I'm Confessin '

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I'm Confessin '
Steve Grossman's studio album

Publication
(s)

2007

Label (s) Dreyfus Jazz

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

7th

running time

50:12

occupation

production

Francis Dreyfus

Studio (s)

Studio Ferber, Paris

chronology
Johnny Griffin & Steve Grossman Quintet
(2001) 		I'm Confessin ' Homecoming
(2011)
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I'm Confessin ' is a jazz album by the Steve Grossman Quintet with Harold Land . The recordings, made from June 29 to July 2, 1992 in Studio Ferber, Paris, were released on April 24, 2007 on Dreyfus Jazz .

background

In the summer of 1992 in Paris the tenor saxophonist Steve Grossman organized a recording session with his tenor colleague Harold Land at the "height of his art". The rhythm section was made up of Jimmy Cobb on drums, pianist Fred Henke and bassist Reggie Johnson . The recordings did not appear until 2007 under the title I'm Confessin ' .

Track list

  • Steve Grossman Quintet Featuring Harold Land: I'm Confessin '(Dreyfus Jazz FDM 4605036902 2)
  1. Vierd Blues ( Miles Davis ) 6:25
  2. Circus ( Louis Alter , Sidney Keith Russell ) 7:43
  3. (I'm) Confessin '(That I Love You) ( Al J. Neiburg , Donald Dougherty , Ellis Reynolds ) 5:47
  4. Sandrow (Steve Grossman) 6:22
  5. Born to Be Blue ( Melvin H. Torme , Robert Wells) 8:01
  6. Let's Cool One ( Thelonious Monk ) 8:48
  7. San Fransisco Holiday (Thelonious Monk) 7:05

reception

Matt Collar gave the album 3½ stars in Allmusic and wrote that I'm Confessin ' is an extremely intellectual role in which the talent of the two main protagonists for inventive, edgy and energetic improvisations is optimally used. Both would take the chance to shine individually.

Mike Joyce wrote in JazzTimes that Miles Davis's song "Vierd Blues" set the tone; while Grossman played with a robust sound, Harold Land preferred a lighter touch and a brighter tone. This contrast is maintained in all pieces with tenor tandem, including the two Monk melodies at the end of the album, "Let's Cool One", which casually lives up to its title and features bassist Reggie Johnson, and "San Francisco Holiday", one Reminder of Land's work with the composer and a lively coda at the end. Even for fans of the two woodwinds, the album is not indispensable, sums up Joyce, but it is sufficient evidence of similarities, chemistry and camaraderie, which is entertainment enough.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dreyfus catalog
  2. ↑ Review of Matt Collar's album at Allmusic . Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ Mike Joyce: Steve Grossman Quartet Featuring Harold Land: I'm Confessin '. JazzTimes, September 1, 2007, accessed August 18, 2020 .