Soul on Soul

Dave Douglas Sextet - Soul on Soul

Soul on Soul
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Artist: Dave Douglas Sextet
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-02-08
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. Blue Heaven
  2. Ageless
  3. Soul On Soul
  4. Moon Of The West
  5. Canticle
  6. Aries
  7. Mary's Idea
  8. Waltz Boogie
  9. Multiples
  10. Kyrie
  11. Zonish
  12. Eleven Years Old
  13. Play It Momma

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Free Music Review: The importance of composition
Hit: 2 Stars

This CD is called "Soul on Soul", but I can hear only on soul: that's Mary Lou Williams and her compositions. On the four Williams tunes on this CD you can clearly hear what the other tunes, all Douglas compositions are missing: a melody, a theme. Most of the time it is just useless Bebop-Doodeling. On has to ask himself, why on earth Dave Douglas chose this subject for his CD, because the musical styles are so different - if he wanted to make a present day hommage to Mary Lou Williams, he clearly failed to capture the essence of William's music.
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It makes sense that Dave Douglas's major-label debut should be his most accessible recording yet. Soul on Soul's user-friendly quality stems not only from its standard jazz instrumentation (trumpeter Douglas, pianist Uri Caine, trombonist Joshua Roseman, bassist James Genus, drummer Joey Baron, and either Chris Speed or Greg Tardy on reeds) but also from its inspiration. As he had with earlier albums devoted to Booker Little (In Our Lifetime), Wayne Shorter (Stargazer), and Joni Mitchell (Moving Portrait), Douglas pays tribute to big-band arranger, boogie-swing pianist, and sacred-jazz composer Mary Lou Williams by revamping her tunes and creating new compositions in her style. The young trumpeter neither slavishly imitates the legend nor obscures her. Instead he uses her materials--orchestral harmonies, bluesy syncopation, sophisticated gospel--as the building blocks for his thoroughly modern music. The instinctive improvisations always evolve organically from the cerebral compositions, and the solos always find unexpected detours before coming home. A great album. --Geoffrey Himes

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