One More: Music of Thad Jones

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Ipo Recordings
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD

UPC: 675754802226
EAN: 0675754802226
ASIN: B0007WQHSA

Release Date: 2005-03-29

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Tracks:

Subtle Rebuttle
Thad's Pad
Kids Are Pretty People
One More
Mean What You Say
Child Is Born
Bossa Nova Ova
The Waltz You Swang For Me
H&T Blues
Consummation
The Farewell
Monk's Mood

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Customer Reviews:

Never Too Much.......2006-12-17

It's not entirely clear to me why this tribute to Thad's music and charts required a 50% downsizing of the original Jones-Lewis orchestra, but the diminished firepower is made up for by the clever orchestrations and the inherent substance of Jones' music itself. A harmonically advanced player and first-rate composer-arranger-leader, Thad for many years made many jazz followers marvel at his patience while playing 2nd trumpet in Basie's band night after night, limited to minimal solo work (most of it given to Joe Newman). He never got his due and probably was the last to know his own originality and mastery in all areas of music--practically a latter-day Duke Ellington.

One advantage of the smaller ensemble is more solo time for the soloists, most of whom have been heard from far too little in recent years and, judging by their contributions here, for no good reason. (I thought Jimmy Owens had disappeared, but he's playing like a pollwinner--he'd have to, since he's largely taking on the Thad Jones' trumpet role.) When it came to meeting listeners' expectations while simultaneously answering the needs of the musicians, Thad had few peers as a composer-arranger.

The ensemble choruses are executed with the deft precision you'd expect of these professionals. The program itself testifies to Thad's inclusive genius--from high-spirited, infectious swingers to light and spritely woodwind motives to the haunting, deeply affecting beauty of Thad's immortal "A Child Is Born." Definitely one of the better recording sessions during these barren times for both big bands and composers who have anything to offer of genuine inventiveness or lasting substance.

Bringing the music of Thad Jones to a new generation . . ........2005-05-22

. . . certainly a worthwhile project, especially done as gloriously as here. One thing this disc proves beyond a doubt: many jazzers don't get old; they just get better. Featuring a collection of musicians that easily have more than a half-millennium of playing between them, this band reads like a who's who of early boppers: James Moody (sax), Benny Golson (sax), Hank Jones (Thad's brother, piano), Bob Brookmeyer (trombone), Richard Davis (bass), Roland Hanna (piano), Frank Wess (tenor sax, alto sax, flute), Jimmy Owens (trumpet, flugelhorn), and Mickey Roker (drums). And man, can they play! No mailing in their chops for these guys. It probably helps that they're completely familiar and comfortable with this music; some of them have been playing it practically forever.

And it doesn't hurt, either, that it's music of the absolute first rank, some of the finest jazz ever written. Thad Jones not only had an uncanny ear for a beautiful melody, he was a crack arranger and colorist. Thus, there's a constantly varied musical palette, a veritable luxuriance of sonic efflorescence, greatly adding to the variety and beauty of the melodies and harmonies.

Another thing: there's a stateliness and grandeur in Thad Jones' music often sadly lacking in this era of musical irreverence. Just listen to Roland Hanna's powerfully rendered five minute intro to Jones' most famous theme, "A Child Is Born," for a taste of what I mean.

Perhaps not for everyone, but surely no one who considers himself a jazz connoisseur should be without at least a sampling of one of the greatest composers/bandleaders in the history of jazz. And this is as good a place to start as any.

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