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| The Talk of the Town |
| Bennie Wallace |
első megjelenés éve: 1993
49 perc |
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| (1993)
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| 3.736 Ft
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| 1. | The Best Things in Life Are Free
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| 2. | It's the Talk of the Town
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| 3. | Thangs
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| 4. | I Concentrate on You
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| 5. | The Picayune
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| 6. | It Has Happened to Me
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| 7. | If I Lose
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| 8. | Blues Velvet
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Jazz
Post-Bop
Recorded: Jan 1993
Bennie Wallace ts
Jerry Hahn g
Bill Huntington b
Alvin Queen dr
Nearly fifteen years have passed since Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning debut release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues" (on ENJA), that established the young tenorist as a genuine original and a force to be reckoned with. Here was a style that acknowledged the inspiration of such saxophone giants as Lester Young, Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins, and Eric Dolphy in a setting so fresh, so personal, and so individualistic that Wallace became the most recognizeable voice on tenor in the 80's.
That auspicious debut has been followed by recorded collaborations with a wide-ranging assortment of luminaries, including Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Dr. John. In recent years, Wallace started a second career as a composer of film soundtracks. He composed (among others) the entire musical score for "Blaze", which features Paul Newman as former Louisiana governor Earl Long, and for "White Men Can't Jump", a basketball movie.
Now Chattanooga-born Wallace is back on the scene with a new quartet that radiates strength. Guitarist Jerry Hahn, his front-line partner, has been a legendary performer in the late 60's when he appeared with John Handy, Gary Burton and the pop/soul group Fifth Dimension. Bass player Bill Huntington has a long string of credits so diverse as to include New Orleans-style traditionalists George Lewis and Ken Colyer alongside modern-era stalwarts such as Duke Pearson, Red Garland, Sonny Stitt, and Ellis Marsalis. For several years now, Alvin Queen has been simply one of the most powerful and electrifying drum players on the scene.
The Talk Of The Town finds Bennie Wallace once again in the somewhat paradoxical role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist, challenging the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic boundaries of his material while at the same time maintaining a strong connection to the roots of his art and of his native Southern culture. On this recording, the tenorist's own highly original compositions share the space with a few favorite standards and a pop song that only a Bennie Wallace (or a Sonny Rollins) would think of as a potential jazz vehicle: "The Best Things In Life Are Free". |
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