Here is a band who are so proficient, so in sync with one another, that every note is perfect and every transition clean and premeditated, yet the sound created is spontaneous and alive.
Jazz may be the genre that I was most excited for in this whole process. It is a sound I have always loved, but never studied or especially understood.
Having Moon point me in the direction of what he sees as the pinnacle of the form has been an education after just 2 very different recordings, and this is before we reach any of the giants whose names I already know. Owned before blogging? Was one of the reasons I wanted to undertake this ludicrous task — to give music a more than merely superficial listen.
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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Blog via Email Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Azule Serape Victor Feldman 2. Exodus Vic Stanley 3. Like their first LP the phenomenally widely-enjoyed Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco , this one was taken down while the band was in the process of acting upon and re-acting to a richly enthusiastic and more than room-filling night club audience.
The setting is the most celebrated of southern California jazz spots, The Lighthouse, located in a suburb of Los Angeles The occasion was a one-day, Sunday afternoon and night stand by the Adderley group, the culmination of a month-long triumphal stay in and around L.
The Lighthouse itself is something of a phenomenon among jazz clubs not only because it has 'stayed in business for a dozen years but even more because it has remained a relaxed low-pressure and resolutely popularly-priced club--and therefore, from a musician's point of view invariably a good place to play in and a magnet for good listening audiences.
It has been famous for more than a decade as a focal point for the West Coast brand of jazz ; Cannonball's quintet is one of the few Eastern groups to have played there. They became the first non-cool group to record there largely because of the nature of the audience response a month earlier when the quintet had opened their Los Angeles stay in front of a consistently overflow Lighthouse crowd. The very next day Cannonball called New York to report enthusiastically that a the band, to which pianist Vic Feldman had just been added, would decidedly be fully ready and eager to record before leaving California, and b these stimulatingly appreciative fans were by all means the people to do it with.
There is really nothing surprising in the Californians' reaction to the group, for it has become quite clear that this quintet is just about universally recognized as one of the most invigorating ingredients ever added to the unique musical brew we call jazz. Organized in the Fall of , they have enjoyed from the start an overwhelmingly widespread and passionate public acceptance.
Their previously-mentioned first album recorded almost exactly a year before this one, during their first sizeable engagement, which was at one of northern California's top clubs, The Jazz Workshop was an instantaneous hit. It was followed by a steady flow of gratifyingly crowded appearances at clubs, concerts and festivals. Almost overnight, they leaped from nowhere to a spot somewhere near the top of the heap. There is actually nothing particularly mysterious about this jet-fast ride to fame.
This is a group made up of two horns of immense jazz stature, buoyed up by a most enviable rhythm section. It is amazingly close-knit, both musically and personally. Julian and Nat are not only brothers but even more importantly to repeat a phrase I have used before but like too well not to stick with they are soul-brothers.
Sam Jones has known and valued the Adderley's since Florida boyhood days ; Lou Hayes, a young but musically mature powerhouse, has meshed completely with the group from the first. As for the newcomer, Victor Feldman, his performance here tells far more clearly than words could just how exciting and funky a musician this young Englishman is and just how deeply his presence is welcomed by the others.
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