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专辑名称: Just Coolin'
创作艺人: [Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers]
音乐流派: Jazz|爵士
专辑规格: 1碟6首
出品公司: Blue Note Records
发行时间: 2020/7/17
官方标价: £5.49 （会员免费下载）
域名语言: [en] （AI检测）
曲目介绍：
Hipsippy Blues
Close Your Eyes
Jimerick
Quick Trick
M&M
Just Coolin'
详细介绍:
This time capsule, recorded in 1959 in Rudy Van Gelder%27s Hackensack, NJ, living room and left undisturbed in the Blue Note vaults until now, contains the essential DNA of the first flowering of hard bop in the late %2750s. All the genre hallmarks are present: There are intricate chase-scene originals and clever arrangements (the standard Close Your Eyes) and brash blues-inflected outbursts that light up the solos. And yet, transcending those individual traits, defining not just the notes but the very spirit of the endeavor, is a quality that doesn%27t get discussed enough in jazz—precision, as in persnickety dotted i%27s and crossed t%27s.
At times it%27s downright startling hearing these five musicians nail the details to the wall. They%27re hardly just coolin%27 here; they%27re attentive to the small nuances of tunes that might have been written the morning of the session. You can detect the commitment in the pitch-bending doiiiits and the staccato single-note jabs, in the explosion of a long-cresting press roll and the deliberate, nothing-extra stride of a Blakey-trademarked medium-tempo swing. You can hear it in the way trumpeter Lee Morgan and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley phrase together, adding grace notes that are almost inaudible but key nonetheless. And you can%27t miss it in the thrillingly open lanes where the solos happen. Blakey was revered for the communication he cultivated between musicians; using a repertoire of hits and jabs, he pulled his collaborators into rich, sometimes boisterous discussions, a mode of interplay that in many ways defines hard bop.
There are plenty of examples on this record, but perhaps the most crystalline comes during Morgan%27s first few choruses on Jimerick, a blazing uptempo blues. He begins with a short inversion of the theme, first restating it in a lazy way. Then he articulates more aggressively, as though trying to establish consensus on the tempo. Blakey picks that up, and jabs out an even sharper response from the metal rim of the snare drum. That unleashes some mean Morgan double-time bebop; what began as a single-note bugle call becomes an intricate conversation. Each element of that conversation is notable for its clarity, and each new soloist contributes to it in a different way—check the unhurried, wonderfully lucid way Mobley carves up the opening Hipsippy Blues. The tune is one of three originals Mobley wrote for the date, and if it%27s familiar that%27s because it was included on a monumental live recording captured a few months later—At the Jazz Corner of the World, a fiery and complex document that%27s become part of the essential listening jazz canon. Just Coolin%27, which is apparently the only other recording of this short lived incarnation of the group, might be a step below that in terms of intensity. But only a step. © Tom Moon/Qobuz