Mark Turner/Tune Number One/Yam Yam
This blog covers the music I play on my Live365 station: Jazz Note NSU. It is devoted to hard bop and avant garde jazz. Here I confess my faith: the center of genius in modern music is jazz; the center of genius in jazz is hard bop, and especially the body of music produced between the early 50's and the mid-60's. And at the center of it all is Miles Davis. This blog is especially aimed at readers who want to build a serious jazz library.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Mark Turner
It's late, and I'm tired, but I am listening to Mark Turner's debut album, Yam Yam. It carries me along is all I am prepared to say. Kurt Rosenwinkel plays guitar, Brad Mehldau on piano, Larry Grenadier on bass, Jorge Rosy on drums, and Seamus Blake and Terrance Dean wield two more tenors. It occurs to me at this midnight moment, that what I love best about jazz is the shift between instruments along the same musical theme. Here is a taste:
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