Live at Firehouse 12 (Gerald Cleaver album)
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Live at Firehouse 12 is a jazz album by Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour. The recordings were made on December 15, 2006 at Firehouse 12 and were released on November 1, 2019 on Sunnyside Records .
background
Drummer Gerald Cleaver had put together an ensemble to perform live at Firehouse 12 , a venue in New Haven, Connecticut. Violet Hour acted for the first time at Cleaver's recordings for the album Detroit , which was created in the Brooklyn venue Barbès in December 2006. On this recording, JD Allen III (tenor saxophone), Andrew Bishop (bass clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophone), Jeremy Pelt (trumpet), Ben Waltzer (piano) and Chris Lightcap (double bass) played again with Cleaver .
Track list
- Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour: Live at Firehouse 12 (Sunnyside SSC 1565)
- Pilgrim's Progress 05:58
- Silly One 08:25
- Tale of Bricks 11:27
- Carla's Day 08:25
- Detroit 11:37
- All compositions are by Gerald Cleaver.
reception
Giovanni Russonello ( The New York Times ) named it one of the ten best jazz albums of 2019. “It's masterful and unpretentious, full of original compositions driven by powerful rhythm rather than structural complexity, and always by the resilient movement of this experienced drummer are driven."
Jim Macnie wrote in JazzTimes that when compared to the sextet's Detroit album, “his new record from a New Haven gig of the same era makes its power even clearer.” Live at Firehouse 12 is accompanied by the fast-paced snare beats of “Pilgrim's Progress ”full of outcry and gain strength with every new exchange of ideas. Bishop's use of the bass clarinet, Pelt's sense of harmony, and the band leader's creative ideas sometimes make the record's temperament seem like an unholy mixture of Eric Dolphy's Live at Five Spot and Clifford Brown / Max Roach's Live at Basin Street . Allen's poetic aggression on “Silly One”, Lightcap's traversal of “Tale of Bricks”, a sweet and sour filigree from Bishop in unexpected places - when mixed with Cleaver's wild pulse, everything becomes an indispensable document of the creativity of the 2000 years .
The critic of Jazztrail noted that this new appearance by the sought-after drummer / composer Gerald Cleaver is a bottomless pit, full of energy and robustness. In addition, this is a swing record in which his razor-sharp drumming skills consolidate a rhythm section that also includes pianist Ben Waltzer and bassist Chris Lightcap. With their knowledge of rhythm and their charismatic accompaniment, they support the melodic journeys of trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and saxophonists JD Allen and Andrew Bishop, a strong frontline. This is a real group work, the author continued, in which Cleaver demonstrates his ability to adapt to a specific situation. Cleaver and his Violet Hour group gave these compositions, whose musical strength tends to increase the pulse rate, a stimulating freshness
Web links
- Information from Sunnyside Records
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved October 1, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stylistic classification according to discogs
- ↑ Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour: Live at Firehouse 12 at Discogs
- ↑ Giovanni Russonello: Best Jazz of 2019: Brilliance accommodates any form - and, as these albums show, sometimes lightning lands in a bottle. The New York Times, December 5, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Jim Macnie: Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour: Live at Firehouse 12 (Sunnyside): A review of the drummer-led sextet's album recorded in New Haven. November 21, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour: Live at Firehouse 12 . Jazztrail, October 26, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020 .