Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz - Bird at 100 (2019) CD Rip

22 Oct, 00:02
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Artist: Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz
Title: Bird at 100
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Smoke Sessions Records[SSR 1908]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 72:22
Total Size: 493 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Klactoveedsedstene (Parker) - 5:45
02. Bird-ish (Watson) - 6:39
03. Lover Man (Davis-Sherman-Ramirez) - 9:34
04. The Hymn (Parker) - 9:59
05. These Foolish Things (Link-Marvell-Strachey) - 8:51
06. Folklore (Herring) - 7:30
07. Bird Lives (McLean) - 6:09
08. April in Paris (Harburg-Duke) - 6:53
09. Yardbird Suite (Parker) - 11:02

personnel :

Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz - alto saxophone
David Kikoski - piano
Yasushi Nakamura - bass
Carl Allen - drums

His recorded body of work the holy scripture of bebop saxophone, alto giant Charlie Parker has been the subject of hundreds of tribute albums since his death, far too young, 64 years ago, as Ted Panken points out in the liner notes to Bird at 100. For the latest disc honoring Parker, three of the finest inheritors of the Bird tradition shared the stage at Smoke Jazz Club in New York in August for shows celebrating what would have been the honoree’s 99th birthday.
It’s partly cutting contest, partly joyful invocation of the spirit of Bird, as Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson, and Gary Bartz variously take solo flights and offer three-part harmony readings of Parker’s dizzying melodies. Among the album’s greatest pleasures are the pieces with the simplest foundations, including “The Hymn.” The speedy gospel-tinged blues has the alto men sound the theme unaccompanied before the rhythm section comes in to drive roaring solos; Herring’s ends with a figure repeated by Watson at the start of his improvisation, and Bartz’s heady outing cues extended open space for drummer Carl Allen.
“Yardbird Suite” is here, of course. It’s a relaxed version, at 11 minutes the disc’s longest track, with the saxophonists trading off on the sections and giving the bass player some. Allen, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and pianist David Kikoski groove hard here and throughout. Each of the leaders gets a ballad feature too. Herring is alternately elegant and sultry, leaning hard into the long notes on “Lover Man”; Watson fronts “These Foolish Things” with a series of fortunate twists, sans band; and Bartz, too, goes it alone at the start of “April in Paris” before injecting new life into the old, familiar melody. It all amounts to a frequently thrilling saxopalooza. Sequel, anyone?~Philip Booth

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