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In New York
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In New York
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In New York
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For his second
album,
ventures into New York's
club, with a stellar piano trio (
,
) in tow. With this kind of firepower, the listener is usually guaranteed a satisfying level of cooking jazz, and that's certainly what we get here, though it seldom rises above that into a higher region.
's tune choices are mostly predictable standards, the one exception being his own cheeky title
a bop-style number where the bass and then the piano double the tune's lead sax statement. Throughout,
likes to fire away the eighth notes in that pungent,
-influenced tenor tone, with
often temporarily (and generously) dropping out so that the saxophonist can develop freer melodic patterns over the bass and drums.
-- taken virtually at
's late employer
's tempo -- does achieve a special ignition, driven hard by
, with some exploration of multiphonics by an inspired
. Otherwise, a mostly solid live session of post-bop. ~ Richard S. Ginell