An 18-year-old pianist very much inspired by the jazz piano tradition of such past giants as Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Red Garland and Sonny Clark, Goldberg pays respect to the past whilst modernising it for today's listeners, or so the blurb says. Personally, I find it closer to the former than the latter and I'm not complaining one itsy-bitsy bit. Good music is timeless.
Opening with his own Unholy Water, a number that includes a lengthy quote from Tadd Dameron's Good Bait, the trio continue through a fine selection of standards proving that the AABA song format still attracts the jazz player - perhaps even more so than the 12-bar.
There's a story behind Circles, the second of his two originals. As he tells it, his parents took him to Dizzy's to see the Bill Charlap Trio. Now, some years later he's playing and recording at Dizzy's with his own trio and, in the audience is Bill Charlap listening to him!
Wolfe and Kimmel are also prominent contributing to the overall sound and tempo as well as soloing effectively. Well worth checking out. Lance
Unholy Water; Wives and Lovers; It Ain't Necessarily So; An Affair to Remember; Let's Fall in Love; I Concentrate on You; Circles; Lujon (Slow Hot Wind); Compulsion.
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