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Old 04-14-2021, 03:44 PM
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Kenny Barron Trio - Book of Intuition
Qobuz 24/96




My score: 4 ½ stars for the music, but only 3 ½ for the sound.
And that's a pity.

He has played brilliantly alongside double bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake for quite a few years, but Kenny Barron had not yet released an album with this addictive rhythmic approach that suits him so well. The result jumps out at the listener immediately with the magnificent Book Of Intuition released on Impulse!. Elegant, intelligent, refined and with a more than perfect swing, this record is an ambassador for the famous motto: less is more. Not a note overboard, No technical showboating. Each theme (all bearing Barron's signature except for two covers Thelonious Monk, Shuffle Boil and Light Blue, and one by Charlie Haden, Nightfall) is discussed here with formidable class. Kenny Barron is one of the last giants of the eternal and timeless piano, and one that does not seek to revolutionize the genre nor the instrument but rather to find the just the right tone. A project that succeeds thanks to the precious involvement of Kitagawa and Blake. The three musicians reach a sort of aesthetic grace together here. A great album to listen again and again.© MZ/Qobuz, Translation/BM

Worth hearing this again!
Even if the sound is not perfect.
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Old 04-14-2021, 04:08 PM
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Ralph Alessi
Jason Moran
Drew Gress
Nasheet Waits
- Baida
Qobuz 24/88.2

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Old 04-14-2021, 04:36 PM
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So much to catch up!

I'll start by saying... Bart, congratulations on the acquisition of the Tambaqui
Coltrane's Olé and Monk's Dream... a good place to start
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Old 04-14-2021, 04:45 PM
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So much to catch up!

I'll start by saying... Bart, congratulations on the acquisition of the Tambaqui

Merci Joel!
I've put myself into troubles, by asking to demo the Tambaqui at home.
The dealer is an intelligent man. He's sold 3 of them in a week, all home demos.

I'll put my impressions in a separate thread when I find some time.

PS. Happy to see you back. Missed you!
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2 of my desert island albums.
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Avishai Cohen
Yonathan Avishai
- Playing The Room
Qobuz 24/96




Nice!!

Piano and trumpet duets are relatively rare. In 1928, while recording Weather Bird, Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines kicked things off, followed much later by Chet Baker and Paul Bley (with Diane in 1985), Tom Harrell and Jacky Terrasson (Moon and Sand in 1991), Martial Solal and Eric le Lann (Portrait in Black and White in 2000), Martial Solal and Dave Douglas (Rue de Seine in 2006), Uri Caine and Paolo Fresu (Things in 2006), Enrico Rava and Stefano Bollani (Rava Plays Rava in 1999 and The Third Man in 2007), Oscar Peterson on five albums (with Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry, Jon Faddis and Harry “Sweets” Edison), Clark Terry’s One On One in 2000 (with fourteen different pianists!) and, most recently, Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith (A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke in 2016)... Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai have known each other since their teens in Tel Aviv. The pianist even featured on the trumpeter’s two ECM albums, Into the Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver. Their innate complicity allows them to improvise freely, playfully, and intensely on Playing the Room, their first work as a duo. As the title suggests, the two Israelis also incorporate the room – in this case the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI studio in Lugano – into their sound and they make full use of its resonant acoustics. They each sign a theme in turn before embarking on an eclectic repertoire by John Coltrane (Cresent), Duke Ellington (Azalea), Abdullah Ibrahim (Kofifi Blue), Ornette Coleman (Dee Dee), Milt Jackson (Ralph’s New Blues), Alexander Argov (Shir Eres) and Stevie Wonder (Sir Duke). And they transform this heterogeneous programme into utterly moving chamber jazz. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz

They were playing a track on our classical (+jazz) radio station this morning.
It left me wanting more.
This is a great album!
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Keith Jarrett : Eyes of the Heart
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Wes Montgomery, "Incredible Jazz Guitar". 3-CD set. Are so good am going to have to find them on vinyl.

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Wes Montgomery, "Incredible Jazz Guitar". 3-CD set. Are so good am going to have to find them on vinyl.


Glenn, some of my favourites also.
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Avishai Cohen - Two Roses
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Qobuz 24/96




Jazz and strings...
Besides Ella who gets away with almost everything, and sometimes 'Ol Blue Eyes, seldom a good marriage.
It's isn't here either.
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