Live at Rocco

Live at Rocco Artist: Bill Cunliffe
Label: Azica
Category: Music



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


UPC: 787867222126
EAN: 0787867222126
ASIN: B00007K2FD


Release Date: 2002-11-26

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Tracks:

  1. Ain't Nothin' Nu
  2. Kingston
  3. Lakeside
  4. Unknown Flowers
  5. Hope
  6. Quirk of Fate
  7. Crepuscule With Nellie
  8. Fubar

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Vivid and smart modern jazz.......2003-05-11

Pianist Bill Cunliffe wasn't familiar to me before I heard this disc; on this showing he's both a fine pianist & a strong composer & arranger. The band is a sextet for the most part--in addition to the leader, it has Clay Jenkins on trumpet, Chuck Manning on tenor, Alex Iles on trombone, Jeff D'Angelo on bass & Joe LaBarbera on drums; flutist Holly Hofmann guests on two tracks. The pieces are squarely within mainstream jazz conventions but don't have the deadening retro feel that afflicts a lot of mainstream jazz discs: the music's too smart & lively in delivery & too personal in feel for that. There are a couple covers of Thad Jones and Monk tunes (the latter, "Crepuscule with Nellie", is a fairly straightforward transcription of Hall Overton's chart for Monk's Town Hall date, though Cunliffe has added a few telling fillips to it) plus six quite varied originals. Hofmann is a real bonus on her two tracks, & this is probably the only occasion where I've actually wished for more, rather than less, flute on a jazz album: bumping up the band to a seven-piece really does take it up an extra notch, especially given her vibrancy of sound & confident improvising. Be that as it may, there's certainly nothing wrong with the sextet tracks either, which run from the yearning "Hope" to the funny closing blues "Fubar", each of them just a little bit out of the ordinary. A very enjoyable disc all round.

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