Do Nothing Till You Hear from Us

Do Nothing Till You Hear from Us Artist: Buddy DeFranco & Dave McKenna
Label: Concord Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 013431485124
EAN: 0013431485124
ASIN: B00000IADT


Release Date: 1999-03-16

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Tracks:

  1. Finegan's Walk
  2. Skinnin' Rabbits
  3. Lucky To Be Me
  4. Out Of Nowhere
  5. You And The Night And The Music
  6. Something To Live For
  7. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
  8. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
  9. Speak Low
  10. Oh You Crazy Moon
  11. Gone With The Wind
  12. Easy Living

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Two living legends' last stand, with one of them still in fighting shape........2007-02-28

Though all three players are still with us, McKenna has been inactive for the better part of the new millenium while the octogenarian DeFranco has understandably cut way back on his playing activities. The guitarist on this 1999 date, Joel Cohn, is the son of the great tenor saxophonist Al Cohn. An active presence on the current New York scene, Cohn is equally effective in doubling DeFranco on the heads and in contributing tasteful and thoughtful solos. At the same time, McKenna is playing enough piano at this late date that I have to question the point of adding the third instrumentalist. Either make it a pure meeting of two giants, or open it up to at least a drummer and (with all due respect to McKenna's phenomenal left hand) a bass player.

DeFranco is still a virtuoso and a modernist, a clarinetist whose technique and ideas are set off to better advantage here than in the more manic sonic surroundings of Terry Gibbs. McKenna hardly qualifies as a "modernist,' but there are stories about God himself (Art Tatum) envying the pianist's ability to walk bass lines independently of his right-hand melodies. Since Buddy made sterling recordings with both Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson in the 1950s, it's quite appropriate (and fortunate) that he met up with McKenna.

The proceedings are highly musical and tasteful if a tad too polite and civil. Unfortunate, because DeFranco is playing with all of the old fire (dig his pyrotechnical clinic on "Out of Nowhere"), but McKenna is playing everything cautious and close to the vest, and Cohn knows his place. The session needed a Louis Bellson, Butch Miles, or Duffy Jackson to light a fire and kick some butt (my hunch is that McKenna could have risen to the occasion for one last time with a bit more "coaxing").

Strayhorn's "Something to Live For" may well be the highlight on the set, easily the best instrumental version I've heard of the tune (at least while the melody is under Buddy's care). For admirers of the clarinet, this recording is essential listening--a virtual clinic on jazz clarinet, whether ballads or burners.

4 out of 5 stars Lovely, elegant, superb swingin...........2005-09-17

I have only heard one cut from this date on radio and immediately perked up to find out who could weave such perfection. When I heard it was Buddy Defranco and Dave McKenna I thought, of course, who else! To this day in my opinion Buddy Defranco is totally unmatched in magic to render the purity of a great tune, in this case Ellington-Strayhorn's "Something to Live for", played here with total empathy,love and inner jazz by just the right pair. This date very remeniscent of Buddy's 1956 sessions with Art Tatum and Buddy Rich. We're so lucky to have guys of such quality playing today.
I've just added this one to my wish list.
-Bill

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