Track Listings (18) - Disc #1| All Artists: Randy Weston Title: Solo Duo & Trio Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: Milestone Original Release Date: 1/1/1954 Re-Release Date: 10/10/2000 Genres: Jazz, Pop Styles: Modern Postbebop, Bebop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 025218478526, 090204980024 |
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Randy Weston's distinctive compositions and pianism have long mined the music's African sources to enrich the idiom. This CD presents Weston at the very beginnings of his recording career, combining his first two LPs. The ... more » |
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Amazon.com Randy Weston's distinctive compositions and pianism have long mined the music's African sources to enrich the idiom. This CD presents Weston at the very beginnings of his recording career, combining his first two LPs. The earliest is a selection of eight Cole Porter tunes from 1954, played in duet with his regular partner, Sam Gill, a little-known bassist who provides solid and sympathetic foundations. The second combines a 1955 trio session, with Gill and Art Blakey on drums, and a series of solos from 1956. The most creative members of Weston's generation were strongly influenced by Thelonious Monk, and none more so than Weston. It was a thoroughly positive influence, though, and Weston was beginning to shape it into his own distinctive approach. It leads to the deliberated harmonic explorations and the acute sense of rhythmic displacement that he employs in probing the standards here, rethinking them at their structural core and adding thoughtfully placed splashes of often dissonant keyboard color. The trio blues "Zulu" is already a sign of Weston's later-developed interests in polyrhythms, and it shows a striking kinship with another great pianist of the time, Herbie Nichols. --Stuart Broomer Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsRoots Of A Champion. Michael F. Hopkins | Buffalo, NY USA | 03/31/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "From 1954 to 1956, these are the first recordings from one of the grandmasters of African American perspective, a genius of the acoustic piano, and one highly exceptional composer. These milestones are the debut recordings of Randy Weston, and they are a special treat for anyone who loves great Music in general, and Jazz in particular. With the recordings of Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, Cecil Taylor and Horace Silver, SOLO, DUO, AND TRIO features some of the most epic, versatile pianistry to emerge from the 1950s. Listen to Weston's hip-walking take on "Sweet Sue" (the spirit call of drummer Art Blakey forecasting the rituals to come), and associate the subtle dance and finger-popping sway with a new kid on the block! Too, Weston's originality as a composer and soloist is already intact. Listen to the infectious serenade of "Pam's Waltz", or the warrior's stroll of "Zulu", and you hear a musicmaker of the highest order. Employing intervals usually associated with Monk (especially with the "Rootie Tootie"- inspired cadence opening "Zulu"), Weston wields all tools with a lyrical grasp all his own. Listening further to Weston in solo performance, or his inspired duos with bassist Sam Gill interpreting Cole Porter, you are always in the presence of a highly original artist. It is a humble, forthright artistry which would evolve -over the decades- into the towering trailblazing which would conceive UHURU AFRIKA, THE HEALERS, AFRICAN COOKBOOK, and other bulwarks of globe-crossing Black genius. Weston's jubilant stride continues today through epic recordings such as IN THE SPIRITS OF OUR ANCESTORS and ZEP TEPI. His is a momentous stride full of character, dignity, and Wisdom's might. Hear how it all began." Shades of Herbie... D. Bush | Albuquerque,NM-USA | 12/12/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "WOW! Early Weston, showing influences of/on Monk & Nichols!
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