Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jazz piano is so glutted with talent these days that it's hard to get through a week without another new prodigy popping up somewhere. With flying-fingered young virtuosos like Marcus Roberts, Cyrus Chestnut and Eric Reed trying to outdo one another on showy new solo albums and jostling for attention in nightclubs from Bourbon Street to Greenwich Village, competition on the keyboards is more intense than it has been in years. In the midst of all this musical gunslinging, it would be easy to overlook Jacky Terrasson, a newcomer from Paris. But that would be a mistake...
...Lord is there, in a version that transcends even Jones' rapturous solo. Steal Away and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot are played with a kind of hushed delicacy, much as written, although Haden says there were "a couple of times we looked at each other and said, 'Forgive us, Lord, for that flatted 13th.'" They blow away all the encrusted sanctimony from We Shall Overcome, rediscovering the splendor of its pride, and find a perfect ecumenical grace in Danny Boy. "Initially I was a little apprehensive about the format," Jones admits. "We were unsure as to how people would accept spirituals...
...before her death. The new album is a mix of new and old material. Several of the Spanish tracks--such as Bidi Bidi Bom Bom--are remixed versions of songs that were already hits in the Latin market. Some of the best new tracks--the spirited mariachi song Tu Solo Tu and a soulfully giddy duet with David Byrne called God's Child--were recorded for, then dropped from, the sound track for the movie Don Juan DeMarco. Says Brennan: "I bet the producers of that movie regret that...
...typical adventure movie is a big, gaudy lie. It says life is a battle of one man, armed with only wit and grit, against a hostile universe. This romantic, existential notion does a disservice to the way most people live and work. We aren't solo flyers or secret agents. We are a squadron of team players dependent on our colleagues and increasingly on our machines to get us through our jobs. Often, because of those machines or those colleagues--or ourselves--we fail. And sometimes the bravest thing we can do is react quickly, boldly, gracefully to the failures...
Young's 1972 album, Harvest, was one of his biggest, earliest solo hits, featuring the No. 1 song Heart of Gold. In 1979, working with the band Crazy Horse, Young released Live Rust, a commanding concert album that's among the finest ever made. Since then he has drifted through many styles, from the cold, synthesizer-laden Trans (1982) through the bland blues-bar rock of This Note's for You (1988) to the sublime country pop of Harvest Moon (1992). His songs are at once rawly personal and poetically empathetic. He never follows trends, only his gut. "I just...