Layin' In The Cut

James Carter - Layin' In The Cut

Layin' In The Cut
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Artist: James Carter
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2010-11-10
Music Label: Atlantic
Soundtracks:
  1. Layin' In The Cut
  2. Motown Mash
  3. Requiem For Hartford Ave.
  4. Terminal B
  5. Drafadelic In D Flat
  6. There's A Paddle
  7. GP

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Music Review: j.c.'s funky blues fusion
Rating: 4 Stars

This is a fine funky album on its own terms, but one that fails to live up to its potential. With the amazing 2-guitar line-up I was expecting harmolodic fireworks, but instead found a surprisingly low-key set. Here are the band's harmolodic credentials: Tacuma played in Ornette's original Prime Time band, Weston played with a late '80s version of same, Johnson has been a member of Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society through the '90s -- Jackson the original Prime Time drummer -- and, Carter played on Jackson's WHAT SPIRIT SAY, released by DIW.

This project is an odd combination -- from the cover photo you might expect a smooth Grover Washington Jr.-style groove, but you'd be wrong -- its' a little too wild for that. But it never rises up in wild abandon either -- Ribot and Johnson are never unleashed. (Chip Stern to the contrary, there is nothing remotely boppish here, let alone "super-boppish," and nothing that sounds like Hendrix either.) Carter plays bari on "Motown," and soprano on "Requiem" and "Terminal B," otherwise sticking to tenor. His playing is engaging, but more subdued than we've come to expect, most recently on the superb "In Carterian Fashion." Johnson's "Terminal B" is the track that sounds most harmolodic -- a Decoding Society shuffle. Carter's "Paddle" also gets up out of the groove.

But the best tracks are laid-back, smoky grooves -- "Requiem" and "Drafadelic." That turns out to be the forte of this set. As long as you realize that, and are prepared for the first and last tracks being the weakest, you can appreciate this for what it is, and hope that now these cats have got to know each other, the next time they can really go at it!
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Layin' In The Cut by James Carter

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The collective electric improvisations that make up Layin' in the Cut showcase the intrepid, high-wire quality of James Carter's free jazz/super-bop side, much as the romantic acoustic arrangements of sibling release Chasin' the Gypsy focus on the saxophonist's lyrical talents. Drummer Grant Calvin Weston and electric bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma afford Carter a loose yet deeply centered rhythmic focus upon which to conceive a postmodern bridge between hard funk and modern jazz. While swing is clearly a second language here (the coda to "There's a Paddle" being an energetic example), wherever Carter dares to tread, he matches his ferocious energy with his band's grace and power--especially on the title cut and "Motown Mash."

Electric guitarists Marc Ribot and Jef Lee Johnson confer an open-ended brand of melodic fluidity and timbral flexibility, enabling the saxophonist to split the difference between John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix, as on "Requiem for Hartford Ave."--Ribot's pensive classical-styled intro and Johnson's bluesy retorts inspire alternating serene and shrieking soprano phrases. On "Terminal B," a trademark Tacuma-Weston harmolodic march leads to a psychedelic free-for-all. Their most amiable radio-friendly collective work comes on "GP," with Ribot's Wes Montgomery-styled inflections gently framing Carter's lyric tenor in Latin raiment. And from his wailing ascent up the scale on "There's a Paddle" to his gorgeous gospel-blues inflections on "Drafadelic in D Flat," Carter's unbridled tenor work is deeply compelling. While these arrangements rarely venture out of the straight vamp mode into the more harmonically expansive vistas of, say, Sam Rivers's big-band jazz-funk (try Inspiration or Culmination), Carter's potential for growth is unmistakable. --Chip Stern

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