It's wintry outside but up here in the BSH operational centre (my bedroom) suddenly it's spring!
At last, an album has come along that represents what I envisaged when I first set up this site all those years ago.
This is with no disrespect to the many albums that have graced these pages. However, apart from classic bebop reissues, most have been from either end of the spectrum, New Orleans/mainstream to hard bop/avant garde and beyond whereas an album such as this typifies where my heart is.
That it may seem strange that such an album should be led by a South Korean, New York based guitarist isn't really that strange when it turns out that he is a friend of another South Korean, New York based jazz musician, pianist Jinjoo Yoo, who impressed when she played the Black Swan a couple of years back with Chris Hodgkins.
As the title implies, the music is based around some of the compositions by Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro and Charlie Parker.
Cho's smooth clean lines bring to mind Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Kenny Burrell and, of course, Pasquale Grasso who mentored him at SUNY Purchase from where he graduated.
Mark's tenor is cucumber cool, Caceres lays down the harmonic foundation and Filipak's drums provide the rhythmic impetus needed for this delightful, without being nostalgic, take on the roots of modern jazz. Love it! Lance
Available via the usual online hucksters.
Relaxin' at Camarillo; Lullaby in Rhythm; Our Delight; Heaven's Doors Are Open Wide; Dexterity; A Tadd of Fat Birds; Billie's Bounce
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