Footprints

Karrin Allyson - Footprints

Footprints
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Artist: Karrin Allyson
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-04-18
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Something Worth Waiting For (Con Alma)
  2. All You Need To Say (Never Say Yes)
  3. Lightning (Lazy Bird)
  4. A Long Way To Go (Equinox)
  5. StrollinÂ?
  6. I Found The Turnaround (The Turnaround)
  7. Follow The Footprints (Footprints)
  8. Life Is A Groove (Jordu)
  9. A Tree And Me
  10. I CanÂ?t Say (Teaneck)
  11. But I Was Cool
  12. Give Me A Break (Unit 7)
  13. EverybodyÂ?s BoppinÂ?

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Music Review: An altogether classy, sweet and very artistic rendering of instrumental standards, giving them new vigor and life
Rating: 4 Stars

I discover Karryn Allison through this CD, and it is a happy discovery. I heard her rendition of Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" while shopping for books in a Barnes & Noble type bookstore in the Midwest, and immediately went over and bought the CD.

My personal favorites:

-Dizzy's "Con Alma" opens the CD beautifully. Her rendition adds a melancholy introspection to a tune that I have traditionally heard instrumentally with an entirely impersonal to serene feel. As a singer myself I have sung this tune with jazz choirs in churches in Harlem as an alternative to the usual hymn (it means "with [the] soul" in Spanish).

-"When some girl asks for your number, never say yes..." both the trio accompaniment of the two women on this cut of "All You Need to Say" and the lyrics are just about flawless. The choices of both of them in their improvisations compliment these qualities--and each other--beautifully. This tune makes me happy, the way a kid with a funny secret surrounded by cool acting adults feels.

-I am a nut for brilliant rhythmic improvisation, reconnecting jazz to its African roots. This cut of "Lazy Bird," with a deceptive syncopation which took me a minute to figure out, shows once again the talent of this trio.

-As I said I bought the entire CD for the cut of "Footprints." A song as perfectly written and performed as this one (Wayne's Shorter's African blues written for and performed by the second great Miles Davis Quintet of the sixties) is, as history has shown, often too intimidating to other instrumentalists let along singers to express via their own voice. Karryn makes this song her own, betraying (for lack of a better word) much of the African rhythmic pulse of the original without in actuality decaffeinating its essence. This one in particular has her and the feel established overshadowing the quality of the lyrics, yet the pianism and the muted trumpet, combined with the unexpected duo work of her and the pianist, makes it hauntingly original and beautiful enough to inspire poetry.

-And I cannot short shrift the presence of the Master himself: "Everybody's Boppin'" has some solo work from special guest Jon Hendricks that is joyfully exquisite.

Not every tune on the CD lives up to these gems...but then isn't that true of most CDs?

As I trained opera singer as well as composer/arranger studied in jazz, Karryn's vocal technique worries me at times. She's too young to show the effect of straining in her voice that usually accompanies chain-smoking singers almost twice her age. (Someone even makes a comment about this being one of her somewhat unfortunate trademarks on the liner notes of the CD.) Both her youth and this unnatural strain are evident in her pretty voice on some of the cuts. The right voice teacher could not only get rid of that without replacing it with an inauthentic sound but ensure that her very special artistry is around for another few decades.

All in all I have played this CD many times since buying it and enjoy it immensely. I recommend this--and her--highly, and will be picking up more of her work in the near future.

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On this CD, vocalist Karrin Allyson generously shares the spotlight with a trio of guests, one of whom comes in from an unexpected angle. Indeed, Chris Caswell doesn?t sing or play an instrument here: What he's done is set lyrics to some classic jazz instrumentals by the likes of John Coltrane, Nat "Cannonball" Adderley and Wayne Shorter. (A few of these tracks have been renamed--"a detail that has to do with royalties," as the liner notes explain.) The other two guests are Jon Hendricks (whose little whistled solo on "Strollin'" is rather cute) and the Pacific Northwest?based scat expert Nancy King. King shows up on 6 of the 13 tracks and the manner in which her and Allyson's voices-?both equally burnished and agile--dialogue, particularly on "Life Is a Groove (Jordu)" is unusually lovely. Add to the mix a tight core group comprised of Bruce Barth (piano), Peter Washington (bass), and Todd Strait (drums), and you've got yourself an excellent jazz album. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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