Nominated "Best Jazz Recording" by the Boston Globe Music Awards
Jazz / Post-Bop
Bob Moses - Cover Art, Author, Drums, Liner Notes
Tisziji Munoz - Author, Guitar, Liner Notes
Ben Wittman - Drums
Billy Martin Executive Producer, Photography
Brad Hatfield Keyboards
Brian Capouch Mastering
George Garzone Saxophone
Illy Yalitzo Layout Design, Design
Jerry Bergonzi Saxophone
John Lockwood Bass
John Medeski Piano
Rob Jaczko Engineer
Wesley Wirth Bass
Tisziji Munoz, more than any other musician I know understands, promotes and inspires the sacred purpose of music. That is liberation, compassion, transformation and at-one-ment with the beautiful, messy, chaos of the universe.
--- Bob Moses
Love Everlasting is a very special celebration of love, love of real music and the love of playing music with symphathetic kindred spirits. The music on this rare and sacred 23rd of September, 1987, for those musicians who played on this date, is a genuinely heart felt testament of everyone's love of Spirit, Soul, innocence, truth and creativity. Hence and respectfully, Love Everlasting is humbly offered to all in profound appreciation of the work of the great John Coltrane.
---Tisziji Munoz
A loving tribute to John Coltrane co-led by percussionist guru Bob Moses and out guitarist Tisziji Munoz, Love Everlasting creates a magnificent wall of sound in the spirit of Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Far more than a tribute, the music on the disc -- which features a surprisingly restrained double-quartet lineup plus guitar -- brims with joy, frequently reaching into chaos, but never becoming violent or unlistenable. Each set of musicians -- saxophonists George Garzone and Jerry Bergonzi, keyboardists Brad Hatfield and John Medeski (who would go on to co-found Medeski, Martin & Wood), bassists John Lockwood and Wesley Wirth, and drummers Moses and Ben Wittman -- works like a platonic unit, each musician completing his partner's thoughts. Bergonzi and Garzone work particularly well together, citing passages from Coltrane's own "Acknowledgment" (the first cut off A Love Supreme). Unfortunately, until his own "Earth Changes," Munoz is all but buried in the mix. The disc closes with an elegant version of Coltrane's "Naima," unfortunately dated by the hideous bed of synthesizers on which the melody rests. ~ Jesse Jarnow, All Music Guide
Bob Moses
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Jan 28, 1948 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop
A fine drummer, Bob Moses has received his strongest recognition as a colorful and adventurous arranger/composer for large ensembles. He played as a teenager with Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1964-1965), formed the early fusion group Free Spirits with Larry Coryell (1966), and toured with Gary Burton's quartet (1967-1969). Moses collaborated with Dave Liebman in the trio Open Sky, recorded with Gary Burton in the mid-'70s, and worked with Jack DeJohnette's Compost, Pat Metheny (recording Bright Size Life), Mike Gibbs, Hal Galper, Gil Goldstein, Steve Swallow, the Steve KuhnSheila Jordan group (1979-1982), George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band, and Emily Remler (1983-1984). He recorded as a composer for his own Mozown label in 1975, but Moses' reputation as a writer rests primarily with his Gramavision releases, especially When Elephants Dream of Music (1982), Visit With the Great Spirit (1983), and 1994's Time Stood Still. Nishoma was issued in fall 2000.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
