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Both Sides of Midnight

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Both Sides of Midnight
Both Sides of Midnight

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Both Sides of Midnight

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's was recorded in the summer of 1967, but released in 1988, with the title taking branding advantage of 's role in the full-length feature film . A group of American expatriates teamed with 21-year-old bass prodigy yields almost an hour of excellent music from a club date at the venerable in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sowing the seeds of the sound of and using part of 's repertoire, makes these musical statements all his own with a personalized voice free of imitation, but full of melodic hooks and ladders reaching skyward in distinguished, ad hoc fashion. Pianist and drummer stay very close to 's muse during this short stack of standards, stretching the harmonic parameters of these well-known tunes in a delightful program of professionally rendered modern mainstream jazz. A twelve-and-a-half minute calypso-tinged version of proves the band warms up very quickly, as 's bouncy rhythm excites 's vocal-like, linear lines with slight swinging inserts. The most amazing track is the near-16-minute, fast romp 12-bar blues take of as an inexhaustible plays what was then called a whopping "three foot long," 28 chorus solo without quoting a single standard, going on and on in Zen fashion before hits up 20 choruses of his own. The signature tune is played flawlessly with nary a single cliche, as negotiates the tricky melody with his legendary cool ease and near nonchalance. and together are best when wearing their hearts on their sleeves during the quiet tunes using emotional constraint and control with throaty, pillow talk tones. A well-recorded live date, one of many did at the , this easily ranks as one of 's best, just shy of his magnum opus . ~ Michael G. Nastos

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