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专辑名称: For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver
创作艺人: [Christian McBride Big Band]
音乐流派: Jazz|爵士
专辑规格: 1碟10首
出品公司: Mack Avenue Records
发行时间: 2020/9/25
官方标价: £6.99 （会员免费下载）
域名语言: [en] （AI检测）
曲目介绍：
Night Train
Road Song
Up Jumped Spring
Milestones
The Very Thought of You
Down by the Riverside
I Want to Talk About You
Don Is
Medgar Evers' Blues
Pie Blues
详细介绍:
Christian McBride%27s latest big band session travels back to an incredible moment in 1966 when organist Jimmy Smith, guitarist Wes Montgomery and arranger Oliver Nelson gathered at Rudy Van Gelder%27s studio for a hard-swinging and ever-so-slightly unconventional big band summit meeting; all were operating at peak creativity. It was the first-ever collaboration between Smith and Montgomery, and the resulting albums (The Dynamic Duo and The Further Adventures Of…) were bursting with feats of highwire soloistic daredevilry. Nelson was the stealth MVP of the date. His arrangements—particularly Down By The Riverside and Milestones—discovered a lane equidistant between the hard swing of Basie and the floral voicings of Ellington, with intricate full-ensemble taunts giving way to plush pads designed to provoke the soloists.
McBride%27s update uses those and other original Nelson charts, which, after all these decades, exude a freshness that eludes many large-ensemble projects. And it relies on a similarly sparky showdown between strong minded soloists—the organist Joey DeFrancesco and guitarist Mark Whitfield. Both clearly know they%27re working in the towering shadows of giants; neither seems daunted by that as they explore the hairpin turns of the big-band Milestones or the easygoing saunter of Montgomery%27s Road Song. There are a few astonishing small-group moments, too, that offer a quick gauge on how far these soloists have evolved— check Whitfield on Road Song, DeFrancesco%27s gentle and dramatic reading of the ballad I Want To Talk About You and McBride%27s capricious twenty-fingered trip through Up Jumped Spring).
One elusive element McBride managed to transfer from the original source: The swing feel. From the opening solo, a twisty-road Whitfield foray on Night Train, it%27s clear that the soloists thrive in the McBride sweet spot—everything they do, all the flashy blowing, flows directly from the crisp, uncomplicated grooves established by the bassist and his rhythm section. Big band music would be easier to love if it all felt this good. © Tom Moon/Qobuz
