Animation - Imagination

Animation - Imagination

Animation - Imagination

ASIN: B00000HYBM

Editorial Reviews
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Word is that when Blue Note Records urged trumpeter Tim Hagans to dig in for a neo-drum & bass session, the brass maestro immersed himself in Roni Size's oeuvre. The sprinting palpitations of Size's music is certainly all over Hagans's Animation, as is the oft-neglected electric 1970s-era Miles Davis. Despite influence, Hagans's conception is sharp and fresh. His trumpet playing reaches far higher than Miles, topping out in fast runs that maintain a tonal fullness that sounds more colored by free jazz than by bop. The acoustic musicians who back Hagans include Billy Kilson and Ira Coleman, each of whom plays with tight, crackling intensity. As for the drum & bass elements, they're certainly reminiscent of On the Corner, with smeary electronic lines and crunchy guitar fronting layered beat samples and breathless speed. Some might associate Hagans's methodology with that of Ben Neill or Bob Green's Grassy Knoll or even Amon Tobin, but Hagans is the most clearly jazzed of the bunch. And as his tribute to fellow brassman Freddie Hubbard, Hagans is a supreme technician and inventive improviser. --Andrew Bartlett

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Animation - Imagination
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Amazing
  • Amazing CD
  • An awesome adventure, this would be in Mile's CD changer.
  • Trumpeter Tim Hagans melds Miles Davis with Drum-n-Bass
  • Shades of Miles in the 80's
 Animation - Imagination
Tim Hagans
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000HYBM
Release Date: 1999-01-26

Tracks:

  1. The Original Drum And Bass
  2. Animation/imagination
  3. Slo Mo
  4. 28 If
  5. Snakes Kin
  6. Far West
  7. Hud Doyle
  8. Love's Lullaby
  9. I Heard You Were Dropped
  10. Are You Threatening Me?
  11. French Girl
  12. Trumpet Sandwich
  13. What They Don't Tell You (About Jazz)

Amazon.com

Word is that when Blue Note Records urged trumpeter Tim Hagans to dig in for a neo-drum & bass session, the brass maestro immersed himself in Roni Size's oeuvre. The sprinting palpitations of Size's music is certainly all over Hagans's Animation, as is the oft-neglected electric 1970s-era Miles Davis. Despite influence, Hagans's conception is sharp and fresh. His trumpet playing reaches far higher than Miles, topping out in fast runs that maintain a tonal fullness that sounds more colored by free jazz than by bop. The acoustic musicians who back Hagans include Billy Kilson and Ira Coleman, each of whom plays with tight, crackling intensity. As for the drum & bass elements, they're certainly reminiscent of On the Corner, with smeary electronic lines and crunchy guitar fronting layered beat samples and breathless speed. Some might associate Hagans's methodology with that of Ben Neill or Bob Green's Grassy Knoll or even Amon Tobin, but Hagans is the most clearly jazzed of the bunch. And as his tribute to fellow brassman Freddie Hubbard, Hagans is a supreme technician and inventive improviser. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Amazing.......2006-10-28

What can I say except that I was blown away from the first listen. Otherworldly only begins to describe this modern masterpiece. I had to check the recording date to be certain that this wasn't remastered 1970's era jazz. Just wonderful.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing CD.......2000-03-29

I have not heard anything new in jazz in some time, but this CD blew my socks off. While some may argue that it is merely an extension of what Miles was doing in the 70s, it goes much further. This CD has the potential to reach a much wider audience than most other jazz CDs, but I feel that poor marketing on the part of Blue Note and prejudice might hold it back. It is very rare that there is such a fine CD that pleases the masses without sacrificing or watering down the on the most important aspect, improvisation.

5 out of 5 stars An awesome adventure, this would be in Mile's CD changer........1999-06-08

The perfect blend between Miles' 70's sounds and the sounds in the wee hours of a deafening eccentric desert rave. Must be heard.

4 out of 5 stars Trumpeter Tim Hagans melds Miles Davis with Drum-n-Bass.......1999-05-22

Fresh and interesting fusion of be-bop and drum-n-bass. The first and last tracks represent a more straight forward jazz sensibility and sound, with the rest of the album exploring what happens when a drum-n-bass collides with Tim's trumpet. Produced by jazz performer Bob Belden who also plays piano on a few tunes.

3 out of 5 stars Shades of Miles in the 80's.......1999-02-27

Just a quick sample on three or four numbers does not justify the full value of the CD.Jim is a great jazz trumpet player. I would to hear more straight ahead jazz, with less electronic backing.

Jazz Music:

  1. Another Voyage [Original recording remastered]
  2. Art of the Duo
  3. Astro Boy Blues
  4. At Last: the Very Best of [Import]
  5. Benny Carter Songbook (Tribute)
  6. Close to You [Import]
  7. Dark of Light/Dance of Magic
  8. Dig
  9. Dinner and Dance
  10. Duende

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