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| 1. | Slide
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| 2. | September
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| 3. | Arctic Barbeque
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| 4. | Lowered
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| 5. | Late Green
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| 6. | Plant Dance
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| 7. | A Girl Named Joe
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| 8. | Then
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| 9. | Siege
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| 10. | Water Mile
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Jazz
Recorded in New Jersey, 1997
Chris Cheek - Producer, Sax (Tenor)
Ben Monder - Guitar
Dan Rieser - Drums
Jordi Rossy - Drums, Producer
Marc Johnson - Bass
Mark Turner - Sax (Tenor)
Cheek's original music is prominently displayed in this set of challenging yet appealing pieces. Featuring an impressive band with a unique instrumentation. This session features Cheek and Mark Turner on tenor sax, guitar wizard Ben Monder, Marc Johnson on bass and Jorge Rossy and Dan Rieser on drums, which showcases the communion between the pairs of doubled instruments, and Cheek's improvisational and compositional talent as well. "Cheek deserves praise for this intelligent set of creative, original music"
(Bird Jazz Magazine).
* Jordi Pujol - Producer
Chris Cheek takes a bold step forward with this all-original date. With two tenors (Cheek and Mark Turner) and two drummers (Jordi Rossy and Dan Rieser), the instrumentation is somewhat unusual. Guitarist Ben Monder and bassist Marc Johnson complete the lineup. Johnson is an excellent choice, given the rock leanings of "Arctic Barbecue" and "Plant Dance," the dark folk elements of "Lowered," and even the country traces of the title track. With his own groups, Johnson has flirted with precisely this sort of eclecticism. Cheek's compositions, like Johnson's, are tuneful and surprising, full of moves you wouldn't expect from a jazz player. Perhaps it's his middle-American upbringing coming to the surface.
On the jazzier side are Cheek's waltzes "September" and "Siege" and his closing 6/4 chart "Water Mile," which features probing solos from the two tenors. Monder's playing on every number is strong, as usual, not least on his own "Late Green," the album's most radical track and the only one not written by Cheek.
---David R. Adler, All Music Guide
Chris Cheek
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Cool, Hard Bop, Post-Bop
Chris Cheek is among the cream of a young new crop of jazz musicians who came of age in New York during the 1990s. Raised in St. Louis, the tenor and soprano saxophonist attended Webster University before relocating to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. There he studied with Joe Viola, Hal Crook, and Herb Pomeroy, among others. In 1992 he made the move to New York, and has since worked with Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Guillermo Klein's Los Guachos, Seamus Blake's Bloomdaddies, Stephan Crump, and Jen Chapin. His appearance on pianist David Berkman's Communication Theory, alongside fellow saxophonists Steve Wilson and Sam Newsome, further cemented his reputation as a first-tier player. As a leader, Cheek records for the groundbreaking Fresh Sound label. His 1997 debut, I Wish I Knew, was a standards session featuring guitar whiz Kurt Rosenwinkel. His second album, an all-original date titled A Girl Named Joe, followed in 1998. Vine was released in 2000.
--- David R. Adler, All Music Guide |
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