Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Bruce Jackson: Don't Sleep On Your Dreams
Bruce Jackson: Don't Sleep On Your Dreams
Jackson's approach is to maintain the songs' original texture while providing just enough variations to give them new angles. Wayne Shorter's "Footprints, for example, is played at a slightly slower tempo, which allows the trio to linger at the song's subtle edges. When Jackson, pianist Bob Himmelberger and bassist Nicolas Bayak performed this song live, their sound and cohesion recalled Coltrane's rhythm section. Himmelberger is a gifted and daring pianist who can play with arresting dexterity ("Rhythm-A-Ning ) or imbue the simplest chords with the deepest emotion ("Iris / Pee Wee ). The trio's rendition of the Weill/Gershwin chestnut "My Ship is as lovely a ballad as can be heard anywhere; Jackson's brushstrokes and Bayak's plucking give Himmelberger a firm foundation to tell the story.
Sometimes one doesn't want jazz that tries too hard to be innovative or to make a point. Something as elemental as a rhythm section will suffice. With a fine selection of songs and some kick-ass players to execute them, Don't Sleep on Your Dreams is a welcome emergence from the shadows.
Track Listing
Footprints; Firewater; Rhythm-A-Ning; Iris/Pee Wee; Paris Eyes; Never Let Me Go; Picadilly Lilly; My Ship.
Personnel
Bruce Jackson
drumsBob Himmelberger: piano; Nicolas Bayak: bass; Bruce Jackson: drums.
Album information
Title: Don't Sleep on Your Dreams | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Southpaw Productions
< Previous
Happy New Ears!
Comments
Tags
Bruce Jackson
CD/LP/Track Review
Terrell Kent Holmes
Kari-On Productions
Southpaw Productions
United States
New York
New York City
Don't Sleep on Your Dreams