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| And Then Again / Midnight Walk |
| Elvin Jones |
| első megjelenés éve: 2000 |
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| (2000)
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| 7.329 Ft
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| 1. | Azan
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| 2. | All Deliberate Speed
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| 3. | Elvin Elpus
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| 4. | Soon After
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| 5. | Forever Summer
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| 6. | Len Sirrah
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| 7. | And Then Again
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| 8. | Midnight Walk
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| 9. | Lycra Too?
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| 10. | Tintiyana
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| 11. | H.M. on F.M.
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| 12. | Cross-Purpose
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| 13. | All of Us
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| 14. | The Juggler
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Jazz
2 LPs on 1 CD
* AND THEN AGAIN (1965)
* MIDNIGHT WALK (1967)
AND THEN AGAIN
Elvin Jones (drums)
Melba Liston (conductor); Frank Wess (tenor saxophone, flute); Charles Davis (baritone saxophone); Thad Jones (cornet); Hunt Peters (trombone); Don Friedman, Hank Jones (piano); Paul Chambers, Art Davis (bass)
MIDNIGHT WALK
Elvin Jones (drums)
Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone); Thad Jones (trumpet); Dollar Brand (piano); Steve James (electric piano); Donald Moore (bass); George Abend (percussion)
* Leonard Feather - Original Liner Notes
* Melba Liston - Arranger, Conductor
Drummer Elvin Jones was perhaps best known for his work while affiliated with the John Coltrane Quartet. One of three musician brothers, his trumpeter brother Thad collaborates with him on this release (as does Hank Mobley on "Midnight Walk"). The two classic original Atlantic albums featured here, first released in 1965 and 1967, offer over 70 minutes worth of music.
This repackage of two of Elvin Jones' Atlantic titles from 1965 and 1967, respectively, reveals something truly unnerving about the drummer before and after his boss, John Coltrane, passed away: that Jones never stopped being a hard bop drummer. On the first date, And Then Again, Jones employs his brothers, Thad and Hank, Charles Davis, Paul Chambers, Hunt Peters, and Art Davis in a program that could have come from the early to mid '60s Blue Note catalog. Horace Silver's funkiness is wedded to knotty, swinging hard bop figures adorned in rhythm by Jones, especially on Davis's "Azan" and Melba Liston's "Len Sirrah." On the latter disc Midnight Walk, Jones hires Thad again, but also employs Dollar Brand, Hank Mobley, Don Moore, and Steve Jams on electric piano. The title track is a shifty little funk number by Arif Mardin with a punchy front line for both trumpet and tenor, accented by the bass with single note runs in the turnarounds. But the high point on the album is Dollar Brand's "Tintiyana," a drawn out modal piece with an ostinato piano section that is heavy on left hand acrobatics before moving the theme and variation into the middle register where it becomes possible for the band to enter into the tune -- almost two minutes in out of six. Once they do, the staccato South African swing that is Brand's trademark becomes the body of the tune: a gentle lyricism with polyrhythmic accents and melodic variations with Jones slipping around the kit as a contrapuntal measure to Brand's pianism. Mobley's solo is dynamite, a picture of pure economic lyricism and taste that gives way to one of Brand's wildest two-hand choral solos in recorded history, inspired by the free dance of Jones rhythmnistry. This makes the disc a real deal in that either of these dates would have been cause for purchase, but, as a two-fer, they are essential.
---Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Elvin Jones
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 09, 1927 in Pontiac, MI
Died: May 18, 2004 in Englewood, NJ
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Modal Music, Progressive Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Elvin Jones will always be best-known for his association with the classic John Coltrane Quartet (1960-65) but he also had a notable career as a bandleader and continued to be a major influence in music. One of the all-time great drummers (bridging the gap between advanced hard bop and the avant-garde), Elvin is the younger brother of a remarkable musical family that also includes Hank and Thad Jones. After spending time in the Army (1946-49), he was a part of the very fertile Detroit jazz scene of the early '50s. He moved to New York in 1955, worked with Teddy Charles and the Bud Powell Trio and recorded with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins (the latter at his famous Village Vanguard session). After stints with J.J. Johnson (1956-57), Donald Byrd (1958), Tyree Glenn and Harry "Sweets" Edison, Elvin Jones became an important member of John Coltrane's Quartet, pushing the innovative saxophonist to remarkable heights and appearing on most of his best recordings. When Coltrane added Rashied Ali to his band in late 1965 as second drummer, Jones was reportedly not pleased and he soon departed. He went on a European tour with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and then started leading his own groups which in the 1990s became known as Elvin Jones's Jazz Machine. He remained active well into the 2000's and continued to push himself musically with the Jazz Machine, inviting young lions into the fold and touring regularly. Among his sidemen were saxophonists Frank Foster, Joe Farrell, George Coleman, Pepper Adams, Dave Liebman, Pat LaBarbera, Steve Grossman, Andrew White, Ravi Coltrane and Sonny Fortune, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, pianists Dollar Brand and Willie Pickens, keyboardist Jan Hammer and bassists Richard Davis, Jimmy Garrison, Wilbur Little and Gene Perla among others. Elvin Jones recorded as a leader for many labels including Atlantic, Riverside, Impulse, Blue Note, Enja, PM, Vanguard, Honey Dew, Denon, Storyville, Evidence and Landmark.
His dedication and love of the drums was such that even in the face of health problems he continued to mount the drum stand, occasionally accompanied by an oxygen tank. On May 18, 2004, drum legend Elvin Jones suffered heart failure and passed away.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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