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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 ...
Thirteen Ways (Hersch - Moore - Hemingway): Focus
by Glenn Astarita
Music-Magic is likely to occur when you unite woodwind specialist Michael Moore with pianist Fred Hersch and the very “musical” drummer/composer Gerry Hemingway for a recording session! Each one of these fine modernists are equally at home whether performing free-improv, chamber, mainstream or music so indefinable that mere words or classifications could be rendered banal or ...
Thirteen Ways: Focus
by Glenn Astarita
Music-Magic is likely to occur when you unite woodwind specialist Michael Moore with pianist Fred Hersch and the very “musical” drummer/composer Gerry Hemingway for a recording session! Each one of these fine modernists are equally at home whether performing free-improv, chamber, mainstream or music so indefinable that mere words or classifications could be rendered banal or ...
