As Serenity Approaches

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Descripción del producto Roberts has a way of letting his technique get in the way. The man’s always showing off how many notes he can play, rarely letting the audience get inside the spaces between them. Anyone who can get past the opening take on “Cherokee” is a brave, patient soul. But Roberts is more Jelly Roll Morton than Thelonious Monk, anyway, a stride fetishist who cut his teeth playing in postbop bands (most notably, Wynton Marsalis’s). Indeed, it’s Marsalis’s cameo that makes this record worth the price of admission. When he shows up laying down some old-school muted horn on Morton’s “King Porter Stomp,” you wonder why he hides that sly humor and warmth on his own recordings. But this is Roberts’ coming-out party: His take on Duke Ellington’s “Creole Stomp” will break your heart, and his “Where or When” will put it back together again. –Robert Wilonsky Tienda Roberts has a way of letting his technique get in the way. The man’s always showing off how many notes he can play, rarely letting the audience get inside the spaces between them. Anyone who can get past the opening take on “Cherokee” is a brave, patient soul. But Roberts is more Jelly Roll Morton than Thelonious Monk, anyway, a stride fetishist who cut his teeth playing in postbop bands (most notably, Wynton Marsalis’s). Indeed, it’s Marsalis’s cameo that makes this record worth the price of admission. When he shows up laying down some old-school muted horn on Morton’s “King Porter Stomp,” you wonder why he hides that sly humor and warmth on his own recordings. But this is Roberts’ coming-out party: His take on Duke Ellington’s “Creole Stomp” will break your heart, and his “Where or When” will put it back together again. –Robert Wilonsky
Review New Orleans pianist Marcus Roberts plays with warmth of blues feeling, profluent ideas rooted in jazz/blues piano history, beautiful sound, and absolute instrumental mastery. He’s a precocious artist who seems to perform for his own sake rather than the audience’s, yet without self-consciousness, and it is a privilege to hear him employ mood, tempo, melody, and harmony en route to a state of poetic placidity. On his third RCA outing he performs solo and in duet settings with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, pianist Ellis Marsalis, and three other searching musicians at the Big Easy’s St. Joseph Cathedral. — © Frank John Hadley 1993 — From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD Ver más
Peso
3.68 Onzas
Dimensiones
5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 pulgadas
Fabricante es Novus
La calificación que le dan a As Serenity Approaches, 7 usuarios es de 5.0 sobre 5 estrellas.