A NYC Tribute feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker - Monk (2012) [Hi-Res]

Not every 'grey' is also an Eminence - but this person here definitely is: August-Wilhelm Scheer, baritone saxophonist and a passionate jazz musician, and for many years through the „August-Wilhelm-Scheer-Foundation for Science and Art“ a sponsor of the jazz scene. He says, the jazz makes him „spiritually free - like a bird in the air“. If somebody like him who has earned his money as an enterpriser and university professor and impresses in more than one area, gets together with a legend of the jazz - or we better say, with another legend – something amazing can be expected. Especially, if the second legend is none less than Jimmy Cobb. Together one devotes himself to the work of a third, also a legend of jazz Thelonious Monk, to whom Scheer would like to raise a monument and give respect on „A NYC tributes “ (JAZZ'nA'RTS). He had experienced him personally: „Monk“, remembers Scheer, „was a strange and bizarre personality. I saw him beginning of the 60ies as a student live in Hamburg. Monk played, got up from the grand piano and bounced around like a bear. Then he turned around quickly as a flash in order to get back to his piano for continuing playing. This is my very personal remembrance of him!“ Moreover, Monk is for him, beside Duke Ellington, the most important jazz composer. „Pieces like ‚Round Midnight‘ will always have continuance existence“, thinks Scheer. In this he is united with John Coltrane who, as Martin Kunzler quotes in the rororo-jazz encyclopaedia, called Monk „a musical architect of the highest rank“.

At first sight, the partnership between Scheer and Cobb may seem unlikely - here the successful man from the economy, there the world-renowned jazz star who sat with Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue' at the drums and since then incessantly remained active. However, “Monk - A NYC tributes“ is not their first encounter - already in 2006 you could hear them both combined on the 'BEBOP, Process Excellence, Volume two' album. Scheer highly estimates Cobb - for what he is, and for his life work. Scheer is outraged that „by the way, Cobb was paid for his participating in ‚child of Blue', the probably most famous jazz album of all times, 30 dollars!“. „Cobbs career push came with Cannonball Adderly“, knows how to report Ralf Dombrowski in Reclams jazz encyclopaedia, „who engaged him in 1957 in his combo and after an intermezzo with Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie, mediated him in the quintet of Miles Davis.“

Randy Brecker, trumpet & flugelhorn
Gunnar Mossblad, tenor saxophone
August-Wilhelm Scheer, baritone saxophone
Jim Ridl, piano
Tony Marino, bass
Jimmy Cobb, drums

Tracklist:
01. A NYC Tribute - Teo (Feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker) (10:25)
02. A NYC Tribute - Evidence (Feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker) (6:19)
03. A NYC Tribute - Green Chimneys (Feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker) (9:36)
04. A NYC Tribute - Scooter (Feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker) (7:19)
05. A NYC Tribute - Little Rootie Tootie (Feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker) (7:15)
06. A NYC Tribute - Ask Me Now (Feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker) (9:49)
07. A NYC Tribute - Balue Bolivar Blues (Feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker) (7:36)
08. A NYC Tribute - Criss Cross (Feat. Jimmy Cobb & Randy Brecker) (10:31)