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| 1. | Va
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| 2. | Sky Life
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| 3. | Contrary Mary
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| 4. | Fountain
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| 5. | Nights at Catalonia
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| 6. | The Gronk
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| 7. | Architect of Time
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| 8. | Bad Stuff
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| 9. | Blue Caribe
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| 10. | Va (Reprise)
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Jazz
Tom Harrell- trumpet & flugelhorn
Wayne Escoffery- tenor sax; Danny Grissett- piano/fender rhodes; Ugonna Okegwo- bass; Johnathan Blake- drums
"If other trumpet players don't have every Tom Harrell album, shame on them!" - Phil Woods
On his HighNote debut, Tom Harrell reaffirms his supreme position in the world of jazz trumpeters, moving gracefully from atmospheric melodies floating atop gentle rhythms to funky modal workouts and densely-layered harmonic explorations. With such outstanding gifts as an instrumentalist it is sometimes easy to overlook the fact that Tom Harrell is firmly in the line of great jazz composers, stretching back to Morton, Ellington, Miles, Monk and others. Featuring his razor-sharp working quintet - Wayne Escoffery, Danny Grissett, Ugonna Okegwo and Johnathan Blake - Harrell & company combine complex compositions, seductive rhythms, advanced harmonic concepts, vibrant solos and sheer inspiration in an album which transcends the jazz idiom and is almost able to reach out and touch the human spirit.
* Don Sickler - Producer
* Joe Fields - Executive Producer
* Keiji Obata - Design
* Maureen Sickler - Assistant Engineer
* Neil Tesser - Liner Notes
* Roy Gumpel - Photography
* Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
As correctly stated in the liner notes by Neil Tesser, Tom Harrell's music takes several listens to fully appreciate, for there is much to discover. For Light On, his first recording as a leader in four years, Harrell contributed all of the compositions. His pieces utilize original chord changes (none are mere run-throughs of rhythm changes), complex but often somewhat catchy melodies, dynamics and subtle surprises. Only the augmented blues "Bleu Caribe," a change of pace, would work at a jam session. Harrell's cool-toned trumpet and flugelhorn contrast well with Wayne Escoffery's muscular tenor; the rhythm section is heated and stimulating; and Danny Grissett is equally effective on both the acoustic piano and the Fender Rhodes. All of the musicians are in top form, which is fortunate since these pieces are not that simple to play. Several of the originals deserve to be adopted and interpreted by other musicians. Overall, Light On is a superior set of modern jazz.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Tom Harrell
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Jun 16, 1946 in Urbana, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz
Tom Harrell has managed to fight courageously (and successfully) against schizophrenia to become one of jazz's top trumpeters of the 1980s and '90s. On-stage, he is totally focused on his playing and seems to only come alive when he is improvising. Harrell grew up in Northern California and toured with Stan Kenton (1969), Woody Herman (1970-1971), and Horace Silver (1973-1977). He moved to New York in the mid-'70s, and played during this period with Cecil Payne, Bill Evans (1979), Lee Konitz's Nonet (1979-1981), and George Russell (1982). Harrell traveled the world with the Phil Woods Quintet (1983-1989) and went on to generally lead his own bands, recording for Contemporary and Chesky before landing at RCA for 1996's Labyrinth; subsequent outings include 1997's The Art of Rhythm and 1999's Time's Mirror, 2001's Paradise and 2003's Wise Children. In 2007, Harrell moved to High Note and released Light On. His style mixes together the power of Clifford Brown with the lyricism of Chet Baker.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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