Fly

Artist: Fly
Label: Savoy Jazz
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 795041732521
EAN: 0795041732521
ASIN: B0001AP0FO

Release Date: 2004-02-10

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Hippest Music I know of (Mostly Jazz)

Tracks:

Child's Play
Fly Mr. Freakjar
Stark
JJ
State of the Union
Emergence/Resurgence
Todas Las Cosas Se Van
Piano Tune
Spanish Castle Magic
Lone

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Customer Reviews:

Ballard's Album.......2006-02-16

Jeff is the leader on this disc, and that's why Mark's playing may seem a little tentative. It's an awesome disc from start to finish, but don't buy it if you expect to hear Mark as a leader. His playing is still amazing but Jeff's playing is the key here. When he handed me the disc when I last saw him, it was evident who the leader was. He was so proud. It's a really fun disc.

I just don't get Mark Turner..........2005-02-07

I appreciate understated playing, but it has a time and place, and Turner never seems to leave that place. With Grenedier and Ballard blasting out propulsive rhythms, it almost becomes comical how Turner seems to sleep over the top of them throughout this album. You take a Potter, or a Carter, or a Redman and they'd be in the frey ripping it up. Which is not to say that Turner needs to sound like anyone else, but his playing, on this album in particular, makes him sound tentative and not really at home in a trio format. I think you need a far more dynamic player to pull a sax trio off. My two cents, anyway...

Spectacular.......2005-02-07

This album is great.
Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier make up one of the best rhythm sections out there, my other favorite being Dave King and Reid Anderson of the Bad Plus. They are dynamic, fun, interesting.
Mark Turner is stellar. His playing is beautiful, strong, clean, a bit understated amidst the great rhythm heavy sound.
Along with "Give", this is my absolute favorite modern Jazz CD. The music is accessible, with great rhythm. It has a not-too-refined sound, a bit jangled yet absolutely controlled and intended, that keeps it alive, fun and full of surprises.
This CD gets my strongest recommendation. I can't wait to hear more from these guys.

very good.......2004-03-07

very good jazz, bass and drums band. very dynamic, percussive with beats that carry feeling and melodies that carry beats. high skill and technique yet they seem to carry across some subdued feeling without contrived styles or being blue/cool, etc

even though i am somewhat new to jazz i can tell that this is very good

Stunning Trio Album.......2004-03-06

Fly is the first great jazz album I've heard this year. Mark Turner has a beautiful, rich sound and Larry Grenadier, Mehldau's longtime bassist provides a powerful backbone to piece after piece but I expected that from these 2 musicians whose rich tones I have long appreciated. It was Jeff Ballard's drumming that stunned me. I had never heard him before but I hope to hear a lot more from him in the future. He is simply brilliant on the album.
Sonically the album is produced to outstanding effect. While I love Turner's earlier albums from Warner Brothers there was always a muted and somewhat compressed quality to them. Savoy Jazz deserves applause for the open soundstage, and fantastic quality of the recording. If you have an audiophile quality system you will easily compare the quality of the recording to the brilliant HighNote CDs and many of the BlueNote and ECM recordings. Turn it up, close your eyes and you could be in some intimate club, it's that good.
Buy the album - it is sonically rich, funky, addictive, beautifully recorded and will hopefully be followed by many more by three artists at the top of their game.

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