Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deejay and producer has established himself as an underground star in England's insurgent "Jungle" scene--a musical form featuring resonant bass lines and expressive, sometimes relentless percussion. But his new CD, Timeless, is a challenge to the boundaries of this still nascent music. Mixing elements of techno, jazz and soothing ambient music, Goldie's compositions defiantly slip the grasp of any one genre and instead slide back and forth between high-energy passages that make you want to dance and quiet interludes that make you want to assume the lotus position and meditate--or at least daydream a little...
...himself as an underground star in England's insurgent "Jungle" scene--a musical form featuring resonant bass lines and expressive, sometimes relentless percussion. Goldie's new CD, "Timeless," is a challenge to the boundaries of this still nascent music, notes TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Mixing elements of techno, jazz and soothing ambient music, Goldie's compositions defiantly slip the grasp of any one genre and instead slide back and forth between high-energy passages that make you want to dance and quiet interludes that make you want to assume the lotus position and meditate--or at least daydream...
CHARLIE PARKER IS ONE BIRD you can't catch. Parker, who died in 1955, was a jazz innovator, a sax master, a wildly talented instrumentalist who could improvise his way through songs with an easy daring and offhand profundity. Saxophonists who pay too literal tribute to Bird's work miss its spark and point--its emotionality is linked to its originality...
Without resorting to mimicry or sacrificing their personalities, the trio capture the core intelligence and essential sweetness of Parker's playing. The performances are disciplined; the song interpretations lithe, direct and largely unadorned. But the sense of love is palpable: love for Bird, his music and jazz in general. With Bird's originals, one is overwhelmed with his fierce creativity; with this trio's covers, one is caught up in their fierce devotion. It's not Bird, but it flies...
...TERRASSON Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note). Seated at the piano, this 30-year-old Parisian import doesn't just play a song; he seizes it, takes it through his own looking glass and refracts it in ways that squeeze fresh thrills out of old Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter jazz standards. Terrasson's debut served notice that here is a star in the making...