Enrico Rava New York Days (2008)

The Cannonball Adderley Sextet - In New York (1962) {2008 Riverside} [Keepnews Collection Complete Series] (Item #18of27)
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© 1962, 2008 Concord / Riverside | 0888072305038
Jazz / Hard Bop / Soul Jazz / Saxophone

Orrin Keepnews' commentary (from his new liner notes): “Just a few weeks after Yusef [Lateef] was added, a booking at the Village Vanguard was used to bring about the recording that is reissued here. Considering how long the four original band members had been working together, it is quite amazing how quickly and how well the two newcomers fit in. The only real difference to be noted between this and previous Adderley band albums might be the absence of any newly written material by either of the Adderley brothers. But two of the half-dozen selections are by Lateef and one by Zawinul. The final number, one of Sam Jones’s rare writer credits, was for quite awhile the band’s standard way of closing each set in a club, but the decision here was to give it a rare full-length performance.”

Charlie Parker - Story On Dial Vol. 2 - New York Days (2016) {Japan SHM-CD UCCU-5770 rec 1947}
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© 1947, 2016 Dial / Universal Japan | UCCU-5770
Jazz / Bop / Saxophone

The Kansas City alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, who was to post-second-world-war jazz what Louis Armstrong had been to its first wave, is as likely to be remembered today for his heroin habit and early death than for his exquisite and melodically stunning improvising. If that era's jazz is like journalism, Parker was its acutely observant war reporter, who kept coming back from the front of his own exploding world with new stories to tell.

Today, in France, they are at least three pianists to have this talent of jazz musician and composer for great formation: Jean-Pierre Como, Antoine Herve and Herve Sellin. If you liked “L'âme soeur” of the first and “Road Movie” of the second, then, inevitably, you will like this “Marciac New York Express”. The compositions remarkable, are inspired (the four movements are connected with masterliness), and never fall into the repetition. The musicians are given some to heart joy: Stephan Guillaume with the clarinet and sax soprano, Stéphane Chausson and Sylvain Beuf with the sax tenor, Claude Egéa with the trumpet, Gueorgui Kornazov with the trombone, Michael Felberbaum with the guitar, Stéphan Caracci with the vibraphone, and the rhythmic made up one of Bruno Rousselet (double bass) and Karl Jannuska (drums) is at this remarkable point.

2 Blues For Cecil features three legends of modern improvised music, trumpeter Enrico Rava, bassist William Parker and drummer Andrew Cyrille. Rava and Cyrille are among the elders of improvised music with their careers going back to the 1960s whereas Parker rose to prominence during New York's loft jazz era of the 1970s. The three musicians share one major link in their respective careers. Namely, they all have, at various times, been members of Unit or other ensembles of another legend, the late pianist Cecil Taylor. Enrico Rava, William Parker and Andrew Cyrille first performed together as a trio in tribute to Cecil Taylor, with Taylor himself present, at the Whitney museum in April 2016 as part of an exhibit/program under the heading "Open Plan: Cecil Taylor." 2 Blues For Cecil was recorded on February 1 and 2 at Studio Ferber in Paris following the trio's concert on December 31, 2020 under the heading "Tribute to Cecil Taylor" as part of the Sons D'Hiver festival in Paris.