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George Freeman/Chico Freeman: All In The Family
ByFully-improvised vignettes, full band numbers, and duo encounters quickly come and go on this twenty-two track album. There's a beautiful ballad to behold ("My Scenery"), a Latin lovely to admire ("Latina Bonita"), a number that continually morphs into new shapes and feels ("Inner Orchestrations"), some straight-up post-bop swing ("Chico"), a haunting take on a classic ("Angel Eyes"), a sunny groove tune ("Marko"), and more. Miniaturesbite-sized percussion morsels, a series of interludes, the album-ending remarks recorded live at the Englewood Jazz Festivalaccount for about half of the tracks, but they don't hamper the flow of the album. Quite the opposite, in fact, as they tend to keep ears guessing and keep things interesting.
Given the nature of the project, it should come as no shock that the personnel list would contain the names of more notable Chicagoans capable of giving a three-hundred-and-sixty degree view of the city's musical landscape: inside-outside players like drummer Hamid Drake and bassist Harrison Bankhead, longtime Von Freeman guitarist Mike Allemana, and Malachi Thompson-connected pianist Kirk Brown, along with Swiss-born percussionist Reto Weber, all ably assist in spreading the wide-ranging gospel of that fair city and saluting the Freeman family legacy.
Track Listing
Dark Blue; Interlude V-2; Latina Bonita; Interlude V-6; My Scenery; Interlude V-9; Five Days in May; Vonski; Interlude V-8; Inner Orchestrations; ercussion Song Two; Chico; nterlude V-5; What's in Between; Essence of Silence; Interlude V-4; A Distinction Without a Difference; Interlude V-10; Angel Eyes; Percussion Song One; Marko; Chico & George Introductions.
Personnel
Chico Freeman
saxophoneGeorge Freeman - Guitar
guitarAlbum information
Title: All In The Family | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Southport Records
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About Chico Freeman
Instrument: Saxophone
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