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| 1. | Two For The Road
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| 2. | Old Devil Moon
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| 3. | For The Love Of You
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| 4. | Verrazano Moon
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| 5. | I Miss New York (When I Been Gone Too Long)
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| 6. | Birds
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| 7. | The Shadow of Your Smile
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| 8. | Cinema Paradiso
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| 9. | Pure Imagination
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| 10. | Bright Side Up
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Jazz
Joe Locke Vibraphone, Producer, Liner Notes, Arranger
Alan Silverman Mastering
Alexandros Lambrovassillis Photography
Christoph Risch Cover Photo
Clarence Penn Drums
Geoffrey Keezer Piano
George Mraz Bass
Kenny Washington Vocals
Michael Marciano Engineer, Mixing
Nadja von Massow Graphic Design, Artwork
Russ Titelman Photography
Todd Barkan Producer
Tom Marcello Photography
Joe Locke revisits his Henry Mancini project recording Moment to Moment on this expanded edition, taking some of the songs from that concept album while adding on other show tunes, movie themes, and originals. Retaining longtime bandmate, pianist Geoff Keezer, bassist George Mraz, and drummer Clarence Penn, top-notch vibraphonist Locke taps on his softer side for this effort, featuring vocalist (not the drummer) Kenny Washington to the proceedings. If you are familiar with drummer Jimmy Cobb and Bill Cosby's project So That Nobody Else Can Hear, you'll realize a deep connection, and a parallel of Washington's vocal acumen with that of the late Gregory Hines, known more as a dancer/actor, but also at one point a competent and pleasing jazz singer. Washington holds the same neat and clean, lilting quality Hines possessed, while Locke and Keezer continue to express melodic tandem melodies of shimmering proportions. This is the demure side of jazz, whether on the tender ballads "Two for the Road"; Locke's tribute to the late saxophonist Bob Berg "Verrazano Moon"; or "Pure Imagination" away from its children's song image in 6/8 time, all sung serenely by Washington. On the pop end there's the Isley Brothers familiar "For the Love of You," or Neil Young's "Birds," but it is on "The Shadow of Your Smile" where the arrangement is the star, implying half-speed held tension as drummer Penn stews and bubbles the rhythmic underpinning. "Old Devil Moon" also gives Washington a different format, a hopped-up bop number where his voice interacts more with the other players. There are three instrumentals attuned to the Locke-Keezer unique brand of harmonic convergence, especially rendered on "I Miss New York" in a trampoline-bouncy motion, the tick-tock, appropriately titled "Bright Side Up," or "Cinema Paradiso" with surreal bowed bass from the masterful Mraz, a film noir sketch of suggestive romanticism, and one killer piano solo by Keezer. There's nothing groundbreaking or mind bending here, just solid musicianship expressed in hushed tones by musicians who fully understand the art of subtlety, and recommended to those who appreciate the cooler end of mainstream jazz. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Joe Locke
Active Decades: '80s and '90s
Born: Mar 18, 1959 in Palo Alto, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Straight-Ahead Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Vibraphone/Marimba Jazz
Born in northern California but raised in the northeastern U.S., Joe Locke is a hard bop/post-bop vibist whose main influences include Bobby Hutcherson and Milt Jackson. Locke was a child when he moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Rochester, NY, where he started playing piano and drums at age eight before taking up the vibraphone at 13. Locke, whose father taught classical music, started out playing rock but got heavily into straight-ahead jazz in his early teens. As a teenager, he studied privately with pianist Phil Markowitz and bassist Steve Davis. Locke was in his early 20s when he moved to New York in 1981, and two years later, he wrote the score for the independent film/documentary El Salvador: Another Vietnam. The vibist's first several years in New York were a struggle, but as the '80s progressed, he found himself playing or recording as a sideman for Kenny Barron, Freddy Cole, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Jerry Gonzalez, and others. In the '90s, he toured Japan with Eddie Henderson and was employed on albums by Henderson, Cole, Eddie, Grover Washington, Jr., Dianne Reeves, George Cables, Barbara Dennerlein, Hiram Bullock, and the Charles Mingus Ghost Band. Locke toured Russia four times with tenor saxophonist Igor Butman, one of the country's top jazzmen. As a leader, Locke recorded several albums for the Danish SteepleChase label before joining MilestoneFantasy's roster with 1995's Moment to Moment: The Music of Henry Mancini. His subsequent Milestone dates included 1997's Sound Tracks (which concentrated on songs from famous films) and 1998's Slander (And Other Love Songs). Beauty Burning followed in mid-2000; Storytelling appeared the following year. In 2002 Locke returned with his Storytelling band for State of Soul. For the Love of You arrived in 2010.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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