great jazz trio at the village vanguard rar

Carter's deeply resonant tone, insistent sense of groove, and impeccable way of combining unassailable time with harmonic responses to Jones' lyrical yet often unpredictable choices, transform even the more conventional bebop of Parker's 'Confirmation, making it relevant and timeless. While Jones' more mainstream approach keeps things closer to the centre, he's also open-minded enough to respond to Williams' more directed interplay on the medium-tempo swing of the album closer, Williams' 'Lawra. The material demonstrates just how consistently inventive this trio was, and these two evenings were especially magical.Ĭarter and Williams had a shared history as part of Miles Davis' more outward-reaching second quintet in the mid-'60s, so they had just the right combination of traditionalism and outside-the-box spontaneity to make this setconsisting of one Charlie Parker tune, one standard, a Davis tune, and a Williams originala potent blend of reverence and liberated musical thinking. Out of the six hours recorded, sufficient material was considered strong enough to result in not one, not two, but three albumsthe final instalment, At the Village Vanguard Again, will be released on August 23, 2005. Previous releases, including titles by Andrew Hill, Sheila Jordan, and Art Farmer have been uniformly strong, with Test of Time's DSD Mastering Process bringing out all the subtleties of the original masters, making them arguably the definitive issues.Īmongst the strongest of the first batch of releases was At the Village Vanguard, culled from two evening performances at the legendary New York City club in February of 1977 by arguably the best, but sadly short-lived incarnation of pianist Hank Jones' longstanding Great Jazz Trio featuring bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. With Test of Time continuing its archival reissue series of '70s Inner City and East Wind label recordings previously only available as expensive Japanese imports, this is a great time to be thinking about taking out a second mortgage on the home.

Great jazz trio at the village vanguard rar