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Felipe Salles, Zaccao Curtis, Avery Sharpe, Jonathan Butler: Tiyo's Songs Of Life
BySaxophonist Salles assembled a top-notch quartet for the project. The music is exhilarating, life affirming, joyousoddly for sounds created in Salah-El's situation. As "Tappin' Toe Tastey," the set's opener, spins to life, a first impression is that a retro mode is in play. Some of that may come from the cool cover photo of a brown-eyed handsome man a 1950 shot of Salah-El, who was known as David Riley Jones at the time with a grin on his face and a saxophone in his lap. It looks like a throwback poster for a jazz show in that early fifties time frame. And, in a way, the music is, in part, retroearly Blue Note Records hard bop style. But Salles and his quartet give things a modern sheen.
Salles' interpretations of Salah-El's music are reminiscent of pianist Bud Powell's sound, ebullient, luminescent with positivityodd in Powell's case, due to his mental problems and police run-ins, and odd too for Salah-El, given his circumstances. But there it issaxophonist Salles, bassist Avery Sharpe, drummer Jonathan Barber, and especially pianist Zaccai Curtis, whose style is loose-limbed and freewheeling, giving these these bop grooves a high polish, a start-to-finish bop cohesion and an engaging lean in the direction of modernity.
Track Listing
Toe Tappin' Tastey; Blues to Change Your ViewStage In A Cage; Steppin' Up; Live A Life of Love; My Love Is Deep Inside; 12 In 5; Life Long Friends; Blues For PabloBlues For Professor Zinn; I'm Reaching Out.
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Title: Tiyo's Songs Of Life | Year Released: 2022 | Record Label: Tapestry Records
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Instrument: Saxophone
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