Label: Enja Justin Time
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 068944330928
EAN: 0068944330928
ASIN: B0000D9PGI
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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Label: Enja Justin Time Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 068944330928 EAN: 0068944330928 ASIN: B0000D9PGI Release Date: 2003-10-21 |
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The most inspiring music I have ever heard. Period........2005-12-16
Accessible AND Edgy Small Jazz/Funk Orchestra Music.......2004-09-22
Best jazz musician in years.......2004-08-07
please try this album.......2004-06-08
Josh Roseman--musical chameleon.......2003-10-25
Let's start at a most unlikely place, the liner notes. Written by one Osiris Black Edgar, they feature phrases like, "glorious works of unadulterated creativity channelled through souls open to the whisperings of otherworldly muses." Ahem. But not to worry. Osiris Black Edgar has his tongue firmly implanted in his cheek, even as he brilliantly delivers over-the-top faux-profound cultural sermons.
Then let's go to the band (we WILL arrive, eventually, it is hoped, at some rationale for this unrestrained rant). Who else has three guitarists--maybe THE three greatest living jazz guitarists--as sidemen? OK, Adam Rogers and Ben Monder are naturally brilliant choices. The kicker? Liberty Ellman, closely associated with that Asian iconoclast keysman, Vijay Iyer. Then there's Barney McAll on Keys, who's fabulous debut, Release the Day, was one of the very finest discs of 2002, but still a relatively obscure player. The list of sideman just goes on and on: Billy Kilson, from the Dave Holland Quintet, on drums; Mark Feldman, violin; Mat Maneiri, viola; Russel Gunn, trumpet; J.T. Lewis, drums; Chris Potter, saxes; Ben Perowsky, percussion; Peter Apfelbaum, winds; Peck Almond, trumpet & flute. Not your usual sessionmen--not by a long shot. Talk about a rich sonic texture! All told, there're 23 different players, divided into the core band and three subordinant tiers. Amazingly, everyone seems to understand his role; there's no unseemly sonic tripping over the other fellow's schtick.
Then there's the vibe: Hip, yet thoroughly accessible; modern, but fully cognizant of The Tradition; sonically dense, but crystal clear. That may be Roseman's greatest accomplishment--to integrate such a hugely varied selection of players and styles into one seamless, beguiling, mesmerizing aural palette.
And how about the arrangements? In this year of gloriously rich musicscapes, e.g., Dave Douglas' Freak In, Wayne Shorter's Alegria, and Michael Brecker's Wide Angles, Treats for the Nightwalker may be the most varied, daring, and eclectic.
The songs, save the short opener by Peter Apfelbaum and the Bacharach/David tune, "Long Day/Short Night," are all Roseman's. His originals are also by far the strongest and most interesting, which marks a departure from Cherry, where the best cuts were covers. Many influnces--from bebop to funk to hip hop to oriental to free jazz to anthemic rock to world jazz to power pop to psychedelia--fade in and out of the procedings, all masterfully integreted into this incredibly tasty gumbo.
With Treats for the Nightwalker, Josh Roseman emerges as one of the most profound and provocative nu jazzers of the third millenium. Do not even THINK about passing this one by.
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