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Various Artists: Blue Note Re:imagined II
ByFrom a jazz perspective, there are four tracks of interest, one each from trumpeter Yazz Ahmed, tenor saxophonist Binker Golding, bassist Daniel Casimir and tuba player Theon Cross. Each of these leaders keeps within the series brief to chill out, but each of them also presents cerebrally engaging and emotionally layered music, with Golding and Cross going far enough off message to frighten the horses, nervous ones anyway. Cross's at times ferocious tuba and drums reinvention of Thelonious Monk's "Epistrophy" gets the cigar by a short neck. It would be fun to be a fly on the heavenly wall the first time Monk hears Cross's version. The smart money says he will love it madly. But we cannot know for sure. Golding's reading of Joe Lovano's "Forth Worth," featuring the spectacularly gifted pianist Sarah Tandy, is almost as memorable.
Blue Note Re:imagined II obliges one reluctantly to concede that there might, just might, be a reason to use such barbarisms as Spotify after all (but let us not be hasty about that).
Track Listing
Yazz Ahmed: It; Conor Albert: You Make Me Feel So Good; Parthenope: Don’t Know Why; Swindle: Miss Kane; Nubiyan Twist: Through The Noise (Chant No.2); Ego Ella May: The Morning Side Of Love; Oscar Jerome & Oscar #Worldpeace: (Why You So) Green With Envy; Daniel Casimir ft. Ria Moran: Lost; Theon Cross: Epistrophy; Maya Delilah: Harvest Moon; Kay Young: Feel Like Making Love; Venna & Marco Bernardis: Where Are We Going; Reuben James: Infant Eyes; Binker Golding: Fort Worth; Cherise: Sunrise; Franc Moody: Cristo Redentor.
Album information
Title: Blue Note Re:imagined II | Year Released: 2022 | Record Label: Blue Note Records