Bill Cunliffe Sextet - Live at Rocco (2002)

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Title: Live at Rocco
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Azica [AJD72221]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 68:22
Total Size: 362 MB(+3%) | 161 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. Ain't Nothin' Nu (Jones) - 7:38
02. Kingston (Cunliffe) - 10:37
03. Lakeside (Cunliffe) - 7:49
04. Unknown Flowers (Cunliffe) - 9:30
05. Hope (Cunliffe) - 7:48
06. Quirk of Fate (Cunliffe) - 7:02
07. Crepuscule with Nellie (Monk) - 5:08
08. Fubar (Cunliffe) - 12:50
Bill Cunliffe Sextet - Live at Rocco (2002)

personnel :

Bill Cunliffe - piano
Clay Jenkins - trumpet
Chuck Manning - tenor saxophone
Alex Iles - trombone
Jeff D'Angelo - bass
Joe La Barbera - drums
with special guest:
Holly Hofmann - flute

Los Angeles-based Bill Cunliffe has long had a strong reputation for his fine piano solos. This CD features him as a bandleader, arranger, and composer too. Cunliffe heads a top-notch sextet/septet also featuring trumpeter Clay Jenkins, Chuck Manning on tenor, trombonist Alex Iles, bassist Jeff D'Angelo, drummer Joe LaBarbera, and guest flutist Holly Hofmann. The band performs Thad Jones' "Ain't Nothin' Nu," Thelonious Monk's "Crepuscule With Nellie," and six Cunliffe originals. The music is advanced hard bop (or post-bop), the arrangements are just unpredictable enough to keep one guessing, and the solos are consistently rewarding. Bill Cunliffe has recorded one rewarding CD after another since the mid-'90s. This disc continues the trend.~Scott Yanow