Outside Beauty

Donal Fox & David Murray - Ugly Beauty (1995) {Evidence ECD 22131-2}
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© 1995 Evidence Music | ECD 22131-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Piano / Tenor Saxophone / Bass Clarinet

In avant-garde jazz, inside and outside playing have a way of complimenting each other. On Ugly Beauty, which finds Boston pianist Donal Fox forming a cohesive duo with tenor saxman/bass clarinetist David Murray, the inside and outside are fine companions. Some of Murray's playing on this collection of live and studio recordings from 1993 is quite melodic, and the fact that his playing is as lyrical as it is on the Thelonious Monk classics "Ugly Beauty" and "'Round Midnight" makes his dissonant, chaotic statements on "Golden Ladders," "Hope Scope," and "Becca's Ballad" seem all the more dramatic and meaningful. The inside/outside contrasts keep things unpredictable on this rewarding album, which Fox and Murray can both be proud of.

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1983 album including five bonus tracks. Commercial success had finally arrived for The Tubes with the release of Completion Backward Principle. The rock radio airplay and Top 40 success generated by that release set the stage for a return to the studio with producer David Foster attempting to recapture the magic for Outside/Inside. The band did not disappoint as the album came screaming out of the gate with "She's a Beauty", the biggest hit the band would ever have. The single went Top 10 and was a #1 rock record so the band now had both sides of the FM/AM dial fully covered.