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| | Artist : The Blue Note 7 | |
| | Album : Mosaic | |
| | Label : Blue Note Source : CD | |
| | Cat. No. : 50999228123 Size : 77.46 MB | |
| ª Genre : Jazz StrDate: 2008-01-13 ª |
ª _ Quality : 178kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2009-01-19 _ ª
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| | 2009 is the 70th anniversary of the birth of Blue Note, the label | |
| | founded in New York by German emigre Alfred Lion. During its | |
| | mid-1950s to mid-1960s heyday, it was practically synonymous with | |
| | hard bop, nurturing a great many of its leading artists and | |
| | recording dozens upon dozens of classic albums. 2009 is also the | |
| | 25th anniversary of the relaunch of Blue Note under the | |
| | leadership of Bruce Lundvall. | |
| | | |
| | To mark the occasion, Blue Note assembled the seven-piece band | |
| | which recorded Mosaic: A Celebration of Blue Note and which | |
| | starts a 50-city North American tour on January 7. The band's | |
| | repertoire consists exclusively of standards from Blue Note's | |
| | hardbop archive, while its line-up is composed not of surviving | |
| | first-generation label veterans, but of relatively young | |
| | musicians steeped in its legacy. | |
| | | |
| | Musical direction is credited to pianist and current Blue Note | |
| | artist Bill Charlap, but he appears to be first amongst equals | |
| | rather than martinet with a metaphorical baton. Five of the | |
| | eight tracks on Mosaic were arranged by band members other than | |
| | Charlapùdrummer Lewis Nash, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, alto | |
| | saxophonist Steve Wilson and guitarist Peter Bernsteinùwhile | |
| | Charlap arranged another, and fellow pianist and Blue Note artist | |
| | Renee Rosnes the remaining two. By and large, the arrangements | |
| | stay close to the original recorded versions, as do the | |
| | trajectories of the soloists. The intention is not to "reinvent" | |
| | the music, but simply to celebrate it. Most of the tracks last | |
| | around seven minutes and include three or four brief solos. | |
| | | |
| | The album kicks off with two energetic, up tempo readings: | |
| | pianist Cedar Walton's "Mosaic," written for Art Blakey's Jazz | |
| | Messengers, and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson's "Inner Urge." | |
| | They're both exciting, attention-grabbing curtain raisers, but | |
| | it's on the more reflective and moderately-paced tracks which | |
| | follow where the band really shines. Pianist McCoy Tyner's | |
| | "Search For Peace" (arranged by Rosnes), vibraphonist Bobby | |
| | Hutcherson's "Little B's Poem" (arranged by Wilson) and pianist | |
| | Duke Pearson's "Idle Moments" (arranged by Bernstein), the latter | |
| | written for guitarist Grant Green, are each gorgeous. | |
| | | |
| | "Idle Moments," the sublimely chilled-out and lyrical title track | |
| | from Green's 1963 album with Henderson and Hutchersonùwhich also | |
| | included an exquisite version of pianist John Lewis' "Django"ùis | |
| | a particularly hard track to revisit with conviction, so | |
| | enduringly perfect is the original version. But Bernstein turns | |
| | in an extended solo which, though following the contours of | |
| | Green's original, is more than a clever pastiche. | |
| | | |
| | Of the edgier tracks, pianist Thelonious Monk's "Criss Cross," | |
| | first recorded by Monk for Blue Note in 1951 and the oldest | |
| | composition on the album, is the most memorable. Charlap avoids | |
| | imitating Monk, contributing instead a fine solo in his own | |
| | clear-eyed style. | |
| | | |
| | Following the North American tour, which ends with a six-night | |
| | run in mid-April at Birdland in New York, the Blue Note 7 will | |
| | take the tour to Europe in the fall of 2009. | |
| | | |
| | Tracklisting: | |
| | | |
| | 01. The Blue Note 7 - Mosaic 8:32 | |
| | 02. The Blue Note 7 - Inner Urge 7:35 | |
| | 03. The Blue Note 7 - Search For Peace 7:59 | |
| | 04. The Blue Note 7 - Little B's Poem 6:27 | |
| | 05. The Blue Note 7 - Criss Cross 6:54 | |
| | 06. The Blue Note 7 - Dlphin Dance 7:07 | |
| | 07. The Blue Note 7 - Idle Moments 6:35 | |
| | 08. The Blue Note 7 - The Outlaw 6:29 | |
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ª _ Total: 00:57:38 _ ª
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