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Steve Davis: Eloquence

AAJ Italy Staff By AAJ Italy Staff

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La presenza nei crediti del pianista Hank Jones, classe 1918, rende Eloquence un interessante documento sonoro ancor prima di essere ascoltato. E la performance del leggendario pianista si rivela, anche dopo aver pigiato il tasto "play," una delle tante cose buone contenute in questi 70 minuti di musica ad alto tasso di qualità.

Ma andiamo con ordine. Registrato in un paio di session nell'ottobre 2007 e mixato quasi due anni dopo, Eloquence prende vita dalle idee del trombonista/compositore/insegnante Steve Davis che rivisita, con rispetto misto ad entusiasmo, una serie di brani storici. Davis guida con destrezza un quartetto completato dalla ritmica composta da Nat Reeves al basso (John Lee in tre brani) e Joe Farnsworth dietro ai tamburi. Setting classico dove si inseriscono, con successo, altri due interpreti, Roy Hargrove alla tromba e il vibrafonista Steve Nelson, che impreziosiscono la tessitura sonora dell'incisione con interventi calibrati e di ottima fattura.

L'album scorre via alternando temi fast e ballad di grande intensità ("My Ship"); dalla parkeriana "Yardbird Suite" a "Lament," omaggio dovuto al maestro J.J. Johnson, è decisamente un bel sentire, tra tradizione e attualità jazzistica, ottimo sia per rallegrare un pomeriggio ombroso che per sfumare una serata ben riuscita.


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Track Listing

1. Yardbird Suite (3:57); 2. How Deep is the Ocean (7:44); 3. Minor Contention (4.37); 4. T.H.E. Blues (5:60); 5. It Could Happen to You (5:54); 6. My Ship (6:16); 7. Have You Met Miss Jones (6:43); 8. Django (6:55); 9. Road Song (6:02); 10. Peedlum (5:40); 11. Lament (4:46); 12. When the Saints Go Marching In (4:47).

Personnel

Steve Davis
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Steve Davis: trombone; Hank Jones: piano; Nat Reeves: contrabbasso; Joe Farnsworth: batteria. Ospiti: Roy Hargrove: trombone; Steve Nelson: vibrafono; John Lee: chitarra basso acustica.

Album information

Title: Eloquence | Year Released: 2009 | Record Label: Portraits in Jazz


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