Tales from the Hudson

Michael Brecker - Tales from the Hudson

Tales from the Hudson
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Artist: Michael Brecker
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-09-10
Music Label: Grp Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Slings and Arrows
  2. Midnight Voyage
  3. Song for Bilbao
  4. Beau Rivage
  5. African Skies
  6. Introduction to Naked Soul
  7. Naked Soul
  8. Willie T.
  9. Cabin Fever

Music reviews of Tales from the Hudson

Music Review: The Stars Deliver
Rating: 5 Stars

Michael Brecker, who performs versatile tenor sax work, wrote most of the songs and assembled an all-star cast for this CD. Start with the rhythm section: That's Dave Holland on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums behind the grooves. Listen to "Song for Bilbao": If you think that sounds like a Pat Metheny song, you're right, and that is Pat with a screeching guitar solo; he also plays on all the other songs. McCoy Tyner, whose piano work I really liked on Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" and "Ole," endears himself to me again on two numbers: "Bilbao" above and the dynamic "African Skies." Joey Calderazzo is the piano person on the other tracks, including his own "Midnight Voyage," one of the highlights. "Tales from the Hudson" concludes on a feverish pace with "Cabin Fever," as Brecker's sax and other instruments rocket at a blistering pace. The tempos vary, but never the quality of the jazz, as this CD shows that when Brecker puts his mind to it, he can succeed.

Description of Tales from the Hudson

Because he has recorded so much mediocre commercial jazz, Michael Brecker's more ambitious ventures are often not taken as seriously as they should be. For Tales from the Hudson, Brecker assembles an all-star band of Miles Davis's 1970 rhythm section (drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Dave Holland), underrated pianist Joey Calderazzo, and guitarist Pat Metheny--and on two numbers, Calderazzo is replaced by McCoy Tyner. For this special occasion, Brecker has written five impressionistic modal pieces and has also included one composition apiece from Metheny, Calderazzo, and the late pianist Don Grolnick. The satisfying results should do much to bring Brecker his due as a fine composer and bandleader and a player with a hearty tenor tone and good instincts about where to find fresh territory in an improvisation. --Geoffrey Himes

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