Billy Cobham - Art Of Four (2006) CD Rip

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Title: Art Of Four
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: In+Out[IOR CD 77085-2]
Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 54:27
Total Size: 374 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1. Good For The Soul
2. New Waltz
3. Alter Ego
4. Song Is You
5. Last Resort
6. If I Were A Bell
7. Four Play
8. Cissy Strut
9. Mushu Blues

personnel :

Donald Harrison - Alto Saxophone
James Williams - Piano
Ron Carter - Bass
Billy Cobham - Drums

With 2004's Art of Five, the fusion drums pioneer Billy Cobham indicated that his mid-life return to his bebop roots was a hot ticket. And this album proves to be another, with a fizzing Cobham driving a pedigree postbop band featuring alto saxist Donald Harrison, short-lived pianist James Williams (on one of his last recordings) and the bass legend Ron Carter. Most of the material here is original, and the improvisation is often scorching - Williams' jubilant sweep across bop, modalism and Cecil Taylorish abstraction in particular. Good for the Soul and Cissy Strut have a heated Art Blakey atmosphere. Harrison and Williams play solos of such fresh phrasing that they almost seem to reinvent the postbop language, and a fast The Song Is You has Harrison in biting Jackie McLean mode over fiery drumming. Carter's Last Resort is like a sardonic Stan Tracey piece, and Williams' Four Play is a rugged, Breckerish tour de force of fast blues. It's four stars for the blowing quality alone.