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Cyrus Chestnut: Genuine Chestnut

AAJ Italy Staff By AAJ Italy Staff

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Genuine Chestnut non rende giustizia alla ragguardevole cifra artistica di Cyrus Chestnut, pianista e compositore di talento. Alcuni suoi dischi per la Evidence e l’Atlantic ne avevano messo in luce l’intrigante progettualità musicale, volta ad integrare l’idioma delle origini del jazz all’interno di un fraseggio d’ascendenza post-bop.

Su questo disco tale peculiarità fortemente distintiva del pianista statunitense è stata edulcorata, per essere messa al servizio di un calderone in cui la matrice più autenticamente afroamericana viene sovrapposta a sonorità più facili e leggere.

Con la consueta maestria Chestnut si muove disinvoltamente tra armonie jazzistiche, afrocubane e R&B, senza riuscire a focalizzare il percorso proposto in un progetto compiuto. Tra alti e bassi, le undici tracce del disco lasciano intravedere alcuni momenti interessanti, in cui talora riaffiora la freschezza di idee e di fraseggio delle incisioni migliori. È il caso ad esempio della rivisitazione in solitudine di un classico (“Lord, I Give Myself To You”) del repertorio gospel afromericano, rivisitato con una superba pratica esecutiva, inarrivabile per molti pianisti della sua generazione.

Pur risultando più convenzionali, i brani interpretati insieme al chitarrista Russell Malone costituiranno paradossalmente le carte vincenti di questo CDinciso splendidamente, grazie ad una tecnica di registrazione all’avanguardia.


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Track Listing

The Brown Soldier; El Numero Tres; If; Ellen's Song; Mason Dixon Line; Baby Girl's Strut; The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face; Eyes on the Prize; Through the Valley; I'm Walkin'; Lord I Give Myself to You.

Personnel

Cyrus Chestnut: piano; Michael Hawkins: bass; Neal Smith: drums; Steve Kroon: percussion; Russell Malone: guitar.

Album information

Title: Genuine Chestnut | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Telarc Records


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