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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | The Jupiter Line
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| 2. | Way out of Willy
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| 3. | String Quartet in G Minor (Second Movement)
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| 4. | Fear of Roaming
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | The Feeling of Jazz
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| 2. | Spacing
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| 3. | Ladeirinha
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| 4. | Darn That Dream
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| 5. | Dance Me Home
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Jazz / Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz
Seamus Blake - Producer, Sax (Tenor)
Danton Boller Double Bass
Dave Kikoski Piano
Katsuhiko Naito Mixing, Mastering
Maurizio Curcio Engineer
Rodney Green Drums
Seamus Blake Quartetbr Seamus Blake, tenor saxophonebr David Kikoski, piano, Rodney Green, drums, Danton Boller, double-bass
To consider that saxplayer Seamus Blake was inclosed in the Downbeat Critics Poll as an "artist deserving of wider recognition", that Pat Metheny described him as "the best tenor player I've heard in a couple of years" (Jazz Times April 1997), that John Scofield hired him for his Quiet Band,calling him "extraordinary, a total saxophonist" or that he placed 1st in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition in February 2002, all that only attests a part of this very interesting musician's course. ..London..born - but ..Vancouver.. raised - saxophonist showcases a fluent phrasing both on tenor and soprano, forged during the best years of jazz in '90s ....New York City....,together with his pals Mark Turner, Kevin Hays, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Larry Grenadier. He also worked as long standing member of the Mingus Big Band -featuring on their last recordings on Dreyfuss - and has just recorded with Victor Lewis Quintet for the third time. He also borrows his sax to some of the most intriguing bands of the modern scene, like Bloom daddies (a funky,alternative grunge jazz), and the very jazz Sangha Quartet.....
With his own quartet, Seamus Blake releases his very first live album, Livein Italy, under Jazz Eyes, a double Cd where the refined band - which lines-up David Kikoski on piano, Danton Boller on double-bass and Rodney Greenon drums - plays some powerful Blake's tunes, one by Kikoski, and pieces from Scofield, Ellington and Van Heusen/DeLange, as well as an astonishing jazz version of Debussy's String Quartet in G minor....
In the post-Michael Brecker era, Seamus Blake has become of one the very best tenor saxophonists in contemporary jazz. He displays a compact style in playing notes and phrases, with just enough bite and bold inventiveness to take the music into his own personal realm. These are very good reasons why he is the lead soloist in the Mingus Big Band, and can front his own group with distinction and no modicum of originality. Blake played dates in Italy during February of 2007, and these recordings comprise music from that tour via concerts in Palermo, Senigallia, and Cesenatico. Extended pieces with plenty of room for improvisation pleased patrons at the concerts, and should easily do the same for fans who purchase this recording. The fantastic pianist David Kikoski is on board, and gives his usual stellar performance. Why he is not consistently in the top five of modern jazz keyboardists is a mystery -- he's simply brilliant. Drummer Rodney Green is also an unsung hero deserving wider recognition, while bassist Danton Boller is solid as he needs to be in the presence of these fine musicians. The band does a very long-winded interpretation of Claude Debussy's lullaby "String Quartet in G Minor; Second Movement" with Blake's strained tenor acting as a violin, and a waltz take of Djavan's "Ladeirinha" in ballad style that stretches the imagination, both tracks a bit out of their collective comfort zones. Blake's original compositions are the selections here deserving noteworthy status, as "The Jupiter Line" and "Way out Willie" are individualistic yet cut in the cloth of the New York City neo-bop style that the Brecker Brothers designed in the '80s. The former piece is a prototype modal funky swinger loaded with unison lines from Kikoski and Blake, and breakaway tangents where their own voices shine through, the keyboardist going to electronics as well alongside his chiming chordal movements that drive the song. "Willie," the title track from Blake's 2007 Criss Cross CD, is a modified New Orleans shuffle, as he adopts a low timbre singing sound quite reminiscent of John Handy. "Fear of Roaming" is a third original, a spirited 4/4 modal jam with the lower end bass note punctuations between Blake and Kikoski in complete agreement, a good example of modern straight-ahead jazz for the new millennium. Kikoski's great composition "Spacing" is most impressive, as he improvises a brilliant solo intro, then moves to a hard bop, jagged edged melody that implies the title with pedal points that moves quickly into a jam. The band respectfully does Duke Ellington's "The Feeling of Jazz" fast and straight laced, then cools down into an easier swing much like Michael Brecker did it, plays "Darn That Dream" in straight and true ballad form, and closes with John Scofield's witty, hopping neo-bopper "Dance Me Home," with great spontaneity and verve. Nearly a flawlessly played program loaded with intelligently selected music, its individual tracks are too long to acquire much radio air time, and difficult in one sitting to absorb. Those who take the time to listen will find many gifts and treasures within the folds of these two CDs, firmly keeping Blake at the forefront of the modern jazz movement. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Seamus Blake
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: 1969 in England
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop
Seamus Blake is an up-and-coming saxophonist who has mostly worked as a sideman. Raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Blake played violin at the age of nine, but it was not until he was 14 and started playing alto in his high school stage band that he became serious about music. Soon switching to tenor, Blake attended Berklee College in Boston a few years later, where he had the opportunity to interact with many of the Young Lions. After moving to New York in September 1992, Blake recorded with Victor Lewis (for Red), Franco Ambrosetti, Billy Drummond, Darrell Grant (the latter two for Criss Cross), and Kevin Hayes (Blue Note), and led his own Criss Cross sets. Seamus Blake has toured with John Scofield, worked regularly with the Mingus Big Band, and headed his own electronic group, the Bloomdaddies.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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