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Will Sellenraad: Balance
Nove le tracce illuminate dalle linee fluide e lineari del leader, ottimo solista ma anche dispensatore di sottili passaggi contrappuntastici nell'accompagnare gli interventi di Burton, de facto co-leader aggiunto dell'incisione.
Ma notevole è l'apporto anche compositivo degli altri due musicisti del quartetto, Lewis e Kitagawa, che firmano i brani più riusciti della scaletta. Un repertorio post bop efficacissimo, su cui piroettano sax e chitarra con un fraseggio disinibito, graffiante e ritmicamente sciolto.
Raffinata è la ricerca armonica nella sinuosa ballad "It's Been a Long Time," mentre un respiro più languido informa la deliziosa bossa "Nye". Due composizioni ed interpretazioni simbolo dell'ottima musica prodotta da questo eccellente quartetto, destinato a fare buone cose.
Track Listing
Balance; Double Down; Tell Me Why; Stubbs; Blewis; Nye; Prayer; It's Been A Long Time; Left (Shout Chorus).
Personnel
Will Sellenraad
guitarWill Sellenraad: guitar; Abraham Burton: tenor sax, soprano sax (7); Kiyoshi Kitagawa: acoustic bass; Victor Lewis: drums.
Album information
Title: Balance | Year Released: 2009 | Record Label: Beezwax Records
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