Delving deep in the newly minted online cuts.
To kick off your Saturday pick out for one a track from the upcoming all-star Peter Bernstein release out in late-September. It has the big selling point of having Brad Mehldau on it. But not only is Brad, who dazzled Pottering about with tenor of our times Chris and chums on Eagle's Point earlier this year, here. But cast a look at the photo - ffs - it's Miles Davis We Want Miles drummer Al Foster. One of the most stylish drummers anywhere - here too on Better Angels track 'Perpetual Pendulum' issued by US jazz indie Smoke Sessions - an offshoot of New York club Smoke. A label that keeps it real by issuing typically steeped in the right kinds of credible jazz traditions that often have as a jumping off point the spot where the late period Blanchardian guise of the Jazz Messengers left off, Smoke Sessions has a penchant for the sort of jazz the Young Lions of the 1980s were not averse to playing.
Smokin'
Recent faves on the label include the fabulous Vincent Herring flavoured Soul Jazz that simply Pelts along - pun intended. Such sounds are as hip as anything. And they are a world away from all the meretricious nu jazz fluff littering the scene that often masquerades as earth shattering among the pseudery.
How your arts differ from your elbow
Elsewhere in the 10 check out the monstrously compelling Larry Grenadier riff - Grenadier of course the bassist in the classic Mehldau 1990s era 'The Art of' trio - on Emaginario's 'De Raíz.'
A yen for yearning
'Perpetual Pendulum' has the Glasperian Vicente Archer on bass. Tunes on this Smoke Sessions release are this lead-off track, a Bernstein original, 'Ditty for Dewey,' the 1930s J Fred Coots standard 'You Go to My Head' covered by the likes of kindred spirit Irish guitar icon Louis Stewart down the years and the Velvet Fog's 'Born to Be Blue' on the first side of the vinyl. On the reverse are title track 'Better Angels,' 'Hazel Eyes,' 'No Problem' and 'Lament' . The tune that's in the list is a yearning noodle strewn mid tempo saunter that allows a lot of expression in its passion. It is classic in the best sense - you want to hear it again and again. We will be making a mental note to return to it regularly as the tune uncannily lodges itself ever reliably in all plasticity in even the most winningly recalcitrant of battlingly sluggish brains.
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