Jerry Weldon - Well-Done! (2008)

Tracklist

01. State of the Union
02. On a Misty Night
03. The Easy Out
04. To Marie
05. Tangerine
06. Mona Lisa
07. Filthy McNasty
08. Do You Know a Good Thing?



The high-water mark of Well-Done! is Jerry Weldon's rousing, up-tempo cover of "Filthy McNasty." Barking out four bars of Horace Silver's angular, no-nonsense line, Weldon sounds as if he can bulldoze anything that gets in his way. The tenor saxophonist's single-mindedness is exhilarating. Subsequent to the entrance of Hammond B-3 organist Kyle Koehler's pumping bass line and drummer Jason Brown's sturdy beat, he takes fifteen smart, frenetic choruses, pushing and pulling phrases into shape so as to make each chorus stand on it own.

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