Live at Jazzhus Slukefter, Vol. 2
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| Live album by Hank Jones | ||||
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| Label (s) | Storyville Records | |||
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CD |
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9 |
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1:01:40 |
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Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen |
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Live at Jazzhus Slukefter, Vol. 2 is a jazz album by the Hank Jones Trio with bassist Mads Vinding and drummer Shelly Manne . The recordings, made on June 7, 1983 during a guest performance in Copenhagen, were released on Storyville Records in June 2020 . The release follows the recording Live at Jazzhus Slukefter 1983 (also with Mads Vinding and Shelly Manne), which was released in April 2018.
background
Through his collaboration with Charlie Parker and various original bebop musicians, Hank Jones became known as a pianist with a bop-accented gameplay, wrote François van de Linde. It influenced Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie's new and complex symbiosis of harmony, melody and rhythm. Even Bud Powell exerted a strong influence on him. Jones, who had originally toured in the swing bands of Hot Lips Page and Andy Kirk , also studied classical music theory with the renowned Jascha Zade in New York, “one of countless examples in the jazz biography that the absurd myth of the classical jazz man as Expose “noble savages”, ”said van de Linde. According to his own admission, Hank Jones shared with his Canadian colleague Oscar Peterson the idea that a career as a concert pianist would have been possible if the times had been less discriminatory and depressing. Instead of a classic career, he worked as a performer for the CBS broadcast system from 1959 to 1974.
Jones is accompanied by Mads Vinding, who had worked with the pianist on several other visits to Europe and had recorded at least once with the pianist when Jones was invited to the JazzPar concerts ( Hank Jones Trio , Storyville) in 1991 . Shelly Manne, a close contemporary of Jones, was associated with him through studio work in Los Angeles and made an appearance as a studio musician in the film The Man with the Golden Arm . The selected songs on these recordings were very diverse, with compositions from the jazz world as well as from contemporary pop music . The waltz "Emily" came from the 1964 film The Americanization of Emily , one of the first successes in the film music of the former jazz musician Johnny Mandel , who died in 2020. Jerome Kern's " All the Things You Are " came from a forgotten Broadway musical comedy that ran for only seven weeks in 1939, but was picked up by numerous singers and instrumentalists immediately afterwards. “ Your is my whole heart ”, however, goes back even further to an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár from 1929 - hence the two slightly different English-language titles - which jazz musicians did not adopt until the late 1950s. In Jones' solo in the opening track one can notice short quotes from Chopin's “Polonaise Militaire” and the song “If I Should Lose You” by Ralph Rainger from the 1930s.
Track list
- Hank Jones Trio: Live at Jazzhus Slukefter, Vol. 2 (Storyville 1018471)
- Recorda Me / Aka No Me Esquieca (Joe Henderson) 6:58
- Arrival ( Horace Parlan ) 7:08
- Emily (Johnny Mandel) 7:34
- All the Things You Are ( Jerome David Kern , Oscar Hammerstein II ) 8:50
- Yours Is My Heart Alone / Aka You Are My Heart's Delight ( Franz Lehár ) 6:30
- Ruby My Dear (Thelonious Monk) 7:43
- The Bruise (Eddie Gomez) 5:09
- Interlude ( JJ Johnson ) 8:07
- Moose the Mooche (Charlie Parker) 3:41
reception
According to François van de Linde, who reviewed the album in the Jazz Journal , Hank Jones' “comeback to jazz is remarkable and finding a better example of his skill as a live performer than Live at Slufekter, Vol 2 . Jones plows a fertile land of ideas and is sometimes full of inspiration. ”Remarkable elegance of lines permeates his performances, including a sleek version of Joe Henderson's “ Recorda Me ”and a swinging version of Charlie Parker's“ Moose the Mooche ”. According to the author, Eddie Gomez ' blues melody "The Bruise" with its simultaneous double timings of Jones, Vinding and Manne, Jones' delicate interpretation of Johnny Mandel's "Emily" and his solo version of Thelonious Monk's " Ruby, My Dear " out. Jones' game is characterized by complexity, embedded in a lush river, according to van de Linde. Vinding and Manne added notable solo spots, which in Vinding's case are breathtaking. Even more important, however, is that Jones, due to his flexibility and the consistent change from Manne from the rich broomstick to the balanced use of the sticks, can look forward to his flow and architecture of the arches. This is the essential part of the art of meaningful storytelling and, of course, suits a pianist with as amazing a level of imagination as Hank Jones'.
George W. Harris praised "the priceless and timeless beauty" of the pianist's playing in Jazz Weekly . Jones' way of playing is rooted in his gradual touch, in which Bud Powell's hot bebop lines combine with elegance, as in Joe Henderson's "Recorda Me" or during the short version of Charlie Parker's "Moose the Mooche". Melodic beauty flows into "Emily", while bassist Mads Vinding gets some space in "All The Things You Are". Jones' skillful left hand touch on other pianist pieces, such as in Thelonious Monk's "Ruby My Dear" and "Arrival" by Horace Parlan, are rich in harmony and feeling. Throughout the evening, Manne kept the mood fluid on the drums, flattering the obscure "Your is my heart alone" and wavering in "The Bruise".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the album at Bandcamp
- ↑ a b François van de Linde: Hank Jones Trio: Live at Jazzhus Slukefter, Vol. 2. Jazz Journal, July 6, 2020, accessed on June 11, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Information about the album at Storyville
- ↑ Hank Jones Trio: Live at Jazzhus Slukefter, Vol. 2 at Discogs
- ↑ George W. Harris: IT SOUNDS SO EASY… Hank Jones Trio: Live At Jazzhus Slukefter Vol. 2. Jazz Weekly, June 29, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 (English).