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Artist:
Ralph Lalama Quartet
Label: Criss Cross
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 8712474106325
ASIN: B0000020MN
Release Date: 1994-04-06 |
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Tracks:
- Da-Lama's Da-Lemma
- Rainbow People
- The Breakthrough
- Kids Know
- Detour Ahead
- Wonderful, Wonderful
- Beautiful Moons Ago
- Pal Joey
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Customer Reviews:
Mr Lalama - If Super Man Played Tenor!.......2005-03-25
Yeah, that's what Ralph lalama sounds like - Superman Playing tenor - faster than a speeding bullet - able to leap tall arpeggios at a single bound. Seriously, this is an enormously satisfying tenor Quartet session. After listening to a guy like Lalama and the strength, logic and beauty with which he plays you wonder why he's not a more 'popular' name at least as far as tenor players go. No offense, but he blows 'superstar' Joe Lovano off the stage - he is an infinitely more accessible
and forthright jazz artist and tenor man. Playing with the kind of giant heart and swing that summons up another underated jazz genius - Tubby Hayes, Lalama blows with unrelenting ferocity and charm. Churning out,not chourus after chourus of the latest harmonic inventions, but notes and sounds that are subservient to a kind of jazz poetry last heard from the practioners of the heaviest and most poignant kind of jazz music-players like Mobley, Rollins, Hayes and Montgomery quickly come to mind. Detour Ahead is played with the kind of devasting heart that can put a lump in your throat 'Wonderful' has you dancing about marveling at Lalama's ability to hang that poetry on a string of rocket powered eighth notes. This is a tenor player worth listening to - over and over again.
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- Interplay ~ Bill Evans
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