Release Date: 19 January 2024
Label: Red Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 027312316223
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 19 January 2024
Label: Red Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 027312316223
Genres: Jazz  
Description
This highly regarded Ronnie Mathews trio session from 1980 with bassist Ray Drummond and drummer Kenny Washington is a must for fans of piano jazz trios. Featured here are well known standards by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington. Sammy Cahn, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, plus Ronnie Mathews' own 'Song For Leslie' and Ray Drummond's 'Susanita'.
One of the most prestigious pianists of the past 40 years and yet one of those essential contributors to the puzzle of jazz history who has not received due recognition. His years of touring and his many albums, both as leader and sideman, are overwhelming in number. Critics have showered accolades upon his name and affectionately compare him to fellow pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, with a sprinkle of McCoy Tyner.
"His inventiveness as a soloist and as a composer is combined with the solidity and safety of the harmonic speech, the suppleness and dynamism of the rhythmic support, without variations in mood and form. It's not for nothing that he was the trusted man of artists like Max Roach, Art Blakey, Clark Terry, etc." PINO CANDINI, MUSICA JAZZ
"Who is Ronnie Mathews descended from? I quote Red Garland, Oscar Peterson, Tommy Flanagan, maybe even Bill Evans. This is only for what concerns the physiognomy: the 'sacred fire' is all his."GIUSEPPE PIACENTINO, MUSICA JAZZ
Ronnie Mathews, piano
Ray Drummond, bass
Kenny Washington, drums
Recorded by Franco Zorzi at Music Center, Bologna, Italy, March 1, 1980
Producer, Alberto Alberti
Tracklisting
Art Pepper
Joe Henderson
Johnny Dyani
Woody Shaw Quintet
Victor Lewis Quintet
Ronnie Mathews
Fred Hersch, Steve La Spina, Jeff Hirshfield & Jerry Bergonzi
Bobby Watson Quartet
Various Artists
Nat King Cole
Mahalia Jackson
David Janeway
Andy LaVerne & Dick Sisto
Malia
JD Allen
Brandon Sanders