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Kenny Garrett - Beyond the Wall
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·- · Release Info:
█ Artist: Kenny Garrett
░ Title: Beyond the Wall
█ Release Date: Sep-01-2006
▓ Source: CDDA
▒ Encoder: LAME MP3
▓ Quality: VBR // 44.1kHz
░ Number of tracks: 09
▒ Size: 108,7 MB
▒ Label: Nonesuch
▓ Genre: Jazz
█ Playtime: 76:56 min
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-· · Release Notes/Reviews:
Sometimes homages can be too reverential. Alto
saxophonist Kenny Garrett, with a spiritual energy
mirroring a significant influence, John Coltrane,
intended to use Beyond the Wall as an opportunity to
record with pianist McCoy Tyner, with whom heÆs
shared the bandstand on occasion. Though a scheduling
conflict prevented Tyner from participating, his
spiritùand that of his late employerùlooms large over
the project. The result echoes the scope of larger-
scale Tyner projects like Asante (Blue Note, 1970)
and the fierce modality of middle-period Coltrane.
With Tyner unavailable, GarrettÆs choice of Mulgrew
Miller was inevitable. With so many pianists citing
Bill Evans as a primary influence, Miller has defined
his career by looking to Tyner for his primary
inspiration. Garrett had already tailored his writing
on Beyond the Wall to TynerÆs distinctive language,
so Miller gets to pay tribute but, with a more
muscular sound, still speak with his own voice. And
direct links are forged on most of the disc, to both
Tyner and Coltrane, with the appearances of tenor
saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and vibraphonist Bobby
Hutcherson.
Beyond the Wall came about because of a 2005 visit to
mainland China, inspired by GarrettÆs longstanding
interest in the nationÆs culture and spirituality.
He's always been a deeply passionate player who can
speak volumes with a single note, and the relentless
intensity of the majority of this record makes it the
most purely cathartic album he's ever recorded.
Whether itÆs the out-of-time opening to ôCalling,ö
which resolves into a slow 6/8 vamp where Sanders and
Garrett solo in tandem, or the uptempo burn of the
title track, everyone is firing on all cylinders. And
while the route through Tyner must inherently lead
back to Coltrane, GarrettÆs headsùmore fully-realized
than ColtraneÆs relatively short themesùecho TynerÆs
more compositional approach to setting context for
improvisation.
There is some respite, specifically ôRealization:
Marching Towards the Light),ö where a sampled chorus
is the pulse that drives the song, and the chamber-
like ôTsunami Song,ö featuring Garrett on piano and a
haunting melody played by Guowei Wang on the bowed,
two-stringed erhu.
From there itÆs a gradual buildup from the light funk
of ôKiss to the Skiesö to the finale, ôMay Peace Be
Upon Them.ö ôKissö is one of four songs to feature
wordless vocals and, while theyÆre interesting the
first few times around, they ultimately feel
superfluous. ôMay Peaceö is curiously ambiguous,
beginning in a gentle space but leading to an out-of
-time whirlpool of sound featuring Garrett at his
most visceral.
ItÆs hard to find fault with the deeply emotional
ride of Beyond the Wall except, perhaps, in its
unrelenting seriousness. Still, with a cast of
players this strong, one can forgive its earnestness
and revel in performances that bring TynerÆs and
ColtraneÆs innovations into the 21st Century.
Personnel: Kenny Garrett: alto saxophone (1-4,6-9),
piano (5); Pharaoh Sanders: tenor saxophone (1-4,6-
8); Mulgrew Miller (1-4,6-9); Robert Hurst, III:
bass; Brian Blade: drums; Bobby Hutcherson: vibes
(3,4,6,7,8); Ruggerio Boccato: percussion (1,3,4-8);
Nedelka Echols: vocals (3,4,6,8); Genea Martin, Kevin
Wheatley, Arlene Lewis, Geovanti Steward, Dawn
Caveness: vocals (6,8): vocals; Guowei Wang: erhu
(5); Jonathan Gandelsman: violin (5); Neil Humphrey:
cello (5); Susan Jolles: harp (5).
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=22849
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-··-·-·-·- · Track Listing:
01. calling [09:38]
02. beyond the wall [07:34]
03. qing wen [09:46]
04. realization (marching towards the light) [06:10]
05. trunami song [04:48]
06. kiss the skies [09:40]
07. now [11:49]
08. gwoka [09:15]
09. may peace be upon them [08:16]
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-· · Group Notes:
While keeping loyal to our broad music taste, roaming from
jazz and blues to quality world or top rock music, we've also
lately began covering some live events; not regularly, but with
artist-per-release approach, not releasing records that were
already introduced from other stage performances of the band's
same tour, and also only doing this year's, and always quality,
bootlegs. As you might have also noticed, there has been more
satellite versions of certain shows, or even cd press releases
of them.
But we would like that seen as extra work, because our main
concern was - and always will be - retail cd music. Last but
not least, it's imporant to announce that we finally cut down
on our little smoked-out tagging with first capitals, dots on
dates and all that. We tried to be original, but it turned out
that it only bothered people. So, from now on, we stick to
strict tagging rules, and please note that we've also cancalled
the RARE_JAZZ label and that all of our Jazz releases now come
out under the main group's tagging.
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. // 2006 //