here than on any previous recordings. His punctuations and shadings are fresh as ever, working extraordinarily well with Smith, whose deliberate, patient, unspectacular bottom tones provide the coal for Beirach's sulfur and Hart's diamonds. The result is a gunpowder fuse to blast open your ears. The most remarkable selections of the nine are three standards revamped by Beirach, for the most part. His abstracted "Stella by Starlight," loaded with chord substitutions, cannot be explained. A willowy, dark bossa with repetitive piano chords changes up "All the Things You Are," and a heavier ten-fingered Beirach complements and overpowers the standard melody of "You Don't Know What Love Is." Smith's compositions include the title track, a light samba made heavier by deep piano and active drums; "Blue Cave" as a brooding, understated slow waltz with Beirach's signature explorations; a rubato to lugubrious "Kilauea"; and the delicately bouncing, quick, and bright waltz "Distant Voices" (with a large drum solo from the witty Hart). Also included is Beirach's famous and floating "Elm," sporting suspended animation in the ECM fashion that beguiles Smith. The closer, John Coltrane's "Expression," is also done freely and lovingly in no time. This is not your father's Waller-Tatum-Hines jazz trio, unless he's into Bill Evans, Mal Waldron, or Paul Bley. Smith, who loves the music of Scott LaFaro and that kind of postmodern bassist, has made quite a statement with this extraordinarily consistent and inspired performance. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Steve Smith
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Aug 21, 1954 in Brockton, MA
Genre: Jazz
In addition to serving as the drummer of one of the all-time definitive arena rock acts, Journey (during their most successful period from the late '70s through the early '80s), Steve Smith has also played with a wide range of other artists. Born on August 21, 1954 in Brockton, MA, Smith began drumming at the age of nine, when he took lessons from respected big-band drummer and instructor Bill Flanagan. Subsequently, Smith played a variety of musical styles (swing, R&B, hard rock, fusion, big band, etc.), and enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. In October of 1976, Smith signed on with jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, touring as a member of his band, and appearing on the album Enigmatic Ocean (1977). After briefly serving as the drummer for Ronnie Montrose's band in 1978, Smith was invited to join Journey, who were in the midst of a musical switch -- from fusion to arena rock. The group couldn't have picked a better-suited (and versatile) drummer than Smith, as he manned the kit on such mega-hit albums as Evolution (1979), Departure (1980), Escape (1981), and Frontiers (1983), during which time Journey became one of the U.S.' most successful rock bands.
But at the peak of Journey's success, Smith was fired by singer Steve Perry (who supposedly wanted to go in a more "soulful" direction). Undeterred, Smith shifted his attention to the more musically challenging and varied outfit Vital Information, which he had founded in 1983 while still a member of Journey. Vital Information issued albums on a regular basis throughout the '80s (including such standout titles as Global Beat and Live Around the World: Where We Come from Tour 1998-1999, among others). He also joined the all-star jazzrock outfit Steps Ahead in 1986 and stayed with them until 1993. Smith joined a reunited Journey (who had been on hiatus since 1987) during the late '90s, resulting in a brand new studio album, Trial by Fire (1996), and a proposed world tour. But on the eve of the tour, Perry discovered that he had a degenerative hip condition, and the tour was ultimately scrapped entirely. In addition to his recording with Journey and Vital Information, Smith has either recorded or toured with Steps Ahead, Randy Brecker, Allan Holdsworth, Frank Gambale, Stanley Clarke, Mariah Carey, Ahmad Jamal, Stuart Hamm, Tony MacAlpine, Dweezil Zappa, Y&T, and many others. Smith also enjoys helping other drummers, as he has given clinics all over the world throughout the years (even issuing an instructional video in 1987), and was voted "Number One All-Around Dummer" in Modern Drummer Magazine's reader's poll from 1987 though 1991. In 2001, Modern Drummer again voted for Smith, but this time he was among one of the Top 25 Drummers of All Time; the next year the magazine voted Smith into their Hall of Fame.
Among Vital Information's most notable albums of the '90s and 2000s are Vitalive! (1991), Easier Done Than Said (1992), Ray of Hope (1996), Show 'Em Where You Live (2002), and Come on In (2004).
---Greg Prato, All Music Guide |
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