Rosewood [Original recording remastered]

Rosewood [Original recording remastered]

ASIN: B00000ADGC

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The year was 1977, and plugged-in jazz fusion was the local tongue in the mainstream jazz world. But trumpeter Woody Shaw, who'd by then done stints with Eric Dolphy, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, and others, breezed onto the Columbia jazz roster with this powerhouse recording. With a raft of Latin-tinged numbers, Shaw showed why he was the trumpet's leading mainstream proponent. Shaw's tone was ultraconfident, hard when it ought to be and then flowingly loose elsewhere. Shaw's bands for this session, which range from a quintet to a 15-piece, all embrace a wide flange of expertise, from fast, albeit rounded, rhythms to occasional flights outward by Joe Henderson and Shaw himself. Sure, some of these tunes sound dated, as if their architecture was in a struggle against fusion's melodies. But in this reissue, which on CD draws three cuts from Shaw's later For Sure! session, one can hear the roots of the acoustic jazz rebirth that came some years later with the burgeoning "young lions" scene. --Andrew Bartlett

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