Music of Alec Wilder

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Music of Alec Wilder
Studio album by Vic Juris

Publication
(s)

1997

Label (s) Double-time records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Modern jazz , postbop

Title (number)

12

running time

1: 08.18

occupation
chronology
Night Tripper
(1996) 		Music of Alec Wilder Moonscape
(1997)

Music of Alec Wilder is an album by jazz guitarist Vic Juris . The recordings were made on September 23, 1996 and appeared in the same year on Double-Time Records .

background

Starting with Roadsong (1978, among others with Barry Miles, Rick Laird , Terry Silverlight ) Vic Juris recorded a number of albums under his own name until 2018. In 1995/96 Vic Juris u. a. with David Liebman ( John Coltrane's Meditations ), Steve LaSpina ( Story Time ) and Richie Cole . With Tim Hagans , David Liebman, Steve LaSpina and Jeff Hirshfield , he finally recorded an album in September 1996 with titles by the composer Alec Wilder (1907–1980), including "Lady Sings the Blues" (which Billie Holiday made famous from 1956), "Moon and Sand" and "While We're Young", which was popular in the USA from 1943 in versions by Don Cherry and Tony Bennett .

The present album is one of the few jazz productions dedicated to Alec Wilder's work, wrote Doug Ramsey in 2006; Bob Brookmeyer released the LP 7 X Wilder (Verve Records) in 1961 . Even Jackie Cain & Roy Kral ( to Alec Wilder Collection , 1990) and the pianist Marian McPartland (1980) took on Wilder tribute albums. In 2002 Ben Sidran and the Bob Rockwell Quartet released the album Walk Pretty .

Track list

  • Vic Juris - Music of Alec Wilder (Double-Time Records - DTRCD-118)
  1. Where Is the One ( Eddie Finckel , Alec Wilder) 6:11
  2. Goodbye John (Edward Eager, A. Wilder) 5:44
  3. Winter of My Discontent (Ben Ross Berenberg, Alec Wilder) 6:26
  4. Moon and Sand (A. Wilder, Morty Palitz, William Engvick) 5:42
  5. Blackberry Winter (Alec Wilder & Loonis McGlohon) 5:05
  6. A Long Night (A. Wilder, Loonis Mc Glohon) 5:05
  7. Lady Sings the Blues (A. Wilder, William Engvick) 7:22
  8. That's My Girl (A. Wilder, William Engvick) 5:38
  9. While We're Young (Alec Wilder, Morty Palitz, William Engvick) 6:53
  10. Homework 5:51
  11. Such a Lonely Girl Am I 3:49
  12. Little Circles 4:05
  • All other compositions are by Alec Wilder.

reception

Dave Liebman 2014

David R. Adler gave the album four (out of five) stars in Allmusic . In the opinion of the reviewer, Wilder's songs are ideally suited as vehicles for ambitious jazz improvisation. Liebman and Hagans were beautifully received, and Juris varied the ensemble configurations in order to present them and themselves in ever new contexts. The highlights include the author Hagans 'and Juris' delicate rendition of "Moon and Sand", Liebman's rendition of "Blackberry Winter" on the soprano, and Liebman and Hagan's play in "Winter of My Discontent" and "Where Is the One". Nowhere is Wilder's compositional breadth as clear as in the contrast between the intoxicating angularity of “That's My Girl” and the deep melancholy of “The Lady Sings the Blues”, judges Adler.

According to Jim Ferguson, who reviewed the album in 1997 in JazzTimes , Alec Wilder's melody-oriented music is dignified and artfully treated in the tradition of the great songwriters with a host of surprising twists and turns by Juris and his teammates. Meanwhile, the guitarist showed his respect for Wilder's talents and made him known in particular through his arrangements , which varied the instrument combinations creatively. Juris delivers "wonderful play", the author sums up, "anchored in Juris' unusually sensitive support and flowing solos."

Richard Cook and Brian Morton , who gave the album the second highest rating (3½ stars) in their Penguin Guide to Jazz , believe that Hagan and Liebman largely stole the show from the guitarist, making Juris "like the good and true sideman" worked that he was too. The material, including such obscure songs as "A Long Night" (which Wilder wrote for Frank Sinatra ), is "a win and the interpretations are consistently resourceful".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 1, 2020)
  2. ↑ Doug Ramsey: Weekend Extra: Alec Wilder. Rifftides, June 17, 2006, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Vic Juris - Music of Alec Wilder at Discogs
  4. ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ Jim Ferguson: Vic Juris: Music of Alec Wilder. JazzTimes, May 1, 1997, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  6. ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide To Jazz on CD . (8th ed.) Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .