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Instead
Ben Rosenblum
Label: One Trick Dog Records
Released: 2017
Duration: 56:44
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Tracks
Because It's Raining; Clarisse and Walter; And Then It's Gone; Saucer Eyes; Nica; First Song; Blur; Far Back; Azucar; Single Petal of a Rose; When Love Was You And Me.
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Ben Rosenblum
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Ben Rosenblum: piano; Curtis Lundy: bass; Billy Hart: drums.
Album Description
Instead: Rising star Ben Rosenblum's debut album is a culmination of many years of musical development as a jazz pianist, composer and bandleader. Featuring jazz legends Curtis Lundy on bass and Billy Hart on drums, Instead combines Ben's foundation in traditional hard bop with his modern melodic sensibility and inventive composition. Instead features six of Ben Rosenblum's original compositions, written at various stages in his musical career. These compositions, which have evolved and adapted as Ben's music has changed and grown, demonstrate Ben's versatility as a musician, and his appreciation for many different styles of jazz. The album's opener, “Because It's Raining,” is a sensitive and dynamic piece which features one of Ben's most memorable melodic motifs juxtaposed with Billy Hart's atmospheric accompaniment. The next track, “Clarisse and Walter,” shows Ben's inclination towards more traditional straight ahead jazz, and features a arrangement that hearkens back to the hard bop era. The album continues in similarly diverse fashion: “And Then It's Gone” is a beautiful bossa nova, “Blur” an up-tempo which hearkens back to the intensity of 1980s post-bop, “Far Back” a sensitive and melodic waltz and “Azucar” an energetic Afro-Cuban number. Instead also includes five songs written by other composers. These tracks include a haunting rendition of Charlie Haden's “First Song” and a bowed bass feature for Curtis Lundy on Duke Ellington's classic ballad, “Single Petal of a Rose.” Rounding out the album are three hard swinging medium swing songs written by famous jazz musicians: Sonny Clark's “Nica,” Randy Weston's “Saucer Eyes” and Thad Jones' “When Love Was You And Me.
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