Tributaries: Reflections on Tommy Flanagan

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Tributaries: Reflections on Tommy Flanagan
Studio album by Roland Hanna

Publication
(s)

2003

Label (s) IPO FRecordings

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Modern jazz , postbop

Title (number)

11

running time

64:48

occupation

production

William F. Sorin

Studio (s)

SUNY Performing Arts Center, Purchase, New York

chronology
Sir Roland Hanna with Ron Carter , Grady Tate - Apres Un Reve
(2003) 		Tributaries: Reflections on Tommy Flanagan Colors from a Giant's Kit
(2011)
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Tributaries: Reflections on Tommy Flanagan is a posthumous jazz album by Roland Hanna , with compositions related to Tommy Flanagan . The recordings, made in June 2002 at the SUNY Performing Arts Center, Purchase, New York, were released in 2003 on IPO Recordings. Hanna recorded this homage to his old friend, who died on November 16, 2001. A few months after completing this recording, Hanna developed a viral infection of the heart herself and died on November 13, 2002.

background

Shortly before his death, Sir Roland Hanna made a series of recordings for the label IPO Recordings; This resulted in Everything I Love (released in 2002), Colors from a Giant's Kit (released in 2011) and I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues (2002, with Carrie Smith ). Hanna's solo piano homage to Tommy Flanagan has the background that both pianists came from Detroit and followed similar career paths, wrote Jim Santilla. They were good friends; one had acted as musical director of Ella Fitzgerald , while the other, Hanna, was the musical director of Sarah Vaughan . Two of Flanagan's compositions are represented, they open and close the album.

Flanagan first recorded "Sea Changes" in 1996 for the album of the same name, accompanied by Peter Washington and Lewis Nash ; "Delarna" appeared in 1958 as "Dalarna" on Flanagan's prestige album Overseas (with Wilbur Little and Elvin Jones ).

Title 10, "Robbin's Nest", was accidentally referred to as "Robin's Nest".

Track list

Tommy Flanagan
  • Sir Roland Hanna: Tributaries: Reflections on Tommy Flanagan (IPO Recordings IPOC1004)
  1. Sea Changes (Flanagan) - 4:22
  2. A Child Is Born ( Thad Jones ) - 6:50
  3. Body and Soul ( Johnny Green , Frank Eyton , Edward Heyman , Robert Sour ) - 8:28
  4. Soon ( George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) - 4:43
  5. Things Ain't What They Used to Be ( Mercer Ellington ) - 5:29
  6. Never Let Me Go ( Jay Livingston , Ray Evans ) - 7:00
  7. The Cup Bearers ( Tom McIntosh ) - 7:25
  8. 'Tis (Jones) - 4:33
  9. I Concentrate on You ( Cole Porter ) - 6:37
  10. Robin's Nest ( Illinois Jacquet , Bob Russell , Sir Charles Thompson ) - 4:03
  11. Delarna (Flanagan) - 5:18

reception

Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ (out of five) stars and wrote: "Hanna's homage to the recently deceased Flanagan is so full of life, creativity and swing" that it is hard to believe that the artist passed away only five months after the recording. "After listening to this highly recommended CD, there can be little doubt that Hanna played very well until the end of his productive life."

Jim Santilla wrote in All About Jazz that Hanna interprets lyrical ballads with ease; “His movements flow smoothly and his use of harmonious textures puts each piece on a pedestal. The flowing rhythms of the pianist comment on the performance with swing . The variety with which he meets these well-known standards gives a boost to the performance. ”The two pieces composed by Flanagans showed serenity and deep feeling, wrote Santilla. “Hanna interprets them with passion, slowly and consciously. During this beautiful homage there is poetry, as well as during two fruitful and unforgettable careers. "

According to Richard Cook and Brian Morton , who rated the album three (out of four) stars, the highlights with "Sea Changes", "A Child Is Born" and "Body and Soul" can be found in the first half; the second part is somewhat formulaic, which is not typical for Hanna.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jim Santilla: Sir Roland Hanna: Tributaries: Reflections On Tommy Flanagan. May 6, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Sir Roland Hanna: Tributaries: Reflections on Tommy Flanagan at Discogs
  3. ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  4. ^ Cit. Cook & Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz. Edition 2006, p. 588 f.