The Blue Note New Directions Band
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2000-01-25
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Theme from BLW Up - Hancock, Herbie
- The Sidewinder - Morgan, Lee
- Ping Pong - Shorter, Wayne
- Beatrice - Rivers, Sam [1]
- No Room for Squares - Mobley, Hank
- Song for My Father - Silver, Horace
- Tom Thumb - Shorter, Wayne
- Commentary on Electrical Switches - Moran, Jason
- Big Bertha - Pearson, Duke
- Recorda Me - Henderson, Joe [1]
- Song of the Whispering Banshee - Harris, Stefon
- False Start
- 20 Questions - Osby, Greg
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Free Music Review: Accurate Title: New Directions for Old Tunes
Hit: 5 Stars
This is (was) a very young band of very hot players. I recommend it highly both to listeners with a broad background in jazz and to those without. Those with a background will recognize all the tunes: Song for My Father, Recorda Me, Beatrice, Three Way Split, etc. They are all great jazz tunes, redone in a hip style. Those without a background will encounter a set of great compositions, played in a very engaging manner. The rhythm section grooves--hear especially the odd time-feeling of Recorda Me--the soloists are hot, and most of all the arrangements are novel and exciting. Greg Osby's alto playing is great, and the piano playing of Jason Moran is a special highlight. It is a CD that you can easily listen to many times over. I recommend it.
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In the 1960s, jazz musicians signed to the Blue Note label often appeared on each other's albums in various all-star groupings. Then the tradition faded--at least until the late 1990s. New Directions revives the tradition, featuring several of Blue Note's brightest stars--vibraphonist Stefon Harris, pianist Jason Moran, tenor saxophonist Mark Shim, and (relative veteran and nominal group leader) alto saxophonist Greg Osby--reinterpreting classic material drawn from the Blue Note archives. While the choices lean toward the boogaloo side of the catalog--Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder," Horace Silver's "Song for My Father," Joe Henderson's "Recorda Me"--the arrangements are closer in the spirit to the cool cerebralism of Wayne Shorter. Moran is the most immediately original of the young players here; check for his inside-out solo on "Sidewinder" and the piano-vibes duet on Sam Rivers's "Beatrice." But the unsung heroes of the session are bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, who play hot and cool, hip-hop and postbop, all in the same blue note. --Rick Mitchell
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