Shelly Manne & His Men - At the Blackhawk, Vol. 2
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Music CD Cover Artist: Shelly Manne & His Men Edition: Music CD Format: Live CD Release Date: 1991-07-01 Music Label: Ojc Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for At the Blackhawk, Vol. 2 Album
Free Music Review: Definitive live jazz
Hit: 5 Stars
The multiple-volume _Live at the Blackhawk_ set is one of the classic live dates of the 1950s. West Coast jazz has been usually unfairly denigrated in the annals of jazz, as being too buttoned-down & superficial, in comparison with the increasingly aggressive & blunt hard bop of the East Coast of the time. A listen to any of the albums in this series will quickly dispose of such stereotypes. Manne usefully avoids the jauntiness & bounciness that sometimes beset West Coast jazz: these performances are relaxed but intensely bluesy at the core. This volume includes only three tunes, Benny Golson's classic "Step Lightly" (two takes are given, of which the 2nd, unreleased take is notably faster), a medium-up "What's New" which builds in excitement peerlessly over 13 minutes, & a strutting blues by Charlie Mariano, "Vamp's Blues" which took up an entire side of the original LP. ("A Gem from Tiffany" is merely the band's signoff at the end, just a 15 second coda to the disc.)The band is a fine one. Richie Kamuca has never got the attention he deserved, but he is a tenor player fully the equal of Harold Land, Teddy Edwards or JR Monterose, his West Coast peers. His elegant lines & foggy Lestorian tone recall his East Coast contemporary Hank Mobley. Joe Gordon was one of the finest trumpeters of his generation (& died tragically young), with a charmingly tart tone which frequently has the quality of speech. The British ex-pat Victor Feldman is a notably subtle pianist (who was briefly in Miles Davis's band in the 1960s just before Herbie Hancock, & the association of the two pianists isn't coincidence, as Miles was at the time looking for more colouristic approaches to harmony than were to be found in bop piano). Monty Budwig & Shelly Manne make a rhythm section at once subtle & yet irresistably swinging. Manne was, perhaps rarely for a drummer of his generation, very much attuned to colour & pure sound rather than just dropping bombs. He's always worth listening to, whatever anyone else in the band is doing.
Classic jazz--recorded in 1959, it sums up the decade of jazz just before the wrenching innovations of the 1960s. Manne, of course, was already aware of the coming revolution, having played on one of Ornette Coleman's earliest recording dates....