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Our DelightJames Moody, Hank Jones, Todd Coolman, Adam Nussbaum
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add to cartOther than a few tunes on IPO's recent CDs dedicated to the music of Thad Jones ("One More - Music of Thad Jones" and "One More - The Summary") this new recording will - amazingly - be the first time these two modern jazz giants have recorded together in their entire careers spanning seven decades.
Hank, the dean of jazz pianists in his 90th year, has never been more popular and is playing as well as ever. Moody, who turned 83 this year, is also playing brilliantly. The two of them together have lived the entire history of modern jazz and it comes through every measure of their music.
The closing track features 2007 Grammy nominee Roberta Gamborini, a brilliant young vocalist who is a protégé of both Moody and Hank and has been getting phenomenal reviews in her recent performances with both of them.
In keeping with IPO's basic approach, this is a straight-ahead, no-nonsense recording of standards and tunes that have long associations with the musicians, including modern jazz classics penned by Tadd Dameron, with whom Moody first performed along with Miles Davis in the late 1940s, and Dizzy Gillespie, with whom Moody played in big and small bands throughout the next 40 years. There are also some piano-tenor duets between Moody and Hank, including a version of Body & Soul that recalls the benchmark performances by Coleman Hawkins, with whom Hank first worked in 1948.
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Roger Kellaway & Eddie Daniels
(From BillBoard review of latest IPO release)
Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway have been both revered and sublimated by critics and listeners during their long and sometimes obscured careers. Make no mistake, though -- they are great musicians who somehow do not get the credit they deserve as true jazz masters. When Daniels has played more commercially oriented music, he's branded a sellout, while Kellaway's profile is so low-key, he's practically off the radar except when releasing a recording. Fact is, Daniels is as limber, facile, tuneful, and literate as any clarinet player on the contemporary scene, while Kellaway's understated brilliance is balanced by a sense of wonder and empowerment tempered by a veteran's common sense and deep wisdom. Both have made important strides in recent years to change minds and hearts with several very fine efforts in the modern mainstream idiom, but these duets recorded live at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles have to be a high watermark for them, individually and together... This is a wondrous duet date featuring extraordinary musicians taking chances and thankfully succeeding on all levels, not the least of which are in the enviable elements of pace, placement, and depth.
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