Jon Faddis - Teranga
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Artist: Jon FaddisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
- The Hunters & Gatherers (6:38) (Faddisphere Music, BMI)
- Hey, Lalo! (5:37) (Faddisphere Music, BMI)
- Waltz for My Fathers & Brothers (5:17) (Faddisphere Music, BMI)
- Teranga (12:08) (Faddisphere Music, BMI)
- The Courtship (6:34) (Bee Cee Music, ASCAP)
- The Fibble-Ow Blues (6:35) (Faddisphere Music, BMI)
- Laurelyn (5:56) (Faddisphere Music, BMI)
- Transitions (2:25) (Faddisphere Music, BMI)
- The Baron (4:55) (Faddisphere Music, BMI)
Free Music Notes for Teranga
Free Music Review: Great musician
Hit: 5 Stars
I purchased this CD immediately after attending a hot and swinging concert of Jon Faddis quartet in Zagreb; they played several numbers from this album and I was quite intrigued and highly entertained...
The album shows the virtuosity of Jon and his band, although the live performance was (not surprisingly) more spirited. However, the album boasts some stellar and absolutely amazing guests, including the one and only Clark Terry, a true giant and a musician who inspires other musicians and warms the listener's hearts.
Most of the compositions are by Faddis, and they are fine, but the true gem is one tune composed by Benny Carter - Faddis is probably a better player than composer. But what a power house player he is - capable of highest flights (and highest notes), he is also quite subtle when necessary, a true musician...
Naturally, one can say Dizzy Gillespie's influence is still audible in Faddis' playing, but that is by no means a fault. Faddis is not a great innovator, he is "only" a great musician.
Teranga Poster
Jon Faddis has been showing he is one of the best trumpeters in jazz in 35 years now, and it is clear on his new album, "Teranga." It shows his almost-unbelievable like range and power as well as his virtuosic quickness. On "Hey, Lalo!," for instance, his muted solo rips into an upper-register statement of "Flight of the Bumblebee." But he can back down and be touching too, as he shows on "Waltz for My Fathers & Brothers," dedicated to Michael Brecker, afflicted with bone marrow disease. Faddis is gentle with the Brazilian "Laurelyn" and somewhat somber with "Transitions." The album also includes guests such as guitarist Russell Malone, flutist Frank Wess and trumpeter Clark Terry, who joins in on "The Fibble-Ow Blues," a bit of classic Terry garble-talk. They may offer great work, but Faddis is the star. By Bob Karlovits, The Pittsburgh Tribune.Though Jon Faddis has enjoyed a distinguished a career as a trumpeter and bandleader, he has underachieved as a recording artist. He has made relatively few albums, none of them classics. (Interestingly, for all the albums his legendary mentor Dizzy Gillespie made, he isn't regarded as a great recording artist, either.) Teranga may not completely rehabilitate Faddis's studio reputation, but it's a solid, satisfying effort that draws cohesiveness from the presence of his working quartet and high spirits from the guest presence of the inimitable Clark Terry on "The Fibble-Ow Blues" (there's also a duet with guitarist Russell Malone). The soft, folk-melodic rhapsodizing on the 12-minute title cut, which features Senegalese percussion, is a bit cloying (think Herb Alpert), but it is overshadowed by moments of taut beauty and sly wit. Faddis enjoys toying with us with his muted, sotto voce tones before unleashing those trademark upper-register exhortations. The sure-footed rhythm section of David Hazeltine, Kyoshi Kitagawa and Dion Parson finds variety in the grooves and, on Benny Carter's "The Courtship," eloquence. --Lloyd Sachs
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