ARTIST: Tim Ries
TITLE: Stones World: Rolling Stones Project Vol. 2
LABEL: Sunny Side Records
GENRE: Jazz
BITRATE: 192kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 38min total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-10-21
RIP DATE: 2008-10-19
Track List: CD 1/2
1. Baby Break It Down 6:22
2. Under My Thumb 8:35
3. Hey Negrita 10:43
4. No Expectations 4:29
5. Miss You 6:40
6. Fool To Cry 5:23
7. You Can't Always Get What You 9:22
Want
8. Brown Sugar 4:48
9. Salt Of The Earth 7:59
Track List: CD 2/2
1. Jumpin' Jack Flash 12:33
2. Angie 7:07
3. A Funky Number 8:21
4. Lady Jane 5:44
This stupendous two-CD, 13-track release by tenor/soprano saxophonist Tim Ries
an extraordinary jazz musician and member of the Rolling Stones touring band
since 1999 translates the Stones immortal songbook into ingenious and uncharted
jazz-influenced, world music territories, with Stones members Mick Jagger, Ron
Wood, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, along with salsa/Latin pianist Eddie
Palmieri, jazz drum giant Jack DeJohnette, the Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura,
vocalists Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer, and the Brazilian superstar, Milton
Nascimento.
A well-rounded artist who has worked with everybody from Sheryl Crow and Steely
Dan to Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon, Ries has released four critically acclaimed
jazz records as a leader. This effort is Ries s long-anticipated follow-up to
his 2005 Concord release, The Rolling Stones Project, which offered a more
jazzed take on the Stones music, and featured Norah Jones. But while the jazz
influence is evident on this project, the vibe reflects a more global-centric
take, born from Ries s world tours with the band.
My goal became clear: to record with local musicians, in the style particular to
the region, in each of the various countries where the world tour took us...
Ries writes in the liner notes. I set the music in the various world music
styles, but the arrangements were only a guide for the exceptional musicians
involved in each situation.
Ries sinewy and soaring sax lines and Wide World arrangements swing and sing in
a marvelous multitude of tones and tongues, supported by vocalists Bernard
Fowler, Lisa Fischer, organist Larry Goldings, drummers Clarence Penn and
Gregory Hutchinson, bassist John Patitucci and guitarist Ben Monder. Save for
the leader s lone original track, the Crusaders-colored A Funky Number, with the
incredible Japanese trumpeter Terumasa Hino, the rest of the selections are all
Stones classics: Baby Break It Down, is a Tokyo-toned take with vocalist Minako
Yoshida. Miss You and Fool to Cry, are Parisian-pulsed waltz and
accordion-featured tracks driven by Watts sensitive drumming and French pianist
Franck Amsallem, contrasted by Jack DeJohnette s New York-nuanced drums and Bill
Frisell s twangy guitar lines on You Can t Always Get What You Want. Brown
Sugar, and No Expectations are rendered as passionate Portuguese fado songs sung
by fadista Ana Moura, matched by the gospelized/flamenco fury of Jumpin Jack
Flash with dancer Sara Baras, while the Iberian impressionism takes on a Puerto
Rican salsa sizzle on Under My Thumb, powered by Eddie Palmieri s propulsive
piano solo, matched by Milton Nascimento s passionate Afro-Brazilian look at
Lady Jane. On the other side of the globe, Indian tabla master Badal Roy
provides the sub-continental syncopations on the fusion-friendly Angie. The
North African, blues-Berber beat on Hey Negrita, with the Tuareg band Tidwat, is
laced with Mick Jagger s down-home harmonica and Ronnie Wood s smoking guitar
solos. Salt of the Earth is an all-embracing selection that draws from America,
Asia, and Africa, with Ries daughter Jasia on vocals and rapper, Fe.
All of Tim Ries powers are evident in this amazing recording; a well-traveled CD
that rocks and rolls with global grooves. Every major religion, race, and
ideology is represented on these tracks, Ries writes in the liner notes. ...
Like children, we instinctively go to that natural place when boundaries are
obscured by the magic of the moment.
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