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 | Dave YoungTwo By Two - Piano-Bass Duets Volume ThreeLabel: Justin Time | Jazz | October 15, 1996Format UPC Order # Unit Price |
Credits Kenny Barron piano (on track 09) Cyrus Chestnut piano (on track 07) Tommy Flanagan piano (on track 03) Barry Harris piano (on track 10) John Hicks piano (on track 04) Oliver Jones piano (on track 08) Ellis Marsalis piano (on track 06) Mulgrew Miller piano (on track 05) Oscar Peterson piano (on track 01) Renee Rosnes piano (on track 11) Cedar Walton piano (on track 02) Dave Young double bass Production Credits | TracksNo Title Duration Excerpts 03 Milestones (Alternate Take) 00:07:15 04 Is That So? 00:06:38 05 Soul Eyes 00:06:12 06 Juicy Lucy 00:05:10 07 Lament 00:07:33 09 Think Of One 00:05:41 10 Don't Blame Me 00:07:33 11 Marie Antoinette 00:06:12 Liner NotesThat Dave Young is a world-class musician is a given. As I mentioned in the notes to Fables And Dreams, the Juno award winning 1993 session by the Dave Young-Phil Dwyer Quartet, my first meeting with his superb bass playing was on a 1975 recording he did with drummer Pete Magadini.As Dave Young told Ted O'Reilly, the annotator of Volume One in this series, "This is my greatest wish ... after all these years of playing music, to be able to play with these kind of 'guys'. Piano and bass is a comfortable musical setting for me: I can express myself. I don't have to fight volume and funny rhythm. If you have the right piano player, it's there. No worry about time or chords, you just play, and the music is there." Dave, on these sessions recorded between January 23 and June 19, 1995, has eleven pianists it would be any bassist's dream to work with, pianists ranging greatly in both age and geographical background. Canadians Renee Rosnes, Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones. John Hicks (who lived in Montreal for a time in the '60's) is from St. Louis, Barry Harris and Tommy Flanagan from Detroit, Kenny Barron from Philadelphia, Cyrus Chestnut from Baltimore, Ellis Marsalis from New Orleans, Mulgrew Miller from Mississippi (Greenwood) and Cedar Walton from Dallas. One may marvel at the consistency of sound here - considering we're dealing with one bassist, eleven very different pianists, seven sessions in three cities in just less than a five-month period. The important constant here, besides Dave Young, is Ian Terry, an expert engineer with very big ears. The music chosen is also a dream cross section of compositions which appeal to both the jazz musician and jazz lover. The Dorothy Fields -Jimmy McHugh piece "Don't Blame Me" is the only item from the field of American Popular Song, the remainder are either now or on their way to becoming jazz standards. We have "Lament" by J.J. Johnson, "Marie Antoinette" by Wayne Shorter and "Milestones" (an alternate take) by Miles Davis. Appropriately the other seven were composed by pianists. "In A Mellotone" (that was the spelling of the original release) is by Duke Ellington, "Think Of One" by Thelonious Monk, "Joshua" by Victor Feldman, "Is That So?" by Duke Pearson, "Soul Eyes" by Mal Waldron, "Count Two" by Oliver Jones and the delightful "Juicy Lucy" by Horace Silver. This is one where you can set your CD player at "random" and sit back and enjoy the beautiful music by any of the eleven duo combinations here. If you don't already own Two By Two - Volume I with Oscar Peterson, Cedar Walton, Tommy Flanagan, John Hicks and Mulgrew Miller or Two By Two Volume II with Ellis Marsalis, Cyrus Chestnut, Oliver Jones, Kenny Barron, Barry Harris and Renee Rosnes, you'll want to run out and pick them up and expand your enjoyment even more. Thanks "fellows" for the marvelous music! Len Dobbin, Friend to Jazz, Montreal, Canada |
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