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| What the World Needs Now |
| Five Play |
| első megjelenés éve: 2008 |
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| (2008)
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| 3.661 Ft
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| 1. | What the World Needs Now Is Love
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| 2. | I Want To Be Happy
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| 3. | Moon Song
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| 4. | Groove Merchant
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| 5. | Slipped Disc
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| 6. | I Could Have Danced All Night
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| 7. | Jo-House Blues
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| 8. | Old Folks
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| 9. | I Am Woman
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Jazz
Sherrie Maricle - Leader, Drums
Jami Dauber - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet
Janelle Reichman - Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet
Tomoko Ohno - Piano
Noriko Ueda - Bass
Five Play was created from the world renowned Diva Jazz Orchestra as a vehicle to feature some of its foremost players. It is a virtual United Nations of Jazz fusing world cultures with extraordinary musicianship and a shared creative vision. This synthesis of talent, passion and global sensibility has produced a fresh, exciting quintet infused with imagination, rooted in jazz tradition and unified by a collective inspiration. It is driven by the same compassion for the music as its male counterparts.
"This CD features a most appealing combination of popular song standards and jazz originals all endowed with innovative and imaginative arrangements. A new album by this highly accomplished and superbly integrated quintet is decidedly what the world needs now. And this is it. -" From the album notes by Mike Hennessey, London-born but now making his home in Germany, a jazz writer, critic, producer, broadcaster and pianist who has covered the international music scene for Billboard magazine for 27 years and has written more than 500 album notes and hundreds of articles, reviews and biographical features for a wide range of jazz magazines, including Coda, Down Beat, Jazz Times and Jazz Journal International.
For the fourth edition of Five Play (not counting the recording they did backing vocalist Maria Anadon,) drummer and founder Sherrie Maricle has assembled yet another quintet from the players in her Diva Big Band. Bassist Noriko Ueda and pianist Tomoko Ohno are the holdovers and do not miss a beat. Janelle Reichman is a very young tenor saxophonist and clarinetist from Michigan who takes over for Anat Cohen. Jami Dauber from Chicago is now the full time trumpeter - she played on half of the previous CD, Five Play Plus. Their repertoire concentrates on standards, a Toshiko Akiyoshi original and two pop songs taken to swing proportions. What these women bring to the table is a finely tuned sense of democracy, style, purpose, and full intent to swing. Their equality and balance is in evidence right off the bat on an easily swung Art Blakey/Jazz Messengers like version of the Hal David-Burt Bacharach written title track. Still in that vein but using a choppy accented melody for "I Want To Be Happy," their bop chops are also well honed. Some songs are typical as on the shuffle "Groove Merchant" or the straight swing blues of Akiyoshi's "Jo-House Blues" again Messenger-ish ala Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan, spiked by Ohno's lead out. Reichman's clean clarinet shines through on the samba take of Benny Goodman's "Slipped Disc" and the broken hearted "Cry Me A River." Dauber's muted plunger trumpet is both pining and humorous during "Moon Song," while Ueda's feature on "Old Folks" marks the coming of a rising star. There's one cut with just the trio sans horns "I Could Have Danced All Night" where Ohno and Ueda cut loose, and Maricle's brushwork on her snare drum is very impressive. While one might hope for the band to let it fly a bit more, that is probably due for a follow up to this professional and enjoyable recording.
---Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide |
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