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Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy
by AAJ Staff
While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare.
On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader and as rhythmic stylist. While it's impossible to pin him down, the real high notes of the disc are his intermittent tenor playing in ...
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by AAJ Staff
While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare.
On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader and as rhythmic stylist. While it's impossible to pin him down, the real high notes of the disc are his intermittent tenor playing in ...
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by James Nichols
Joe Lovano’s most recent release finds the talented saxophonist stretching out in four different trio combinations. Just as Sonny Rollins discovered in his immortal piano-less Village Vanguard performances, a trio allows more freedom than the conventional saxophone settings of a quartet or quintet. The music breathes easily, flirting with both silence and sound. The horns stroll without the harmonic fetters of a traditional rhythm section. This is lovely music.
Highlights of the album include the cerebral interplay between Joe Lovano ...
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by AAJ Staff
While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare.
On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader and as rhythmic stylist. While it's impossible to pin him down, the real high notes of the disc are his intermittent tenor playing in ...
Continue ReadingJoe Lovano: Flights Of Fancy: Trio Fascination, Edition 2
by AAJ Staff
Will Joe Lovano never cease to amaze?“Flights Of Fancy" being a literary term for the human capacity for “imagination," Lovano's new trio CD is aptly named.Following up on his 1998 trio CD with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones, “Trio Fascination, Edition 1," Lovano imaginatively transforms even the expectations for a reed-led trio by recording four trio configurations over the compressed time of two days. Lovano switches to drums from sax on a few of the tracks ...
Continue ReadingJoe Lovano: Flights Of Fancy: Trio Fascination, Edition Two
by Jim Santella
With four decidedly different trios, Joe Lovano pushes the mainstream jazz envelope along its meandering course. The tenor saxophonist’s brusque tone stands apart as distinctively as his passion for molding the art form. This is a blue-collar effort from a creative, dues-paying, veteran artist.
Consider the nonstandard combinations the leader employs here. Lovano joins Toots Thielemans and Kenny Werner for four pieces. He teams with Billy Drewes and Joey Baron for three. Three more tracks feature Mark Dresser and Dave ...
Continue ReadingJim Hall/Joe Lovano: Grand Slam
by Craig Jolley
Unlike many all-star groups Grand Slam succeeds--they are more than just a jam band. They play a repertoire (Hall and Lovano tunes) suited to this band. They sound rehearsed, and they interact with each other. There is no sense of “I'll coast while you do your thing, and you get of my way when I'm up."
Sonically Grand Slam recalls the early 60's Sonny Rollins band ( The Bridge ) in which Hall also played, but this band plays more ...
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