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| I'm All for You - Ballad Songbook |
| Joe Lovano |
első megjelenés éve: 2003
60 perc |
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| (2004)
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CD |
| 2.823 Ft
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| 1. | I'm All for You
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| 2. | Don't Blame Me
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| 3. | Monk's Mood
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| 4. | The Summary
From Suite for Pops
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| 5. | Stella By Starlight
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| 6. | I Waited for You
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| 7. | Like Someone in Love
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| 8. | Early Autumn
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| 9. | Countdown
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Jazz / Mainstream Jazz; Ballads; Post-Bop
Recorded: Jun 11-12, 2003, Avatar Studios, New York, New York
Joe Lovano - tenor sax
Hank Jones - piano
George Mraz - bass
Paul Motian - drums and cymbals
Saxophonist and dynamic improviser Joe Lovano has assembled an incredible line up comprising of legendary pianist Hank Jones, long time band mate/drummer Paul Motian, and the great bassist George Mraz. Together they have collectively produced an album of beautiful standards and ballads, but this release is anything BUT standard.
With all of its distinctive and special qualities, I'm All For You - Ballad Songbook, has allowed Joe and the band to express their musical approaches to the ballad. Remarkable simplicity shines brightly on every track and makes this album is an instant Blue Note classic.
The initial pickup notes and tempo of the title selection on the first track promptly reveals the direction the very accomplished tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano is taking on his 16th Blue Note record I'm All for You-Ballad Songbook.
Rooted in his days as a developing young player in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was born in 1952, an all-ballad project has long been contemplated by Lovano. He has made a habit of interpreting compositions that have touched his soul as a developing musician. Some were tunes that he heard people play on records and others that he heard his dad, Tony "Big T" Lovano, play and practice. He realized early on that some of the music that touched him most deeply were the expressive ballads.
Experiences such as playing ballads with the long-running Paul Motian Trio alongside Bill Frisell, doing some concerts with Charlie Haden and recording with Gonzalo Rubalcaba fortified his readiness to embark on this project with confidence. His fertile imagination and relish for fresh challenges have earned him a multitude of awards and accolades. This ballad album is another notch in his log of achievements and enlightened leadership.
Clarifying its rationale, Lovano says, "The intent is to be creative, to sustain the mood but to also be rhythmically diverse and free within the music because all tempos are in there. What it means to play a ballad is not to just be playing it slow. It's feeling all the possibilities in the rhythms, allowing the music to flow."
Joe Lovano
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Dec 29, 1952 in Cleveland, OH
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Ballads, Post-Bop, Hard Bop
Active during a period of jazz history when it seemed radical innovation was a thing of the past, Joe Lovano nevertheless coalesced various stylistic elements from disparate eras into a personal and forward-seeking style. While not an innovator in a macro sense, Lovano has unquestionably charted his own path. His playing contains not an ounce of glibness, but possesses in abundance the sense of spontaneity that has always characterized the music's finest improvisers. Lovano doesn't adopt influences -- he absorbs them -- so that when playing a standard, he exudes the same sense of abandon as when playing totally free (which, it should be pointed out, he does well, if infrequently). Lovano's most significant achievement is his incorporation of free and modal expressive devices into traditional chord-change improvisation.
Lovano is the son of the respected Cleveland saxophonist Tony "Big T" Lovano. Joe started playing alto sax as a child, taught by his father, who also introduced him to jazz. In his youth, Joe would hear many of the prominent jazz artists who passed through town, including Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Sonny Stitt, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Lovano began playing in jam sessions around Cleveland while still in his teens. Although thoroughly steeped in bebop, he also developed an interest in the jazz experimentalism of the 1960s, listening to such musicians as John Coltrane, Jimmy Giuffre, and Ornette Coleman. Following high school, Lovano moved to Boston and attended the Berklee School of Music. Fellow students included such future collaborators as John Scofield, Bill Frisell, and Kenny Werner. While at Berklee, Lovano discovered modal harmony and opened up to the broad areas of tonal freedom that he found so attractive in the music of John Coltrane, among others.
After leaving Berklee, Lovano worked with organists Lonnie Smith (with whom he made his recording debut) and Jack McDuff. He toured with Woody Herman from 1976-1979. After leaving Herman, Lovano settled in New York City, where he quickly established himself. He joined drummer Mel Lewis' orchestra in 1980; he played the band's regular Monday night gigs at the Village Vanguard until 1992. He also recorded several times with the band. Lovano would also work with Elvin Jones, Carla Bley, Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden, and Bob Brookmeyer, among others. He joined drummer Paul Motian's band in 1981 (which also included his Berklee classmate Frisell), and played with guitarist John Scofield's quartet. Lovano began leading dates for Blue Note in the '90s, and continued doing so throughout that decade and into the next, recording in a variety of contexts ranging from trios to larger woodwind and brass ensembles. Lovano received a number of Grammy nominations for his work on Blue Note. His 1996 album Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note) was named Jazz Album of the Year by readers of Downbeat Magazine. Lovano's wife is vocalist Judi Silvano.
Since then, Lovano has split his time in the studio between releasing impressive original recordings and albums reinterpreting the work of artists who have influenced him, including vocalist Frank Sinatra on 1996's Celebrating Sinatra, various bop-era stalwarts including pianist Tadd Dameron on 2000's 52nd Street Themes, and opera tenor Enrico Caruso on 2001's Viva Caruso. In 2004, the always unpredictable reedman released the ballads album I'm All for You, featuring journeyman pianist Hank Jones. Joyous Encounter followed in spring 2005 with Streams of Expression appearing on Blue Note a year later. Lovano once agian paired up with Jones for the live duets album Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in 2007.
---Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide |
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