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Cary Kilner's Picks: Volume 34
Jacob Collier – Lua He continues to kill it with his extensive talent. Absolutely exquisite 2-minute string intro. This music from Jacob transcends any categorization, IMHO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PIMR_oGRcU Oscar Peterson – Let There Be Love It doesn’t get any better than this if you like solid swing, given the classic trio with Herb Ellis on guitar, providing a wonderful cushion to the swing. Talking about introductions, note how delicately he begins the tune, with some typically outstanding bass work from Ray Brown. I always wondered why he used guitar at that time and not drums for a trio. But it swings like hell – so what? I think Nat King Cole used the same instrumentation to great success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbIqh8w1GgA Larry Lofquist – All’s Going Well for Now This is a tune of mine played by my very old friend from Michigan. He originally gave it a name and added lyrics. I sent it to another friend who later sent it back to me. I had forgotten that I had sent it to him, and when I played it back I thought it was me playing. Larry had been studying the tune and played it almost exactly as I do. It perfectly represents my concept for the tune, so I hope you like it. He is playing it on his recently-tuned Bosendorfer piano in Vienna where he lives, and his miking is very good. https://soundcloud.com/larrylofquist/alls-going-well-for-now Freddie Hubbard — Obliqui Valley This is some outstanding Freddie and the rhythm section just kills: Miles’ rhythm section of Ron, Tony, and Herbie! We heard One Finger Snap from this album, Empyrean Isles, in Week #10. As another comment on introductions; note how integral it was to setting up the tune. Listen closely to the interplay and how they build energy during Herbie’s early solo until Freddie slides in with some exquisite playing – very melodic and interesting lines, with no unnecessary attention drawn to his prodigious technique. Tony is just killin’ it on drums! This is the real deal and one of my “desert island” albums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCWiCRmmXE8 We heard the Joshua Redman group in #28 perform the wonderful Right Back Round Again. There is also a live version that I did not reference at the time, and certainly worthy of investigation. I consider this tremendously talented and creative group the “new” mainstream jazz of this generation. And I regard Christian McBride and Brian Blade as the “new” Ron and Tony. They appear together frequently as the rhythm section in quite a few recent groups, and recently with Wayne Shorter, providing the very modern support he needs (with Danilo Perez marvelous on piano). I should like to present three more jazz piano trios, including one with Brad Meldhau. When he first came on the scene, his sound was likened to that of Keith Jarrett. As he has developed, we hear a whole new approach to trio playing. (Note I gave a SJS talk in the Portsmouth Library on jazz piano trios several years ago.) Brad Meldhau — Great Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hq9BFCSfJo Chick Corea Trio — Work Here is a well-known Thelonius Monk tune with McBride and Blade filling out Chick’s 2013 trio performance. Note how he gives musical reference to both Monk and to Brad Meldhau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpVef_no_cwCary Kilner's Picks: Volume 33 |
