The Bespoke Man's Narrative - Aaron Diehl (2013)

Tracklist

01. Prologue
02. Generation Y
03. Blue Nude
04. Moonlight In Vermont
05. Single Petal of a Rose
06. The Cylinder
07. Stop and Go
08. Le tombeau de couperin (III. Forlane)
09. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
10. Epilogue


Aaron Diehl s BESPOKE MAN S NARRATIVE puts new spin on modern jazz quartet [Examiner.com] The hot, young 2011 Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz could ve gone in any creative direction for his first album on Mack Avenue Records (a payoff of the win). Aaron Diehl, 27, went back in time to a period where big band and be bop were kings and a neoclassical pianist by the name of John Lewis enacted a Renaissance of improvisational jazz and structured chamber music. In the 1950s and on into 1999, Lewis and his Modern Jazz Quartet vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Connie Kay classed up jazz. They revolutionized the concept and style of jazz with an emphasis on making full use of every note and the spaces in between, to where nothing went to waste, paying equal attention to the improvisational and written portions of each tune, as well as applying the fugue effect, playing a series of differing melodies concurrently. Known for the hit, Django, MJQ would set the bar high and set the trend for subsequent jazz-classical bands everywhere, with far-reaching, cross-over effects. In keeping with the Renaissance, Lewis also maintained the band s fashionable first impressions. Every member of the band had to be dressed up and to the nines, with the same fastidious attention to detail as they paid to the music. It was while Aaron Diehl, then 19 and a sophomore at Juilliard, was tending to the late John Lewis music archives all in an effort to make it easy on surviving widow Mirjana that inspiration first hit for this debut album. In 2008, the rest of the concept came into view when...

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