Larry Goldings Quartet - Quartet
ARTIST.....: Larry Goldings Quartet
TITLE......: Quartet
LABEL......: Palmetto Records
URL........: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7008758
RIP DATE...: Feb-18-2006
STORE DATE.: Jan-24-2006
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 69,6 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Singsong 04:09
02 - Au Bord De L'eau 05:58
03 - Valssinha 05:22
04 - The Wedding 05:56
05 - Hesitation Blues 04:06
06 - Jackie-Ing 03:50
07 - Dario And Bario 03:01
08 - A Dream About Jaki Byard 03:16
09 - Cocoon 07:11
10 - Hidalgo 03:15
11 - Denouement 02:31
12 - We Shall Overcome 03:35
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52:10 min
Release Notes:
In many cases, talented jazz organists also know their way around
the acoustic piano. The late Shirley Scott, for example, was both
an accomplished pianist and accomplished organist, although she
was best known for her organ playing -- and many of the organists
who never made a piano recording were probably quite capable of
doing so. But never recording on the piano is not a problem for
Larry Goldings, who is primarily an organist but plays more
acoustic piano than organ on Quartet. Goldings (who is joined by
trumpeter/cornetist John Sneider, acoustic bassist Ben Allison,
and drummer Matt Wilson) also gets in some accordion, electric
keyboards, and harmonium, but the acoustic piano is dominant this
time -- and whatever instrument Goldings is embracing, no one will
accuse this post-bop effort of having a surplus of warhorses. In
the 21st century, there are way too many straight-ahead jazz
artists (both instrumentalists and vocalists) who insist on
playing nothing but the most overdone warhorses on their albums --
artists who won't touch a song unless it has been recorded as many
times as "My Funny Valentine" or "Body and Soul." But on Quartet,
Goldings and his colleagues find the post-bop potential in
everything from Chico Buarque's "Valsinha" (a Brazilian song) to
W.C. Handy's "Hesitation Blues" to the traditional "We Shall
Overcome." Goldings even finds the jazz possibilities of Bj÷rk's
"Cocoon," and why shouldn't he? Contrary to what some of the more
myopic folks in the jazz world would have you believe, worthwhile
popular music didn't end with Tin Pan Alley. From Goldings'
skillful piano playing to his intriguing variety of material,
Quartet is a CD that the improviser should be proud to have in his
catalog.