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| 1. | Treachery
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| 2. | Minotaur
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| 3. | Otra Mirada
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| 4. | Step to It
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| 5. | Maiden
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| 6. | 50
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| 7. | Veil of Tears
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| 8. | Spoken Introduction
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| 9. | Ask Me Why
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Jazz
Albert J. Roman - Project Assistant
Chris Clough - Production Assistant
Christopher Marc Potter - Producer, Sax (Tenor)
Chuck Harris - Engineer
Craig Lovell - Photography
Dave Holland - Bass, Producer
Eric Harland - Drums, Producer
Erika Duffee - Product Manager
Evelyn Haddad - Project Assistant
Glen Barros - Series Executive Producer
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Digital Editing, Piano, Producer
Greg Allen - Art Direction, Design
James Willetts - Assistant Engineer
Jason Olaine - A&R, Liner Notes, Producer
Jerry Takigawa - Design
Larissa Collins - Art Direction, Design
Louise Holland - Producer
Mario Garcia - Digital Editing
Mary Hogan - Project Assistant
Mike Davis - Assistant Engineer
Nick Phillips - Producer
Paul De Barros - Liner Notes
Rikka Arnold - Editorial
Ron Davis - Digital Editing, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
Shawn Anderson - Project Assistant
Tim "T-Bone" Jackson - Concert Producer, Liner Notes, Series Executive Producer
Tyler Clausen - Assistant Engineer
"The Monterey Quartet" is a historic summit of four of today's top Jazz Musicians together on one CD for the very first time!
Dave Holland: Today's most accomplished pure-jazz composer among bassists; his sense of swing is unexcelled.
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: One of the most important figures to emerge from Afro- Cuban jazz; he's an extraordinarily versatile pianist able to blend Cuban and American jazz traditions into a fresh, modern whole.
Chris Potter: One of today's most sophisticated and respected saxophone stylists.
Eric Holland: A drummer extraordinaire who has become a first-call player; his collaborations represent a virtual who's who of modern jazz.
The live performance at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival was mesmerizing and the talk of the festival; now it is captiured live on CD.
At the 50th anniversary of the Monterey Jazz Festival, held in September 2007, bassist Dave Holland, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, saxophonist Chris Potter, and drummer Eric Harland performed the music you hear on this CD twice-first on the main stage, then again at Dizzy's Den, a smaller, more intimate hall on the festival grounds. The main stage premiere thrilled the crowd, to be sure, but something downright magical happened the second time the band played.
"There was really an electric atmosphere from the audience," recalls Holland. "There was an energy we all felt, that kind of circular energy that goes on between the musicians and the audience. It's a very powerful thing when it really takes off."
From the first urgent notes of Harland's "Treachery," you can feel a special situation unfolding. We are fortunate that tape was rolling.
Over its 52-year history, the Monterey Jazz Festival has done well at capturing such moments. You probably already know about Charles Mingus' extraordinary 1964 performance of Meditations on Integration, the debut of the John Handy Quintet the following year and Charles Lloyd's Forest Flower the year after that.
Though all four players come from vastly different backgrounds, they share at least three important characteristics, not the least of which is a penchant for rhythmic complexity (and the dexterity to deal with it). Anyone familiar with Holland's work knows that his ability to swing with locomotive momentum through odd time signatures (or combinations thereof, within a single piece), jagged patterns and polyrhythmic jungles is legendary. Rubalcaba, for his part, has internalized a host of traditional Latin American rhythms, but rather than manifesting them in a folkloric way, he extends them into the modern idiom. Fans of Eric Harland-who may know his work with Blanchard-has recently made a pronounced move toward the world rhythms, as well.
"I'm more influenced by Zakir Hussain these days," says Eric, who has been working with the Indian tabla player in a trio with Charles Lloyd, on the album Sangam. "His consciousness of rhythm opens up a realm for us to communicate on so many polyrhythmic levels, as well as the discovery of different sounds and textures."
"We've all been working on how to work within different meters and not have it sound like an academic exercise, but make it sound like music," says Potter, whose mastery of odd time signatures is evident in his work with Holland as well as on his own.
All four of these players also privilege the idea of jazz as a conversation (as opposed to oration or, God forbid, soliloquy), which means they are all keen listeners as well as speakers. They can turn on a dime when someone else tosses in a dollar, remaining open to the flow of the music as it manifests itself.
Finally, these players also share a third, more elusive quality, one the Andalusian poet Garcia Lorca called duende, and which might best be translated as soulfulness. There is never a moment on this album when-like the bullfighter and bull in the ring-you feel the music is being played for stakes any lower than life and death. This is the real deal.
---From the liner notes by Paul de Barros
In modern jazz, few super groups are formed even for one-shot efforts due to scheduling, but the Monterey Jazz Festival has been inclined to forge bands of steel to perform at their legendary event. Ostensibly a Dave Holland quartet, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba is the missing link, one who has played in the U.S. only sporadically since the political ban of Cuban musicians in the 2000s. Happily he is here with Holland, former Holland quintet tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, and the fantastic drummer Eric Harland, who has been a regular member of Holland's quintet and big band. The difference is that this is in fact truly a co-op combo, with each member contributing original compositions. Rarely does such a band loaded with talent come together so cohesively, making some of the most exciting neo-bop based music to come across the pike in recent memory. As Potter is a post-Michael Brecker stylist, the Harland composition "Treachery" starts off the set in that mode, with a dizzying array of rhythm changes, an Irish jig flavor, and music played at an incredibly high level by all. "50" was written by Rubalcaba for the festival's fiftieth anniversary, a high-powered bop-based piece that is unstoppable, and churns into a tasty, spirited, funky number urged on by the multi-faceted pianist and Potter's expressionism that reflects both John Coltrane and the chortling sounds of Ernie Krivda. The piece contributed by Potter, "Ask Me Why," closes the program powerfully as a complex, quirky, spiky offshoot of a Thelonious Monk-inspired piece, countermanded in an exhaustive, assertive mood, with Latin branches and a kinetic attitude that leaves one gasping for air. Both Harland and especially Holland are given due solo space, the bassist on the intros of the tender and innocent "Maiden," for the drummer's wife, and in quieted urgency as is Holland's style in 10/8 time for the sleek "Step to It" with marvelous unity between Potter and Rubalcaba. There's stark mystery cued by Holland's ostinato lead during "Veil of Tears" with some additional curious sub-plot lines, and the slowed "Minotaur" contributed by Rubalcaba has a bolero flair, but a more dour approach. It would be difficult to deem this recording as anything less than flawless. It's beyond reproach in terms of originality, execution, and pure heartfelt jazz genius. Fans of any of these great musicians will need to have this in your collections, and it bears strong consideration as one of the best jazz releases of 2009. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
The Monterey Quartet
Active Decade: '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop
A jazz supergroup, the Monterey Quartet feature bassist Dave Holland, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, saxophonist Chris Potter, and drummer Eric Harland. Formed in 2007 to play at that year's Monterey Jazz Festival, the band is a true democratic unit, with each member contributing compositions. The Monterey Quartet released the concert album Live at the 2007 Jazz Festival on the festival's label in 2009.
--- Matt Collar, All Music Guide |
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