George Cables Trio - A Letter To Dexter (2006) 320 kbps+CD Rip

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Artist: George Cables Trio
Title: A Letter To Dexter
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Kind of Blue Records [KOB 10006]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 67:35
Total Size: 436 MB(+3%) | 161 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01 Catalonian Nights
02 Three O'clock In The Morning
03 Cheese Cake
04 Polkadots And Moonbeams
05 Tanya
06 Fried Bananas
07 Body & Soul
08 I Told You So
09 Who Can I Turn To
10 LTD (Long Tall Dexter)
11 Round About Midnight

George Cables Trio - A Letter To Dexter (2006) 320 kbps+CD Rip

Pianist George Cables, who spent some of his formative years accompanying saxophone great Dexter Gordon, pays tribute to the man with a nicely varied collection of tunes written by or associated with Gordon, A Letter to Dexter. His trio is filled out by fellow Gordon alumni Rufus Reid on bass and drummer Victor Lewis, both of them now giants in their own right. Cables has a decorous and romantic playing style, and combined with a rhythm section as mighty as this one, the results should be magnificent. And so they are, at least most of the time. Unfortunately, there are occasional moments when the rhythmic thread is lost and the groove falters. This usually happens during piano solos: listen carefully, for example, to the way the bass and drums wander off-groove during Cables' first chorus on "Fried Bananas." But most of the album is a delight. The trio's take on the Gordon composition "Cheesecake" is powerful and relentlessly swinging; "I Told You So," a Cables original, has a wonderfully lilting Caribbean flavor, and Cables' solo rendition of "'Round About Midnight" is another treat, an unusual and highly intelligent interpretation characterized by staccato phrasing and pleasingly Monk-ish touches of dissonance. Also noteworthy is Reid's gorgeous bass solo on "Polkadots and Moonbeams." Recommended.~ Rick Anderson

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