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Artist......: John Lang
Album.......: Earotica
Label.......: Cellar Music
Genre.......: Jazz
Catnr.......: CMR122522
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2024-05-14
Str.date....: 2023-09-15
Quality.....: 880 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://johnlangbass.com
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1. Poetry In Commotion 4:40
2. Jamuary 6:21
3. Piano Intro 1:27
4. In My Fallitude 6:05
5. Flotando 5:42
6. Blues For Faddis 8:22
7. Sight Unseen 6:06
8. Payabale In Hats 6:28
9. Schoolin' 5:44
10. The St. Vitus Dance 5:13
11. So You Say 6:40
12. Trepidation 8:24
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,: When John Lang arrived in New York from California, in 2000, he :,
: had an upright bass and an electric bass and no definite place :
:' to keep them. I didn t know anybody, so I just got the first ':
,: apartment I could, he says. By luck, his new place was a few :,
: floors down from David Happy Williams the great bassist who, :
:' along with Billy Higgins and Cedar Walton, made up one of the ':
,: elegant and propulsive rhythm sections ever to play jazz. :,
: Williams put his new neighbor on the guest list for shows, and :
:' what Lang heard transformed him. When you went into the ':
,: Village Vanguard and the band was on, the whole room felt like :,
: it was floating, he says. That s still what we re all shooting :
:' for. ':
,: :,
: During the pandemic, the Vanguard shut down, and so did just :
:' about every place else. In New York, live music was effectively ':
,: dead. But Lang, like other musicians, drew inspiration from Duke :,
: Ellington s motto of resilience: I merely took the energy it :
:' takes to pout and wrote some blues. Lang began digging through ':
,: lead sheets unfinished ideas from a busier time. He made a date :,
: with a studio, and he thought about an ideal band: an octet, as :
:' powerful and varied as a big band but lighter on its feet. ':
,: There were a lot of cats around town who didn t have enough :,
: work, he says. So I called up my dream team and they all said :
:' yes. It was only after the roster was full that he realized ':
,: the recording date was just twelve weeks away. :,
: :
:' For the next three months, he d have to arrange a tune every ':
,: week. :,
: He conceived of the album as an evening of music in one of New :
:' York s clubs the ideal set that, with everything shut down, we ':
,: couldn t hear. After decades as a working musician, Lang was :,
: fluent in the city s musical idioms: he knew how to write an :
:' easygoing swinger, or a funk jam, or a Latin cascara. Best of ':
,: all, he was deeply familiar with his players strengths and :,
: idiosyncrasies. When I sat down to write, I knew who I was :
:' writing for, he says. ':
,: :,
: The result is the best kind of social music, constructed to :
:' engage both the musicians in the band and the listeners in the ':
,: crowd. Blues for Faddis, a tribute to the great trumpeter Jon :,
: Faddis, features one of his star protegees, Bruce Harris. Bruce :
:' is a great blues soloist, with encyclopedic knowledge, Lang ':
,: says. Roberta Piket, the pianist, contributed an interlude that :,
: became the intro to In My Fallitude. Piket and the guitarist :
:' Pete McCann are longtime collaborators, so Lang gave them a ':
,: moment of musical solidarity: In Poetry and Commotion, it s :,
: them against the band for a while, and I knew they d like that. :
:' The music here traverses many moods: gritty, pensive, lyrical, ':
,: down-home. The common thread is an emphasis on the feel of :,
: dancing. My mother ran a dance company, and I grew up in the :
:' disco era, Lang says. I ve always thought that music should ':
,: be danceable. :,
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