Solo, Duo & Trio (豆瓣)

表演者: Randy Weston
流派: 爵士
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2000-09-12
出版者: Milestone
条形码: 0025218478526

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　　Randy Weston's distinctive compositions and pianism have long mined the music's African sources to enrich the idiom. This CD presents Weston at the very beginnings of his recording career, combining his first two LPs. The earliest is a selection of eight Cole Porter tunes from 1954, played in duet with his regular partner, Sam Gill, a little-known bassist who provides solid a... (展开全部) 　　Randy Weston's distinctive compositions and pianism have long mined the music's African sources to enrich the idiom. This CD presents Weston at the very beginnings of his recording career, combining his first two LPs. The earliest is a selection of eight Cole Porter tunes from 1954, played in duet with his regular partner, Sam Gill, a little-known bassist who provides solid and sympathetic foundations. The second combines a 1955 trio session, with Gill and Art Blakey on drums, and a series of solos from 1956. The most creative members of Weston's generation were strongly influenced by Thelonious Monk, and none more so than Weston. It was a thoroughly positive influence, though, and Weston was beginning to shape it into his own distinctive approach. It leads to the deliberated harmonic explorations and the acute sense of rhythmic displacement that he employs in probing the standards here, rethinking them at their structural core and adding thoughtfully placed splashes of often dissonant keyboard color. The trio blues "Zulu" is already a sign of Weston's later-developed interests in polyrhythms, and it shows a striking kinship with another great pianist of the time, Herbie Nichols.
　　From 1954 to 1956, these are the first recordings
　　from one of the grandmasters of African American
　　perspective, a genius of the acoustic piano, and
　　one highly exceptional composer. These milestones
　　are the debut recordings of Randy Weston, and they
　　are a special treat for anyone who loves great
　　Music in general, and Jazz in
　　particular.
　　With the recordings of Thelonious Monk, Herbie
　　Nichols, Cecil Taylor and Horace Silver, SOLO,
　　DUO, AND TRIO features some of the most epic,
　　versatile pianistry to emerge from the 1950s.
　　Listen to Weston's hip-walking take on "Sweet
　　Sue" (the spirit call of drummer Art Blakey
　　forecasting the rituals to come), and associate
　　the subtle dance and finger-popping sway with
　　a new kid on the block!
　　Too, Weston's originality as a composer and
　　soloist is already intact. Listen to the
　　infectious serenade of "Pam's Waltz", or the
　　warrior's stroll of "Zulu", and you hear a
　　musicmaker of the highest order. Employing
　　intervals usually associated with Monk
　　(especially with the "Rootie Tootie"-
　　inspired cadence opening "Zulu"), Weston
　　wields all tools with a lyrical grasp
　　all his own.
　　Listening further to Weston in solo
　　performance, or his inspired duos with
　　bassist Sam Gill interpreting Cole
　　Porter, you are always in the presence
　　of a highly original artist. It is a
　　humble, forthright artistry which would
　　evolve -over the decades- into
　　the towering trailblazing which
　　would conceive UHURU AFRIKA, THE
　　HEALERS, AFRICAN COOKBOOK, and
　　other bulwarks of globe-crossing
　　Black genius.
　　Weston's jubilant stride continues
　　today through epic recordings such
　　as IN THE SPIRITS OF OUR ANCESTORS
　　and ZEP TEPI. His is a momentous
　　stride full of character, dignity,
　　and Wisdom's might.
　　Hear how it all began.

曲目 · · · · · ·

1. Sweet Sue, Just You - Randy Weston, Harris, Will J.
2. Pam's Waltz - Randy Weston, Weston, Randy
3. Solemn Meditation - Randy Weston, Gill, Sam
4. Again - Randy Weston, Cochran, Dorcas
5. Zulu - Randy Weston, Weston, Randy
6. Little Girl Blue - Randy Weston, Hart, Lorenz
7. We'll Be Together Again - Randy Weston, Fischer, Carl
8. Softness - Randy Weston, Weston, Randy
9. Lover - Randy Weston, Hart, Lorenz
10. If You Could See Me Now - Randy Weston, Dameron, Tadd
11. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Randy Weston, Porter, Cole
12. I Love Her - Randy Weston,
13. Night and Day - Randy Weston, Porter, Cole
14. I Get a Kick Out of You - Randy Weston, Porter, Cole
15. In the Still of the Night - Randy Weston, Porter, Cole
16. Get Out of Town - Randy Weston, Porter, Cole
17. Just One of Those Things - Randy Weston, Porter, Cole
18. I've Got You Under My Skin - Randy Weston, Porter, Cole