Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake/William Parker
Blue Winter
(Eremite, 2005)
Tribute to the undersung Chi-town tenorist, who died last month. A MOJO messageboarder writes...
For an artist with a career stretching back to the '60s, Fred Anderson has a profile so low as to be non-existent. Forsaking a life on the road to run his Chicago hot spot bar, Anderson received the shallow end of the hero-sub that is mainstream jazz music coverage. That you, Joe Average music listener, have been robbed of the singular joy of basking in the warm-as-life tones emitting from his tenor sax highlights the inequities of consumerist-driven publication policies. As one of the founders of the AACM, Fred should rate a beefy footnote in history at least, but judging by the pleasure to be had by bathing in his just-post-bop freefire output the consideration of a historical rewrite may be in order. This double disc outing on the always-interesting Eremite label captures the artist in his element in a major way. Recorded with the utmost attention to detail (atypical for a label as often interested in the sound of the room as the sound of the artist) it blazes and burns with a subtle intensity I've not known from a contemporary jazz recording in some while. Consisting of four long, self-titled tracks/movements spread across two discs (one on the first, the remaining on the latter; track IV is streamed here), with the amazing rhythmic backing of giants-in-their-own-right Parker and Drake, the only option available to humans is surrender. If you're going to listen to only one free jazz disc this aeon... well...
Scorpiomoon
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 12/07/2010
Further Listening
Fred Anderson Quartet – Birdhouse (Okka, 1999)
Fred Anderson – Fred Anderson & DKV Trio (Okka, 1998)
Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake – Back Together Again (Thrill Jockey, 2004)
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