Word: sax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLAKEY WITH THE ORIGINAL JAZZ MESSENGERS (Jazz Odyssey). Drummer Blakey was the spark that lit up several small groups in the '50s. Here, reissued, is a particularly successful set, with one of the finest Blakey combos-Horace Silver on piano, Hank Mobley on tenor sax, Donald Byrd on trumpet and Doug Watkins on bass. They play hard-bop tunes (two of which are by now familiar Silver compositions), while Blakey drives them on with a flavoring of calypso or a tight break to emphasize the beat. On InfraRae and Hank's Symphony, his throbbing rolls and cymbal cadences...
...Beach, Calif., the Crusaders have plenty to say in this album and plenty of "chops" (technique) to say it with. Their musical message lies in today's mainstream -a blend of hard-rock rhythms, funky chords and uptempo bustling. Wayne Henderson is on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor sax; the rhythm section includes Joe Sample's piano. They punch out Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo, move briskly on the winning Native Dancer and the fleeting Impressions. Their Eleanor Rigby is unusually muscular but, oddly enough, moves along with grace...
...definite views of modern jazz piano. His music is filled with gently dissonant surgings, expressive rippling lines that are as romantic as they are atonal, and intuitive, crosshatched rhythms that emerge and then break off. Helping him project this engaging moodiness are John Gilmore's thin-edged tenor sax, Bobby Hutcherson's delicate vibes, the attentive probings of Bassist Richard Davis and the irregular cymbals of Drummer Joe Chambers. The group's finest moments come in The Groits, which, despite its ugly name, consists of lovely integrated weavings of Hill's almost Monkish chords, Hutcherson...
...Arranger Pearson, whose previous records featured smaller groups, has gathered 15 solid players in order to amplify his musical ideas. Straight Up and Down is a tidy blend of high-flying exuberance and smooth delivery (note the trumpet's sassy quote of Sweet Georgia Brown and the baritone sax's sly paraphrase of Once I Had a Secret Love). While Mississippi Dip is a blues to be taken lithely, A Taste of Honey switches tempos faster than the foot can follow, building to heated ensemble crescendos behind Frank Foster's tenor and Jerry Dodgion's flute...
...sniffing out incredible possibilities and instantly realizing them. His guitar produces the sounds of many other instruments: sometimes it is a percussion instrument rapping out the beat while the drums fly elsewhere as they often do, sometimes Beck sounds like John Handy blowing high-pitched squeals out of his sax, sometimes Beck's guitar sounds like a piano, a bell, and once, unforgettably, a wailing harp (on 'Shapes of things...