Trio Jeepy
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Trio Jeepy is a jazz album by Branford Marsalis , that on 3 and 4 January 1988 New York City was added and in 1989 by Columbia Records was released.
The album
The year before, Branford Marsalis and his working band , which included pianist Kenny Kirkland , bassist Delbert Felix and drummer Lewis Nash , had dealt with his role models as saxophonist, Wayne Shorter , John Coltrane , Ben Webster and Ornette Coleman . For his next project, his fifth album for Columbia, Marsalis took a step back in jazz history , invited a veteran of the swing era , the then 77-year-old bassist Milt Hinton, to play seven pieces with him and drummer Jeff Tain Watts - in addition to an original composition - a series of swing classics. He had already used the trio line-up for one track ("No Backstage Pass") on his first album, Scenes In the City . Another of his role models is the jazz standard “ Doxy ”, which the composer Sonny Rollins recorded with Miles Davis 44 years before the Trio Jeepy session. For “Doxy” and two other tracks, Ornette Coleman's “Peace” and Marsalis' “Random Abstract”, Hinton was joined by his regular bassist Delbert Felix.
The album opens with "Housed from Edward" - Branford Marsalis' tribute to Duke Ellington . Tain Watts is based on models from jazz history such as Baby Dodds , Zutty Singleton , Kenny Clarke or Jo Jones , mainly using a cymbal and a hi-hat and compensating for the missing piano accompaniment with a snare and bass drum . In Hoagy Carmichael's 1937 Standard, “The Nearness of You”, he ties in with Charlie Parker's ballads . “ Three Little Words ”, which Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby wrote in 1930, is played here based on the swing articulation of Ben Webster and Chu Berry and the structural structure of Sonny Rollins. The session character of the recordings is emphasized by the fact that the wrong start was left on the version. Similarly, the first short version of the Tin Pan Alley number “ Makin 'Whoopee ” penned by Walter Donaldson (1928) appears here.
The following title, "UMMG" (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) by Billy Strayhorn , is named after a facility where Ellington's longtime friend Arthur C. Logan worked. “Gutbucket Steepy” is a blues in des created jointly at the session . Hinton creates the calm, greatly slowed-down mood through his introduction; Tain Watts plays in the tradition of the blues drummer.
With Rollins' "Doxy" Delbert Felix comes for Milt Hinton. Branford Marsalis, "who plays the piece in a form that cannot be identified immediately," is, in Delfeayo Marsalis' view, a strong departure from the original version and plays in a way that is very reminiscent of Ornette Coleman. The title “Peace” is another “bow” to the free jazz pioneer. Marsalis had originally planned to play it with the soprano saxophone , but forgot the instrument; therefore the take that was actually intended as a rehearsal version can be heard here. The last track on the album, "Random Abstract" - with the subtitle "Tain's Rampage" - is a collective improvisation of the trio in the tradition of John Coltrane .
Rating of the album
The critic Scott Yanow rated the album in Allmusic with the second highest rating (4½ stars) and said Marsalis would certainly have had a lot of fun with these recordings; the recordings had a spontaneous character and occasional mistakes in the game were apparently left. Trio Jeepy is one of Branford Marsalis' most accessible recording sessions and Milt Hinton often steals the show from (him).
For the authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton , Trio Jeepy is a rambling session, only a few brilliant moments shining like the masterful ballad play in “The Nearness of You”, the convincing hint to Sonny Rollins (“Doxy”) and the free play of the Trio Marsalis -Felix-Watts as a happy flight. With all reservations, Trio Jeepy is a lightweight and entertaining album, and they awarded it three stars in their The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings .
Trio Jeepy was voted # 60 on the list of 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time .
The titles
- Branford Marsalis: Trio Jeepy (Columbia CBS 465134 2)
- Housed from Edward (B. Marsalis) - 9:27
- The Nearness of You ( Hoagy Carmichael , Ned Washington ) - 10:29
- Three Little Words ( Harry Ruby , Bert Kalmar ) - 5:15
- Makin 'Whoopee ( Walter Donaldson , Gus Kahn ) - 0:40
- UMMG ( Billy Strayhorn ) - 7:19
- Gutbucket Steepy (B. Marsalis, J. Watts, M. Hinton) - 6:27
- Doxy ( Sonny Rollins ) - 7:57
- Makin 'Whoopee (Reprise) - 8:57
- Peace (Ornette Coleman) - 9:10
- Random Abstract (Tain's Rampage) (B. Marsalis) - 8:00
- The two tracks Stardust and D-Flat blues on the double LP are missing from the CD edition for reasons of space
swell
- Branford Marsalis website
- List of the 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time
- Delfeayo Marsalis : Liner notes
- Trio Jeepy at Allmusic (English)
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
Remarks
- ↑ a b c Cf. Delfeayo Marsalis , Liner Notes .