Meant to Shine

Meant to Shine Artist: Orrin Evans
Label: Palmetto Records
Category: Music



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


UPC: 753957208721
EAN: 0753957208721
ASIN: B00006LJ7Y


Release Date: 2002-09-24

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5 out of 5 stars What's up with Palmetto?.......2003-01-05

One or two gems could be a fluke, right? But what about three or four of the absolute best jazz albums released in a single year? That can't be a fluke, can it?

No, it can't.

OK, what are they?

1) Ben Allison, PEACE PIPE

2) Bobby Watson, LIVE & LEARN

3) Andrew Hill, BEAUTIFUL DAY

4) Orrin Evans, MEANT TO SHINE

Wow!! What a lineup! Who's the best? Darned if I know. But, Orrin Evans, the wonderful up-and-coming pianist, certainly holds his own in such exalted company.

A deeply thoughtful yet slyly playful keysman, Evans contributes mightly to the success of Bobby Watson's first disc for Palmetto, LIVE & LEARN. But as fine as he is in the Watson band, it's not until he gets his own chance to shine that his pianistic virtues come fully to the fore.

Take his solo on "Dawn Marie," for example. This gorgeous ballad builds on a simple single-note pattern, augmented by a sophisticated comping passage supporting a quite astonishing soprano sax solo by the inimitable but highly underrated Sam Newsome. In his deceptively simple solo, Evans achieves a poignancy seldom arrived at on jazz recordings coming from a much more mature musical perspective.

But it doesn't stop there. The very next cut, "Don't Write No S--- About Me," masters an uptempo grove to startlingly effectiveness. And the waltz-time follow-up, "Eternalten," continues the deep pianistic vibe established by the foregoing numbers.

Make no mistake, Orrin Evans is a jazz pianist of note. If I were you, I'd check him out before he becomes the new Herbie Hancock, or, perhaps, Jason Moran.

Music CD:

  1. Bags Groove: A Tribute to Milt Jackson ~ Mike LeDonne
  2. Bedroom Mixes, Vol. 1: Intimate Jazz for Intimate ~ Various Artists
  3. Heart Shaped Box ~ Rachel Z
  4. Where Were You? ~ Joey DeFrancesco
  5. Nice People ~ Jimmy Heath
  6. Songs I Learned At My Mothers Knee & Other Low Joints ~ Marty Grosz & Destiny Tots
  7. Fatha's Blues ~ Earl Hines
  8. Le Band ~ Alain Caron
  9. Going Down Slow ~ Ray Charles
  10. Planet Jazz ~ Fats Waller

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Night/Long Distance ~ Night

Singles A's & B's

Dead Lover ~ Faux Jean

In Concert ~ Medicine Head

My Generation: The Very Best of the Who ~ The Who

Walk on by: Songs That Inspired Generations, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists

Another Hit ~ Street Military

Ghetto Girls ~ Lil' Bow Wow

The Last Shall Be First ~ Sunz of Man