Thursday, October 15, 2009

Alan SKIDMORE Quartet - East To West 1992


Alan SKIDMORE Quartet - East To West 1992
Label: Miles Music

Jazz

On this CD Alan Skidmore plays with two trios. On a recording made in Hong Kong he joins Stan and Clark Tracey with Roy Babbington, and at Ronnie Scott's in London he plays with Steve Melling, Mick Hutton and Bryan Spring. This is a CD full of energy and undisputed talent. From the classic 'Funky Day in Tiger Bay' to an outstanding version of 'Mr P.C.' the musicians on these recordings give their audiences an unforgettable experience. "If ever a jazz musician personified the ability to be carried through good times and hard times by the love of the job, it's Alan Skidmore...(this is his) love of the job at its most selfless. It's Skid doing what he does best, and that adds up to a hell of a lot of music."
By John Fordham.
**
After three decades of liaisons with legends such as Herbie Hancock and Georgie Fame, Skidmore only really needs his smouldering saxophone to get us drooling. As usual he massages and then assaults our ears with the kind of heady, devotional jazz that gets even the non-smokers in the audience gagging for a cigarette. His set comprises music written by John Coltrane and the band is obviously at home evoking his slow-burning dreamscapes and his fiery crescendos. As they strike up with Resolution you would swear that Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner are in the room, so authentic are those swelling sheets of sound.
By James Griffiths, The Guardian
**
Alan Skidmore's playing in After the Rain is a miracle of sustained poise, inspiration and feeling. Skidmore's huge and mellow tenor sax sound in the lower register and his control of the quiet singing tone in the often extreme upper register are juxtaposed to great effect on his superb rendering of melody on 'Too Young to Go Steady' and in his ensuing solo. His love of each piece shines through and while his main improvised phrases seem passionately sculpted, his quiet asides or afterthoughts have an extraordinary potency.
By Ian Carr, BBC Music Magazine.
**
Alan Skidmore- Tenor Sax
Bryan Spring- Drums*
Steve Melling- Piano*
Mick Hutton- Bass*
Also Futuring;
Stan Tracey- Piano
Roy Bobbington- Bass
Clark Tracey- Drums
**
01. Funky Day In Tiger Bay  13.14
02. Too Young To Go Steady  8.25
03. Green Chimneys  13.10
04. Crescent  11.06
05. Wise One  11.38
06. Mr. P.C.  9.56
**
NoPassword
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DLink
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06.Mr Pc
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