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Marc Cary: Focus
by John Kelman
Some artists catch an early break. Others struggle to get onto the public's radar, despite great talent and stylistic range. It's curious that keyboardist Marc Cary hasn't caught on. His work with artists including trumpeter Roy Hargrove, vibraphonist Stefon Harris and singer Abbey Lincoln suggests that he's well-respected by his peers and considered capable of just ...
Focus
Label: Emanon Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Boperation; The Tadd Walk; Focus; Half Nelson / Lady Bird; If You Could See Me Now; Mating Call; Double Talk; A Bebop Carol; The Scene Is Clean; Our Delight (76:27).
Donald Walden and the Detroit Jazz Orchestra: Focus
by Jack Bowers
Before appraising the music on saxophonist Donald Walden's new album, Focus, we should first consider the “truth in advertising" issue. Webster's defines an orchestra as “a group of instrumentalists including especially string players [emphasis mine] organized to perform ensemble music." Walden's “orchestra" has no strings attached, and in fact is actually an octet. That's correct, a ...
Arthur Blythe: Focus
by Todd S. Jenkins
After what many considered a dry period in the early 1990s, Arthur Blythe gently began his return to alto prominence through exotic collaborations with cellist David Eyges and mallets player Gust William Tsilis. Focus presents one of his most unusual ensembles since the early '80s tuba/cello/guitar quintet. The sparse, foreign sound of this new quartet takes ...
Focus
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Opus (Blythe) - 6:52
2. Children's Song AKA That Old Man (Monk) - 3:18
3. C.C. Rider - 4:58
4. Once Again (Blythe) - 2:53
5. My Son Ra (Blythe) - 8:09
6. Hip Toe (Blythe) - 6:20
7. Night Song (Blythe/Tsilis) - 6:50
8. Bubbles (Blythe) - 3:16
9. Stuffy Turkey (Monk) - 5:00
10. Night Creeper (Blythe) - 5:19
11. In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington) - 7:58
12. Focus (Blythe) - 1:16
Arthur Blythe: Focus
by Jon Wagner
Arthur Blythe has been busy. He has a new recording, and last month completed a stint with his quartet at the Jazz Standard. Blythe is living in his hometown San Diego again, so NYC jazz fans jumped at the rare opportunity to see him play live. The band - Blythe on alto, John Hicks on piano, ...
Focus
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Focus; Janeology; Out Someplace (Blues For Matthew Shepard); Autumn Eves; En Tee; Tango Bittersweet; Bug
Music; Fim De Inverno; Identity; One Note To My Wife; Habanera.
Thirteen Ways: Focus
by AAJ Staff
Focus, the second record by the trio of Fred Hersch, Michael Moore, and Gerry Hemingway, continues with the same emphasis on intimacy and subtlety found on their self-titled debut. To quote from the fifth verse of the Wallace Stevens poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird": I do not know which to prefer ...
Thirteen Ways: Focus
by Mark Corroto
For an artist the process of abstracting an idea reveals the genius of his/her work. Picasso would begin with the reality of say, a bull. He would draw it many ways, each time paring away the unnecessary elements until he had captured the essence of the bull. He said this simplifying leaves merely the idea of ...
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