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| 1. | Like Joe
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| 2. | Ruminations
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| 3. | Ricky's Tune
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| 4. | No Moe
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| 5. | Available in Blue
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| 6. | Alpha Punk
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| 7. | Laura
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| 8. | Blue November
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Jazz
Recorded on March 6th, 2008, Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ
JOE LOCKE vibes
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ piano
JOHNATHAN BLAKE drums
RICARDO RODRIGUEZ bass
with WAYNE ESCOFFERY tenor (6,8)
and THOMAS MARRIOTT trumpet (4)
Vibraphonist Joe Locke follows up his chart-topping string of recordings with one of his most dynamic and vital CDs yet. Leading a unique new quartet with pianist Robert Rodriguez, drummer Johnathan Blake, & bassist Ricardo Rodriguez, Locke channels the influences of New York, Cuba, Philadelphia and Puerto Rico, as well as the many places traveled by these four player/composers, to create a meld that is unquestionably their own.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Alessandro Perrotta
Photography by Alexandros Lambrovassilis
Cover design by Nadja von Massow
Certain sounds are so easy to love: the blurry whine of a muted trumpet, the beefy growl of a robust tenor saxophone, the rich, frictional cry of the cello, and the buoyant, sustained ring of a mallet hitting a key on a vibraphone.
---All About Jazz (Dan McClenaghan)
Joe Locke couldn't have picked a better name for Force of Four. While not as overtly plugged in as the potent, near fusion-esque Live in Seattle (Origin, 2006) with his Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer Group, it's an equally electrifying date that revisits...
--- All About Jazz (John Kelman)
Joe Locke is one busy vibes man. Between a busy touring schedule, and as probably the premier first call vibes sideman, Joe keeps especially busy recording. Recording as a leader for at least eight different labels in the last 10 years, Locke has exp...
--- Audiophile Audition (Jeff Krow)
Joe Locke is one of the premier vibists on the scene in the 21st century, and this album makes a case for the reason behind it. The man can play the vibes without question, but Force of Four is a sheer tour de force. The album opens with a tribute to Joe Henderson penned by pianist Robert Rodriguez in which Locke starts out with a high-speed flight on the vibes, bouncing around in a near arpeggio that never quite settles, but doesn't stop for a full six minutes. The energy of the band serves only to support his powerful rush. In "Ruminations," the vibes and piano spend a fair amount of time in a slower format, paralleling one another for the main movements, but separating to add a bit of drama and counterpoint as well. "Ricky's Tune" returns Locke to more of a bouncing aesthetic, with a casual groove backing him up, and the Sonny Rollins selection, "No Moe," finds a fitting home in Locke's hands (the pieces was originally recorded in conjunction with Milt Jackson and the Modern Jazz Quartet). The application of the quartet (with the additional hand of trumpeter Thomas Marriott) to the classic Rollins piece is easily the highlight of the album, bringing bebop together with the more modern sound embraced through the majority of the recording effortlessly through a change in the bassline and a different approach to the vibes. As the album moves on, the sound becomes contemplative for "Available in Blue," and briefly almost menacing in "Alpha Punk," as Locke again runs parallel lines, this time with sax player "Wayne Escoffery." Midway through Johnny Mercer's "Laura," Locke lets loose with a particularly fast, but very delicate virtuosic shimmering. The album closes with a somewhat shorter groove, but a more varied one, in tribute of the multi-instrumental master Mark Ledford. Locke's been around the scene for a while, but this album is as fresh as it comes.
--- Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
Joe Locke
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Mar 18, 1959
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop
Born in northern California but raised in the northeastern U.S., Joe Locke is a hard bop/post-bop vibist whose main influences include Bobby Hutcherson and Milt Jackson. Locke was a child when he moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Rochester, NY, where he started playing piano and drums at eight before taking up the vibraphone at 13. Locke, whose father taught classical music, started out playing rock but got heavily into straightahead jazz in his early teens. As a teenager, he studied privately with pianist Phil Markowitz and bassist Steve Davis. Locke was in his early 20s when he moved to New York in 1981, and two years later, he wrote the score for the independent film/documentary El Salvador -- Another Vietnam. The vibist's first several years in New York were a struggle, but as the 1980s progressed, he found himself playing or recording as a sideman for Kenny Barron, Freddy Cole, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Jerry Gonzalez and others. In the '90s, he toured Japan with Eddie Henderson and was employed on albums by Henderson, Cole, Eddie, Grover Washington, Jr., Dianne Reeves, George Cables, Barbara Dennerlein, Hiram Bullock and the Charles Mingus ghost band. Locke toured Russia four times with tenor saxophonist Igor Butman, one of the country's top jazzmen. As a leader, Locke recorded several albums for the Danish SteepleChase label before joining MilestoneFantasy's roster with 1995's Moment to Moment: The Music of Henry Mancini. His subsequent Milestone dates included 1997's Sound Tracks (which concentrated on songs from famous films) and 1998's Slander (And Other Love Songs). Beauty Burning followed in mid-2000; Storytelling appeared the following year. In 2002 Locke returned with his Storytelling band for State of Soul.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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