Drew Gress - 7 Black Butterflies
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Artist: Drew GressEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
- Rhinoceros
- Bright Idea
- New Leaf
- Zaftig
- Bas Relief
- Blue On One Side
- Wing & Prayer
- Low Slung / High Strung
- Like It Never Was
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Music Review: Erstwhile sideman steps out
Rating: 4 Stars
Drew Gress' follow up to his debut recording for Premonition Records: "Spin N' Drift," surpasses its predecessor by leaps and bounds. While the previous album felt timid and tentative, this album, with its expanded lineup, reaches further and pays off greater creative dividends in the process.
A stalwart session player in the Downtown NYC music scene, bassist Gress is a frequent collaborator with the likes of Tim Berne, Don Byron and Uri Caine. There is a stylistic similarity to his contemporaries found in these compositions, most notably the scores of Tim Berne, who also plays alto sax on this album. But where Berne favors a more episodic and discursive outlet, Gress finds plenty to work with in shorter frameworks and strong melodic hooks. Employing a veritable who's-who of Downtown session players including newcomers Ralph Alessi on trumpet and Craig Taborn on piano, not to mention in-demand drummer Tom Rainey, Gress and company execute a program of modern post-bop that is as tough as it is tender.
Tender was the operative word on Gress' previous release which seemed to fall short of what he and his cohorts are normally capable of. This session remedies that. Gorgeous ballad work can be found on "Wing And Prayer" and "Like It Never Was," but the bulk of the record flat out swings. "Bright Idea" and "Blue On One Side" combine catchy melodic hooks with tough post-bop improvising while "Low Strung/High Strung" and "Zaftig" build slowly to take the players out to the edges of tonality, a task these musicians handle with aplomb. The ensemble rapport is tight and virtually telepathic. They spend as much time listening as they do playing off each other, shifting tempos and timbral approach, rewarding the attentive listener with their acute call and response.
Intriguingly produced by David Torn, he manages to add a modernistic spin to the record without ever abandoning its decidedly acoustic nature. Horns occasionally dart back and forth in manic reverb stereo pans and periodic drum breaks erupt into blasts of nuanced distortion. Torn employs a production style that is more akin to breakbeat science than classic jazz, (but never so overwhelmingly as to cause any undue concern to more conservative minded jazz fans).
Drew Gress has spent quite some time in the sideman trenches of the metropolitan jazz scene and now has an album representative of his singular talents. A record worthy of repeated listens, it epitomizes the masterful balance between the composed and improvised, a defining feature of superior jazz records. "7 Black Butterflies" is Gress' strongest solo statement to date and easily on the short list for 2005's best ensemble recordings.
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