El Matador

El Matador Artist: Kevin Hays , Henderson , Wilson , Colley , and Stewart
Label: Evidence
Category: Music



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


UPC: 730182219920
EAN: 0730182219920
ASIN: B0000060DG


Release Date: 1998-03-17

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Tracks:

  1. El Matador
  2. Emperor Leon
  3. Like Sonny
  4. The Good Life
  5. The Brahmin's Son
  6. Nobilissima Visione
  7. Snake Eyes
  8. No Such Luck

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful album.......2000-10-11

This is my favorite recording by Kevin Hays. Kevin Hays is a phenomenal pianist, composer and arranger. The compositions and arrangements are beautiful. An inspiring album. Highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars SNAKE EYES.......2000-09-19

This CD is a welcome reissue of Kevin Hays' debut album as a leader, which was originally issued in Japan only by the Jazz City-label. Still in his early twenties at the time of this recording, Hays called up 3 other great young musicians, who were all still in the early stages of their careers : Steve Wilson on alto & soprano sax, Scott Colley on bass and Bill Stewart on drums. Rounding out the group on 4 tracks is tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, who was on the brink of making a major comeback as a leader in his own right, and seemed to spend the late 1980's and early 1990's showing up on other people's albums. Four originals by Hays and one by Wilson are added to two standards (Coltrane's "Like Sonny" and the less-covered "The good life" by Sasha Distel and Jack Reardon). One offbeat choice is "Nobilissima Visione" by 20th century composer Paul Hindemith, which is given a very jazzy workover, quite obscuring its origins. (Hays would later record another Hindemith composition "Interlude" on "Seventh sense", his first album for Blue Note.) Even at this early stage in his career, Kevin Hays delivers a great recording of contemporary jazz, more often than not playing a modest role behind and with the others members of the band. A solid group-effort !

5 out of 5 stars ....snap this up before it disappears.........2000-08-28

...like Kevin Hays' stellar 1994 debut with Blue Note, El Matador is a gem that belongs in every serious jazz fans' collection. If you are looking for something pure; music that is as real and honest as it gets, you cannot go wrong purchasing this album. Kevin Hays is about the only modern artist, in my opinion, that is able to breathe new life into standards, as well as compose tunes which are entirely worthy of being 'cannonized' into 'standard repretoir' .... I don't care what the critics say, this man is Jazz --period.

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