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artist: SF Jazz Collective
album: SF Jazz Collective 2
label: Nonesuch
cat: 79930
year: 2006
genre: Jazz
source: Cdda
grabber:
encoder: LAME 3.90.3 --Alt-Preset Standard
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 107,6 MB
link: http://www.nonesuch.com/
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 05:53 Moment's Notice
02 05:48 Naima
03 07:00 Scrambled Eggs
04 13:26 Half Full
05 11:26 2 and 2
06 08:49 Crescent
07 14:04 Africa
08 09:05 Development
total time: 75:31 min
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│release notes.
"The SF Jazz Collective is a younger, more stylistically
adventurous version of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, a
repertory-minded super-group with a defined home base that tours at
upscale theaters instead of clubs, aiming at middle-class
pocketbooks. Both intend to educate as much as entertain, but SF
Jazz, with Joshua Redman at the helm, manages to sound contemporary
by emphasizing individual composition as much as repertory, while
the LCJO routinely gets bogged down getting misty eyed about the
past.
Each year SF Jazz selects a list of works by a pantheon composer to
perform, while each member composes an original piece in addition.
In their debut year they tangled with Ornette Coleman, which
produced their first self-titled album. This past year found them
mining John Coltrane, which resulted in the excellent SF Jazz
Collective 2. Next it's Herbie Hancock, whose tunes they're
currently touring with, and which will undoubtedly make up volume
3.
The album features four Coltrane compositions and four originals,
which do not suffer in the comparison. It begins with the
propulsive ôMoment's Notice,ö originally recorded for Blue Train in
1957. Nicholas Payton traipses out of the gate with a fierce,
brightly ringing solo, not straying far from the melody but deftly
punctuating each phrase with precision. Isaac Smith's solo follows
with darker tones and more flowing lines, staying in the low
register, but fails to wring out enough variations to justify its
length. Thankfully that's when the band picks up the theme again
for the close.
Payton penned the strongest original, ôScrambled Eggs,ö an impish
and schizophrenic tune that begins with halting trumpet squawks, a
breezy piano run, and a thunderous brass harmony. The tempo
drunkenly staggers, briefly sobering up for a jaunty rhythm that a
cacophony of dissonant brasses swiftly upendùuntil they stop on a
dime and arpeggio down the scale as pianist Renee Rosnes swoops up
it. A series of breaks are finessed by Rosnes until the frenzied
plinking meets up with growling horns for a stop-time close. It's
an exhausting and exhilarating piece.
Other highlights include Redman's ôHalf Full,ö a slow-burn epic
that's heavy on drama but wields a theme sturdy enough to bear up
under the self-importance. Bobby Hutcherson is featured on
Coltrane's intimate ballad ôNaimaö (1959) and shows a graceful and
lithe touch. Nicholas Payton, who ends up dominating the album,
offers another sterling solo on ôCrescentö (1964), where he murmurs
and rumbles with lucid emotional intensity. It's stirring and
raucous stuff"
Review by R. Emmet Sweeney taken from http://www.allaboutjazz.com
Personnel:
Joshua Redman : soprano and tenor saxophone;
Miguel Zenon : alto saxophone;
Nicholas Payton : trumpet;
Isaac Smith : trombone;
Renee Rosnes : piano;
Bobby Hutcherson : vibraphone, marimba;
Matt Penman : bass;
Eric Harland : drums.
Enjoy :D
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