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| 1. | Walk The Walk
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| 2. | Johnny Come Lately
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| 3. | Red Dirt
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| 4. | Ya-Dig
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| 5. | My Mans Gone Now
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| 6. | In Walked Bud
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| 7. | Knaptown Vibe
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| 8. | Comin' At Ya
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| 9. | Highway 70
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| 10. | Jig Saw
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Jazz
Greg Skaff - Guitar, Bruce Barth - Piano, Tony Scherr - Bass, Greg Hutchinson - Drums
As you start listening to the music on this disc a few things become immediately apparent. As the title suggests, many of the tunes and almost all of the originals are either blues or blues-derived melodies and each one is unique in form and approach. The playing, ideas and feel are elegant and funky, intense and loose, literate and down-home. The standards here are reexamined and reimagined with feeling, humor and a bebop perspective that evinces a particular interest in the use of space.
Besides swing, tunefulness and sophisticated harmonic knowledge, Greg Skaff's compositions are distinguished by their rhythmic originality; the other musicians cannot help but get caught up in it and gracious virtuosity enables them to play solos in the spirit of these originals. Blues And Other News is the work of a self-taught, blues-based and highly literate jazz guitarist who, like the music he plays and writes is truly individual.
With each year that passes there seem to be fewer younger musicians catching the public's eye and ear who have actually spent years in musical apprenticeship before striking out on their own. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Skaff picked up the guitar at age 16 and was soon playing blues, rock and soul music in a local band. After being stunned by an early George Benson LP, It's Uptown (Columbia) he began to concentrate more on jazz, listening a lot, teaching himself theory and working on his technique. He had a year and a half of college at Wichita State which included basic music studies, but his professional education began when he moved to NYC a few years later.
His employers and mentors taught him much by example. In 1981, an audition yielded a five-year stint with Stanley Turrentine. Turrentine taught him how to play a melody with conviction and how to swing with an earthy, but relaxed, feel. Stanley imprints almost everything he plays with a soulful church flavor. Playing with Gloria Lynne, the guitarist came in contact with a singer with exquisite taste in lesser-known standards. With Ruth Brown, he encountered nightly the history of rhythm and blues, great ballads and permutations of the blues, and someone who really knows how to connect with an audience. Currently Greg is a member of saxophonist Bobby Watson's group. As part of the frontline, and also part of the rhythm section, he assumes a dual role. It's a situation that requires discipline and freedom at the same time.
While he has recorded as a sideman, this is Skaff's first release as a leader. He assembled a group of talented, versatile fellow New York freelancers with whom he's worked (Scherr and Hutchinson) along with Bruce Barth, who if you don't know from his own CDs on Enja or his work with Terence Blanchard, is surely one of his generation's most exceptional pianists. |
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