Gerard Presencer - Platypus (1998)

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Artist: Gerard Presencer
Title: Platypus
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: Linn Records [AKD 079]
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Fusion
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 54:50
Total Size: 367 MB(+3%) | 130 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1.Still Moanin' 6:23
2.Blue-Eyed Boy 7:15
3.Crimplene Lover 5:29
4.Married Woman 8:14
5.Platypus 4:38
6.Afterthought 7:17
7.In The Air 7:32
8.Green-Eyed Girl 7:58

personnel :

Bass – Andrew Cleyndert
Drums – Jeremy Stacey
Flugelhorn – Gerard Presencer
Guitar – John Paricelli
Percussion – Chris Fletcher
Piano – Jason Rebello

In the early 1970s, different jazz artists had different ways of acknowledging funk and soul. Miles Davis, John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Larry Coryell, and Chick Corea's Return to Forever played outright fusion; their music was an innovative, forward-thinking mixture of jazz, rock, and funk. But at Creed Taylor's CTI Records, the electric jazz of Freddie Hubbard, Joe Farrell, and others wasn't really fusion -- CTI had more of a "post-bop meets funk and pop" outlook. And similarly, Gerard Presencer's 1997 recording Platypus combines jazz and funk without being outright fusion; on this melodic CD, the flugelhornist sounds like a post-bopper who has started incorporating funk rhythms and using electric instruments. Presencer's appealing tone is greatly influenced by Hubbard (with hints of Miles Davis), and original pieces like "In the Air" and "Still Moanin'" wouldn't have been out of place on a CTI recording that Taylor produced in the early 1970s. Platypus (which employs Jason Rebello on keyboards, John Paricelli on guitar, Andrew Cleyndert on bass, and Jeremy Stacey on drums) isn't innovative or remarkable, but it's definitely enjoyable -- and you have to admire the fact that Presencer wrote everything on the CD instead of inundating listeners with overdone standards.~Alex Henderson

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