Cat No:
SCD2169
Release Date: 29 June 2018
Label: Savant Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 633842216928
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
Tenor saxophonist JD Allen's output on Savant Records has been steady since his 2012 album 'The Matador and the Bull', and this beautiful and intensely interesting ballads album is an assured milestone in his career to date.
There are patented JD-isms: that almost operatic-like swoon and smear of tone; deconstructed themes full of non-linearity and melodic asides arriving unforeseen. As in all of Allen's recordings, there is also a spare Chopin-like quality, with a shadowy, crepuscular character to much of the material.
An album made up entirely of ballads requires a first-rate harmonic foundation and guitarist Liberty Ellman once again proves himself to be the most sensitive of accompanists, alternating between full harmonic richness and skittering, almost pointillistic lines which merely hint at the harmonies. The depth of Allen's timbre and phrasing is such that the absence of a keyboard is not really felt, and his quartet proves again that it is one of the most highly accomplished small groups in contemporary jazz.
Personnel: JD Allen (tenor saxophone), Liberty Ellman (guitar), Gregg August (bass), Rudy Royston (drums)
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Tracklisting
- 1. Stranger in Paradise
- 2. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
- 3. Why Was I Born
- 4. You're My Thrill
- 5. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
- 6. Put On a Happy Face
- 7. Prisoner of Love
- 8. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
- 9. Gone With the Wind
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Like Minds
Alan Broadbent Trio
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For All We Know
Jim Snidero
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Find A Heart
Denise Donatelli
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The Latin Side of Mingus
Conrad Herwig
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A Change Is Gonna Come
Bill O'Connell
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It's All Your Fault
Mike LeDonne
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The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful
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Artform Revisited
Louis Hayes
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The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful
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Americana Vol. 2
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Queen City
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Toys / Die Dreaming
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