Yaya3

Yaya3

Yaya3
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Performer: Yaya3
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-06-04
Music Label: Loma
Soundtracks:
  1. Slow Orbit
  2. Switchblade
  3. The Spirit Lives On
  4. One More Once
  5. Hometown
  6. Aeolio
  7. Two Remember, One Forgets
  8. The Scribe
  9. Confronting Our Fears

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Free Music Review: A totally enjoyable album
Hit: 5 Stars

I enjoyed (and still enjoy) Joshua Redman's 2002 CD Elastic so much that I went scrambling around after listening to it, trying to find other projects where he, keyboardist Sam Yahel and drummer Brian Blade had collaborated on, as well as solo projects by the latter two. My search led me on to several albums, including Yahel's Truth and Beauty, which does bring the three together again, and Brian Blade's Brian Blade Fellowship, which does not. Both are excellent albums in my opinion.

But this is the one I've really been looking for. Released the same year as "Elastic", none of the funk of that project is evident but it's still essentially got the same vibe. The soul and passion that made it so gratifying are definitely both here. My guess is that jazz purists would prefer this album of the two, as it's, well, much more 'jazzy' and much less 'smooth'. Once again, Redman plays tenor and soprano saxophones, Yahel plays the Hammond B-3 Organ and Blade of course, is on the drums. Blade contributes two of the songs - both ballads - "The Spirit Lives On" and the album closer (and one of my favourites here), "Confronting Our Fears". Redman writes the lively "Switchblade", "Two Remember and One Forgets", a slightly bossa nova number that reminds me of "Girl From Ipanema". Yahel writes the most on here - five in total - the album opener, the soulful "Slow Orbit", the winding "One More Chance", "Hometown" (another immensely soulful number), "Aeolio" and "The Scribe".

Produced by Yahel, Redman and Blade, I find this a totally enjoyable album. I especially find it astonishing that they could make the music sound so full without the benefit of a bass player. I really hope I come across something else soon, that these three worked on together. They make a brilliant team.

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The great tradition of organ trios is rediscovered with Yaya3 (Yaya cubed), a fiery collaboration of three of the finest young players in jazz-organist Sam Yahel, saxman Joshua Redman and drummer Brian Blade. On their debut album, featuring all original compositions, they recall such classic trios as those led by Kimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff. 9 tracks.
This first-time outing by the side-project trio of young organist Sam Yahel, star saxophonist Joshua Redman, and in-demand drummer Brian Blade is sneakily low-key--a set of originals you're ready to dismiss as lightweight until the soulful melodies and group chemistry kick in. Yahel (nicknamed "Yaya"), who is new to big-label exposure, combines the subtle, blissfully restrained touch of the recently deceased Shirley Scott with the dark cresting chords of '60s organ innovator Larry Young. Redman, on leave from the high concepts that have grounded his recent albums, offers some of his nimblest tenor playing in a while, making us regret that he doesn't cut loose more (he also gets more out of his soprano than usual). And Blade, whose past associations with Redman and Yahel brought them together, does a nice job of toning down his edgy, declamatory style and sweeps the music along. The album marks the reawakening of Warner Bros.' long-dormant R&B subsidiary, Loma Records. --Lloyd Sachs

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