Release Date: 03 March 2014
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602537597338
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 03 March 2014
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602537597338
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
The second ECM album by the Billy Hart Quartet is a major musical statement, and one of the outstanding jazz albums of the season. The group's reach - already broad on 2011's widely-acclaimed All Our Reasons - is yet more expansive here. Strong compositions - by leader-drummer Hart, tenorist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson - reflect upon a wide swathe of the music's history, and are distinguished by vivid and imaginative solos and wonderful interplay.
A basic premise, that this should be a band in which the vastly-experienced Billy Hart gets to play everything he wants to play, has led to a sense of almost unlimited possibility for all participants. There is freedom and joy in this music, and tenderness, too, not least in the set's sole standard, a beautifully-played version of "Some Enchanted Evening".
Billy Hart was there, right on the scene, when jazz began embracing the even-eighth note as a legitimate resource. On this album, his composition "Yard", a blues, connects Charlie Parker with all those grooves Hart played with Jimmy Smith, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and so many others, and the level of abstraction achieved by every member of the group attests to a long working relationship.
One is the Other was recorded in New York in 2013, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Personnel: Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Ethan Iverson (piano), Ben Street (double bass), Billy Hart (drums)
Tracklisting
Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan & Joao Lobo
Jordina Milla & Barry Guy
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Fred Hersch
John Taylor, Norma Winstone & Kenny Wheeler
John Williamson
Misha Tsiganov
Daniel Herskedal
Dag Arnesen Trio
Matyas Gayer
Neil Cowley Trio
Emmet Cohen
Threeway & John Etheridge