Greg Abate - Gratitude (Live) (2019)

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Title: Gratitude (Live)
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Whaling City Sound
Genre: Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:11:52
Total Size: 168 mb | 458 mb
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Tracklist:

01. Gratitude (Live)
02. Bop Lives (Live)
03. Hazy Moon (Live)
04. In the Stratosphere (Live)
05. Farewell Phil Woods (Live)
06. Serenade to a Cuckoo (Live)
07. Jitterbug Waltz (Live)
08. Gemini (Live)
09. Dracula (Live)
10. For the Love of Life (Live)
11. Inner Urge (Live)

On his fourth recording with the Tim Ray Trio, all on Whaling City Sound, Greg Abate and friends search for and find the true essence of jazz. With no formal rehearsals, and subsequently, no overdubs, mulligans, and redos, the band captures its performance in truth, in full, and in the moment. With the seasoned support of Tim Ray (piano), John Lockwood (bass) and Mark Walker (drums), Abate and his various horns (alto, tenor and baritone saxes, as well as ute) cruise through a slate of mainly originals, along with Joe Hendersons Inner Urge and Roland Kirks Serenade to a Cuckoo, done here on tenor sax rather than the customary flute. Tim Ray and the trio add their surprising version of Fats Wallers Jitterbug Waltz. Abate is one of jazzs pure, natural talents, with energy, imagination and technique. The crowd must have really enjoyed this session because the sound, recorded and mixed by John Mailloux, is superb and the performances creative and exhilarating.