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Tom Harrell: Prana Dance
by John Kelman
Despite fighting health issues that would keep most people down and out, Tom Harrell has managed to create a remarkably consistent discography as a leader, in addition to a sizable collection of sessions since first emerging in the early '70s. Still, the trumpeter seems especially invigorated since signing with HighNote for Light On (2007). A true leader of the modern mainstream who works squarely in the tradition while gently pushing the envelope, Harrell's outstanding writing, a tone that could melt ...
Continue ReadingHarrell - Moroni - Dulbecco - Fioravanti - Zirilli - Bagnoli: The Cube
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per la gioia di chi si attende dalla musica emozioni profonde, è appena uscito un nuovo CD con Tom Harrell. È il terzo in un anno molto fecondo per il geniale trombettista statunitense: avis rara, poiché capace come pochi altri oggi di trasformare in poesia le note del pentagramma. È il suo un disco di mainstream contemporaneo caratterizzato da un forte potere suggestivo, che trascende le codificate strutture formali di riferimento. Con in più l’utilizzo di due batterie per introdurre ...
Continue ReadingTom Harrell - Dado Moroni: Humanity
by AAJ Italy Staff
Humanity è un disco formidabile, destinato a lasciare una traccia significativa nella discografia jazzistica del 2007. Ne è protagonista un duo stupefacente, che ci regala un’ora di musica intensa, ricca di lirismo e pathos. Le linee melodiche lunghe e trasognate della tromba si incontrano a meraviglia con il pianismo muscolare e pirotecnico di Moroni, per un incontro condotto mirabilmente sul piano della pura poesia. Il mondo degli standard è il punto di partenza privilegiato di questa empatica collaborazione, che si ...
Continue ReadingTom Harrell: Light On
by Laurel Gross
Tom Harrell is like that rare good friend who is exempt from the usual “three-day rule for house guests--after which even the best of buds can loose their bloom. If he has nothing to say, he doesn't fill your ears with empty phrases. And if he knows he can't be fully present on a visit with you, he won't be there at all. Which is exactly the way it's been with the trumpeter, who hasn't made a recording as a ...
Continue ReadingTom Harrell: Light On
by Ken Kase
As the business of music makes the wobbly transition from unified collections of songs to individual tracks as the primary currency of recorded music, jazz continues to embrace the increasingly antiquated format of the album to great effect. Such is the case with trumpeter Tom Harrell's Light On, a bonafide collection of compositions and performances that are conspicuously unified, and an open challenge to the notion of “album as anachronism" in the digital age. This collection of songs was meant ...
Continue ReadingTom Harrell: Sail Away
by Russell Moon
Recorded over two days in March of 1989, Sail Away is surely one of the youngest albums ever to be re-released as an OJC, and presumably the first from the CD era. Two songs from the sessions not on the original CD are included here, bringing the total time to a very generous 79 minutes. Although Tom Harrell composed every tune, the two days' sessions were not alike, and thus this disc has a “two LPs on one CD" quality. ...
Continue ReadingA Fireside Chat with Tom Harrell
by AAJ Staff
Tom Harrell is a blessing. Warmth and kindness oozes from his horn playing and from his compositions. His latest for RCA Victor, Time's Mirror, is a big band recording, quite a departure for the trumpeter. I caught up with Harrell in the midst of a nationwide tour to promote his new album. It is an intimate portrait of a “genius" as Horace Silver put it, unedited and in his own words. All About Jazz: Let's start from the ...
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