The State of the Tenor - Live at the Village Vanguard
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| Live album by Joe Henderson | ||||
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14th |
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105: 53 |
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The State of the Tenor - Live at the Village Vanguard is a jazz album by Joe Henderson , recorded on November 14th, 15th and 16th, 1985 and released on Blue Note Records the following year .
The album
The album The State of the Tenor - Live at the Village Vanguard is now one of the classic recordings of the "new" Blue Note label of the era after Alfred Lion and one of the modern jazz of the 1980s.
During a quartet appearance by the saxophonist in New York's Village Vanguard in the early 1980s , Stanley Crouch had the idea of leaving out the pianist and presenting Joe Henderson in a trio with Ron Carter and Al Foster , as Henderson's great role model Sonny Rollins had done 28 years earlier also published in Village Vanguard and on Blue Note . Crouch brought the idea to the then label boss Bruce Lundvall , who agreed. Crouch and co-producer Michael Cuscuna selected songs for the sessions that would suit Joe Henderson's trio, but shouldn't be too familiar to them in order to increase the musical tension. Two albums were to be produced from the live performances, the song material of which ranged from Ellington , Charlie Parker ( Cheryl ), to three rarely played Monk titles, Mingus ( portrait ) to Sam Rivers ' composition Beatrice . In addition, there were standards from the American Songbook such as the classic All the Things You Are or Stella by Starlight as well as three original compositions by Ron Carter ( Loose Change ) and Henderson such as Isotope , which he had already recorded in his Milestone years around 1970. His seldom played composition Y Ya La Quiero was recorded for Enja in 1978 with a trio in Munich , while The Bead Game was a new composition. The selected pieces have been transcribed to fit the "Spartan" (Cuscuna) trio.
The titles
CD 1
- Beatrice (Sam Rivers) 5:37
- Friday the Thirteenth (Thelonious Monk) 8:07
- Happy Reunion (Duke Ellington) 8:23
- Loose Change (Ron Carter) 6:54
- Ask Me Now (Monk) 5:53
- Isotopes (Joe Henderson) 9:15
- Stella by Starlight ( Victor Young / Ned Washington ) 10:06
CD 2
- Boo Boo's Birthday (Monk) 7:08
- Cheryl (Charlie Parker) 7:28
- Y Ya La Quiero (Henderson) 6:27
- Soulville ( Horace Silver ) 5:27
- Portrait (Mingus) 6:53
- The Bead Game (Henderson) 9:32
- All the Things You Are ( Jerome David Kern / Oscar Hammerstein ) 8:43
Editorial note
The recordings were initially released as two individual LPs (Vol. 1 BT 85123 and Vol. 2 BT 85123) or CDs (Vol. 1 B2-46296 and Vol. 2 B2-46426); In 1994 the album was released as a double CD (CDP 7243 682887928).
Impact history
Blue Note founder Alfred Lion said after listening to the first album after it was released, “I think this is really a classic album. What Joe is playing is amazing. With, Ron, that's the state of the bass . This is one of the most important albums I've ever heard. It's definitely one of the best ever made for Blue Note; and I didn't mean the new Blue Note (label). It's one of the best including all the records we made on our label in the fifties and sixties ”. Richard Cook and Brian Morton award the album with the highest rating of four stars in their Penguin Guide to Jazz .
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Michael Cuscuna: liner notes for The State of the Tenor - Live at the Village Vanguard