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Keefe Jackson: Ready Everyday
ByThere is nary a single standard on Ready Everyday, giving evidence to the burgeoning Chicago jazz scene, a cutting edge zone of creativity and talent. Immediately out of the chute, Jackson proves to be a weaver of craggy melodic heads and sinewy solos. Josh Berman's cornet gives the decidedly post bop direction of the music a bit of an antique feel, a Janus-like effect of looking forward and backward at the same time.
The opening title tune has a basic post bop structure with a serpentine head and boisterous soloing, most particularly by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, who summons, on this and "Signs, a sound that I suspect Yo-Yo Ma could barely comprehend in any context. "Signs is a loosely conceived piece with a simple harmonic foundation that provides ample soloing room for Berman. Drummer Frank Rosaly is brilliantly bombastic and noisy, demonstrating the true freedom of jazz in rhythm.
Keefe Jackson's music exists on the evaporational interface of jazz where harmonic structure dissolves into a controlled freedom which, in turn, becomes individual musical molecules, free floating. This is music of freshness where not every note is perfect, but the improvisatory path to those notes is perfectand creation occurs spontaneously. This is the art and magic of the jazz musician.
Track Listing
Ready Everyday; Signs; Band Theme; Blackout; Saying Yes; Pax Urbanum; Course.
Personnel
Keefe Jackson
saxophoneKeefe Jackson: tenor saxophone; Josh Berman: cornet; Aram Shelton: alto saxophone; Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello; Anton Hatwich: bass; Frank Rosaly: drums.
Album information
Title: Ready Everyday | Year Released: 2007 | Record Label: Delmark Records
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About Keefe Jackson
Instrument: Saxophone
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