Leírás
Jazz, Jazz Duo, New York Jazz, CD kiadvány, 2024-es album.
Papírtokos, nyitható borítóval, CD kiadvány, 2024-es album.
Comes in gatefold card case.
While solo and duo recordings do not come in all sizes, they indeed have various shapes. Slam Stewart and Don Byas, as the only two musicians to make a nearly snowed-out 1945 Town Hall gig, formed an impromptu, but unquestionably musically satisfying duo (remembered largely for their lickety-split version of “I Got Rhythm”). Jim Hall and Bill Evans are dependably sublime on Undercurrent. Turning to solo work, Evans waxed Alone as a solo pianist, creatively entering a relatively crowded recorded space that also includes contributions from Thelonious Monk (Solo Monk, Alone in San Francisco), Art Tatum’s Piano Starts Here, and Ray Bryant’s Alone With the Blues, not to mention Concord’s voluminous Maybeck Recital Hall series.
Solo jazz saxophone recordings, on the other hand, are few and far between, making Eric Alexander’s solo contributions to the recording here all the more unique and important. And although the living master Sonny Rollins recorded in this format (The Solo Concert), contributions here seem most often to coalesce around the avant-garde (Anthony Braxton’s For Alto and Roscoe Mitchell’s Solo Saxophone Concerts).
Is it the transparency of the solo and duo context that so intrigues and attracts? The offer to jazz fans of a heretofore clarity of insight and perspective into the most intimate of musical gestures traditionally obfuscated in larger aggregations. Well, the answer here is a definitive yes. And it is for these reasons, and many more that Together stands as both a unique and a fine new contribution to the already impressive discographies of LeDonne and Alexander.
Felállás:
Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
Mike LeDonne – piano
Felvételek:
1.For Mabes 05:35
2.Autumn In New York
3.Round Midnight
4.I’m In The Mood For Love
5.Lost But Not Forgotten
6.Mutation
7.Mary
8.The Nearness Of You
9.Two In One
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