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| Live at The Other End [ ÉLŐ ] |
| Jimmy Ponder |
| első megjelenés éve: 2007 |
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| (2007)
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| 3.981 Ft
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| 1. | The Work Song
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| 2. | Jitterbug Waltz
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| 3. | Freedom Jazz Dance
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| 4. | Con Alma
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| 5. | Milestones
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| 6. | Stella by Starlight
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| 7. | All the Things You Are
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Jazz
Recorded: The Other End, New York, 1982
Jimmy Ponder - guitar
Soul-jazz guitar master Jimmy Ponder grooves and glides on this beautiful, previously unreleased live recording from the legendary Greenwich Village nightclub. A key element in the classic recordings of Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy McGriff and many others, Ponder’s astounding technique and laid-back, funky sound come to the fore on this rare solo recording. With his super-tasty licks and unique arrangements of well-known tunes, Ponder’s Live at The Other End is sure to delight the most discriminating guitar aficionado.
"An unexpected gem of acid-jazz demigod Ponder playing a solo guitar set in 1982 in a Greenwich Village coffee house, complete with PA announcements, audience noise, occasional distortion, and everything that goes to make up a living, breathing portrait of a long-ago live gig."
---Alyn Shipton: Record Collector - September 2007 ***
Let's face it, solo jazz guitar records -- by most guitar masters anyway -- would become rather ho hum unless of course you are a student of the instrument or a die-hard fanatic. There are exceptions: Jim Hall, Bola Sete, Tal Farlow, as well as others purposely omitted for brevity here. Live at the Other End by Jimmy Ponder is not only engaging for its entire 55 minutes' running time, it's downright dazzling, and not only in technical acumen -- which it certainly is -- but in its pure singing musicality. Given that the Other End -- formerly the legendary Bitter End -- was, in 1982, a pop-oriented room, a solo gig by a jazz guitarist was risky for the club to be sure, but more so for the guitarist. While acid jazz fans dig deep into Ponder's sides with Lou Donaldson and the late Charles Earland, as well as his High Note solo date, Alone, it is this set that best defines the guitarist -- preceding the High Note session by eight years -- and brings into the open his considerable gifts. This is a burner of a show. Whether he's digging into the Cannonball Adderley classic "Work Song," in which he -- sans pick like his man Wes Montgomery -- wrings every ounce of funky blues-shouting feeling, or transforms a ballad standard such as "Stella by Starlight" with killer middle-register runs, angular bass notes, and dazzling scalar runs, or turns "All the Things You Are" into a soulful history lesson in the jazz masters of the past as read through the wily soul-jazz era, or funks the joint out with an eight-minute bass note-heavy "Freedom Jazz Dance" by Eddie Harris, it's all jaw-droppingly awesome. If anything, this set, recorded by the great Mark Hood and mastered impeccably by Yoichi Namekata, is perhaps the defining moment for Ponder as one of jazz's underappreciated greats (it's curious that it took the hip-hop and acid jazz generations to cement his rep), and is one of the finest solo jazz guitar records in the canon, period. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Jimmy Ponder
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: May 10, 1946 in Pittsburgh, PA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
An excellent guitarist with a soulful sound and the ability to uplift any funky jazz date, Jimmy Ponder has appeared on many recordings during his long career, over 80 as a sideman and 15 as a leader. Ponder began playing guitar when he was 14 and considers Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell to be his two main early influences and Wes Montgomery later on. Offered a job with Charles Earland after having only played guitar three years, Ponder waited until he graduated from high school and then spent three years with the organist's group, recording several dates with Earland. He worked and recording with Lou Donaldson, Houston Person, Donald Byrd, Stanley Turrentine, and Jimmy McGriff and in the early '70s moved to New York (from Philadelphia), leading his own groups. Ponder has since recorded as a leader in the 1970s for Cadet, ABCImpulse, TK, CBS, and Toshiba, in the '80s for Milestone, and in the '90s for Muse and HighNote. In the 21st century his albums included Ain't Misbehavin' (2000), Thumbs Up (2001), Alone (2003), What's New (2005), and Somebody's Child and Solo: Live at the Other Side, both released in 2007.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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