04-04-2019 JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1995-2006

Dave Douglas

04-04-2019 JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1995-2006 # Dave Douglas, Diana Krall, Zachary Breaux, Jane Bunnett and The Spirits of Havana, Paul Motian & the Electric Bebop Band, Matthew Shipp Quartet, Brad Mehldau, Howard Alden, Jeremy Pelt, Donny McCaslin, Jenny Scheinman, Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood

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1995-2006

Cutting-edge trumpeter who seems equally at home in the avant garde jazz world and the pop milieu. Dave Douglas arguably became the most original trumpeter/composer of his generation. Douglas' stylistic range is broad yet unaffected; his music is not a pastiche, but rather a personal aesthetic that reflects a wide variety of interests. He explicitly cites such diverse influences as Igor Stravinsky, Stevie Wonder, and John Coltrane. As a composer, Douglas adapts and synthesizes unusual forms and creates his own out of disparate elements. As a trumpeter, he possesses a comprehensive jazz technique; certainly one hears the ghost of Lester Bowie in Douglas' expressive manipulations of timbre and pitch, but more pronounced is the integration of distinctive compositional and improvisational conceptions that ultimately defines his work.
Dave Douglas
Mirrors (Dave Douglas) 3:03
Going, Going (Dave Douglas) 5:47
Who Knows? (Thelonious Monk)
from Five 1995
Trumpeter Dave Douglas' unusual string group (which also includes violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Erik Friedlander, bassist Drew Gross and drummer Michael Sarin) is reminiscent in some ways of Ornette Coleman's free-jazz quartet despite not playing any of Ornette's originals and having a very different instrumentation. All of the musicians function as equals, the interaction is often intuitive, and the improvising on eight Douglas originals (including tunes dedicated to Steve Lacy, Wayne Shorter, Mark Dresser, Woody Shaw, John Cage and John Zorn), Thelonious Monk's "Who Knows," and Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "The Inflated Tear" is on a high level. Well worth exploring.

Contemporary jazz singer and pianist who took the pop world by storm in the 1990s, often echoing early swinging simplicity in her work. At the outset of her career in the 1990s, Diana Krall appeared to be a throwback to a different, classier era -- specifically, the mid-20th century, when the Great American Songbook experienced a revival in the hands of singers such as Nat King Cole. Krall's 1996 breakthrough, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio, deliberately paid tribute to this period, but Krall didn't focus merely on singing the song in an old-fashioned way: as the subtitle of All for You suggested, Krall placed equal emphasis on the piano playing...
Diana Krall 
I'm an Errand Girl for Rhythm (Nat King Cole) 2:56
You Call It Madness (Russ Columbo / Con Conrad / Gladys Dubois / Paul Gregory) 4:36
Hit That Jive Jack (John Alston / Alex Alstone / Skeets Tolbert) 4:16
from All For You (A Dedication To The Nat King Cole Trio) 1996
Pianist/vocalist Diana Krall pays tribute to the Nat King Cole Trio on her Impulse! set. In general, the medium and up-tempo tunes work best, particularly such hot ditties as "I'm an Errand Girl for Rhythm," "Frim Fram Sauce," and "Hit That Jive Jack." Krall does not attempt to directly copy Cole much (either pianistically or vocally), although his influence is obviously felt on some of the songs. The slow ballads are actually as reminiscent of Shirley Horn as Cole, particularly the somber "I'm Through With Love" and "If I Had You." Guitarist Russell Malone gets some solo space on many of the songs and joins in on the group vocal of "Hit That Jive Jack," although it is surprising that he had no other opportunities to interact vocally with Krall; a duet could have been delightful. Bassist Paul Keller is fine in support, pianist Benny Green backs Krall's vocal on "If I Had You," and percussionist Steve Kroon is added on one song. Overall, this is a tasteful effort that succeeds.

Influenced by George Benson and Wes Montgomery, Zachary Breaux was a flexible guitarist who could handle soul-jazz, post-bop, and hard bop as well as more commercial pop-jazz and NAC music.
Zachary Breaux 
Breakfast at the Epiphany (Zachary Breaux) 0:16
Cafe Reggio (Isaac Hayes) 6:06
The Thrill Is Gone (Arthur Benson / Dale Pettite) 5:10
All Blues (Miles Davis) 6:33
from Uptown Groove 1997
Guitarist Zachary Breaux, who tragically died just a few months after recording this CD (his debut), was a potentially great guitarist with a style coming from George Benson. In fact, his solos are generally more memorable than the purposely commercial material on this set, which largely consists of melodic, jazzy funk jams, usually with rather basic electronic rhythms... Among the other guest musicians are flutist Hubert Laws, bassist Brian Bromberg and pianist Renee Rosnes.