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| 1. | About Time
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| 2. | Sleeping Child
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| 3. | Love Found Me
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| 4. | Makin' Whoopee
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| 5. | Dance of the Night Child
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| 6. | Au Privave
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| 7. | Prayer for Sean
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| 8. | Steven's Song
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| 9. | All the Things You Are [*]
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Jazz / Bop
Chicago pianist Don Bennett's time has been a long time coming. This Sextet album and the subsequent Trio set (Solar, Candid CCD 79723) are proof that it has definitely arrived. Now the truth can be widely heard - and savoured with proper exultation, for Bennett's music is jumping and joyous. Don is especially proud that this album features the outstanding alto and soprano styling of Art Porter - a truly remarkable musician along with the powerful hard blowing tenor of Ed Peterson. Compulsive listening, brimming with vitality and framed by a wholly individual perspective.
Simply put, this is a great session. Pianist Don Bennett, a veteran pianist (48 at the time) with an advanced bop-based style, is heard leading a top-notch crew of talented Chicago players. This session, which (other than the lengthy "All the Things You Are") originally came out on Southport, will be a bit of a revelation for not only does it show the somewhat obscure Bennett to be a major stylist but it features Art Porter (best-known for his crossover efforts for Verve Forecast) as a high-powered bop soloist; why doesn't he record an album of his own on this level? Another star is the frequently exciting tenor man Ed Peterson (heard here before he recorded for Delmark) and the alternating trumpeters (Art Hoyle and Steve Smyth) also fare well. Don Bennett not only provided five originals (including "About Time" which sounds like a Blue Note standard from the early '60s) but arranged sections that give this CD a coherent unity. Considering the consistently strong and enthusiastic solos and the freshness of the music, straightahead jazz collectors can consider this release to be essential.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Don Bennett
Active Decade: '90s
Born: Aug 14, 1941
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop
An underground legend in Chicago, Don Bennett has never gotten the recognition he deserves as a pianist and a talent scout. He started piano lessons when he was four and was part of the Chicago jazz scene by the late '50s, inspired by Ahmad Jamal, whom he used to see on a nightly basis. In the 1960s, Bennett moved to Los Angeles, studied with Phineas Newborn, and worked on the local scene with Harold Land, Carmell Jones and Curtis Amy, among others. He cut an album with Amy in the late '60s and led a trio date after returning to Chicago, but neither have ever been released. In 1978, he quit music altogether, working at a variety of day jobs (including as a private investigator) for ten years. In 1988, Bennett returned to jazz with his talents unimpaired. He spent time living in New York and then moved to Holland in 1993. Bennett cut a CD in Chicago in 1990 for the Southport label, which was later reissued by Candid. In addition to such fine players as trumpeter Arthur Hoyle and tenor saxophonist Ed Peterson, Bennett featured the young unknown Art Porter (on alto and soprano) on the bop-oriented material, which included five of the leader's originals.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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