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| Blues for Smoke |
| Jaki Byard |
| első megjelenés éve: 2007 |
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| (2007)
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| 3.311 Ft
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| 1. | Journey/Hollis Stomp/Milan to Lyon
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| 2. | Aluminum Baby
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| 3. | Pete and Thomas (Tribute to the Ticklers)
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| 4. | Spanish Tinge No 1
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| 5. | Flight of the Fly
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| 6. | Blues for Smoke
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| 7. | Jaki's Blues Next
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| 8. | Diane's Melody
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| 9. | One Two Five
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Jazz
Jaki Byard - Piano, Soloist
Alan Bates - Liner Notes, Producer
* Bob d'Orleans - Engineer
* Malcolm Walker - Design
* Nat Hentoff - Supervisor
Pianist Jaki Byard's first recording as a leader was not released domestically until this 1988 CD. That fact seems strange for Byard is absolutely brilliant on the solo piano set. Many of his selections (all nine tunes are his originals) look both backwards to pre-bop styles and ahead to the avant-garde including such numbers as "Pete and Thomas (Tribute to the Ticklers)," "Spanish Tinge No. 1," and "One, Two, Five." The most remarkable selection is "Jaki's Blues Next" which has Byard alternating between James P. Johnson-type stride and free form à la Cecil Taylor; at its conclusion he plays both styles at the same time. A highly recommended outing from a very underrated pianist.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Jaki Byard
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Jun 15, 1922 in Worcester, MA
Died: Feb 11, 1999 in Queens, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Progressive Big Band, Post-Bop, Early Creative, Stride, Third Stream, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz
The late Jaki Byard was, arguably, the most versatile pianist in jazz, though he also played trumpet and was an excellent tenor saxophonist. Born in 1922, he grew up during the golden era, and while younger than Duke Ellington, he embraced, as had his predecessor, all of the changes the music went through, from its origins in New Orleans through the free improvisation era. Byard would, in a single solo concert, reveal his truly awesome mastery of the aforementioned styles, as well as R&B, stride, swing, funk, blues, honky tonk, and the extreme arpeggios of Art Tatum. But Byard's style was completely his own, developed from his early days playing with Earl Bostic in the late '40s and early '50s. After leaving Bostic, he played with Herb Pomeroy and Maynard Ferguson until he won a spot in the legendary Charles Mingus band of 1962-1964 along with Eric Dolphy. He also recorded with Dolphy and Booker Ervin, as well as Charlie Mariano and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. One of his notable achievements was as the pianist in the Mingus band that tore apart concert halls all over Europe in 1964. Between 1961 and 1972, he issued a string of his own dates for Prestige (Hi-Fly, Here's Jaki, and Out Front! among them) and other labels; they embody his finest work, with a rhythm section that included Richard Davis and Alan Dawson, though he never made a bad record. Byard became an educator in the early '70s (after another collaboration with Mingus in 1970), teaching at Harvard, the Hart School of Music, and the New England Conservatory, and he recorded and performed intermittently the world over until his death from a gunshot wound in 1999.
---Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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